- 1. Aaahhhh Painting... (score: 1)
- Author: "DrMayf" <drmayf@teknett.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 10:47:17 -0700
- I am a pretty fair welder. I even managed to get lexan wind screen made. I am a pretty good fabricator. But I cannot paint for sour owl poop. I just tried, for the very first time ever, to do some pr
- /html/land-speed/2003-06/msg00121.html (8,621 bytes)
- 2. RE: Aaahhhh Painting... (score: 1)
- Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 13:35:35 -0500
- If it's anything like zinc chromate primer, it's supposed to go on really thin. Zinc chromate is supposed to be semi-transparent but a common mistake is to put on so much that it looks like yellow-g
- /html/land-speed/2003-06/msg00123.html (9,153 bytes)
- 3. Re: Aaahhhh Painting... (score: 1)
- Author: John Goodman <ggl205@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 12:17:43 -0700 (PDT)
- Mayf, DuPont makes a one part etching primer that works pretty well. Don't get it on finish coat or it will cuttle. I had the bare frame of my lakester painted with the stuff and has held up for almo
- /html/land-speed/2003-06/msg00125.html (9,387 bytes)
- 4. RE: Aaahhhh Painting... (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 03:42:32 -0500
- you can still get zinc chromate? I proposed it recently for a job in the petrochemical industry and thought everyone in the conf. room was gonna have a heart attack. In this industry "environmental"
- /html/land-speed/2003-06/msg00126.html (9,194 bytes)
- 5. RE: Aaahhhh Painting... (score: 1)
- Author: "Albaugh, Neil" <albaugh_neil@ti.com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 15:58:46 -0500
- I'm hoarding my last few cans of the stuff, but you're right-- it's impossible to find the old stuff now. There are primers that are alleged to be similar in the last Aircraft Spruce catalog that I
- /html/land-speed/2003-06/msg00130.html (9,952 bytes)
- 6. RE: Aaahhhh Painting... (score: 1)
- Author: "Russel Mack" <rtmack@concentric.net>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 06:22:49 -0500
- yeah, I've played with a lot of mercury, in a lot of ways. Just bought a bunch the other day-- in my new manometers. I practically grew up thinking you couldn't paint aluminum w/o zinc chromate prim
- /html/land-speed/2003-06/msg00136.html (9,162 bytes)
- 7. Re: Aaahhhh Painting... (score: 1)
- Author: Want1937hd@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 19:15:42 EDT
- Years ago when I was doing all the body work at a restoration shop I used Dupont Prepairacoat on the aluminum bodies. Worked real well, it's off the market now, don't know what people use on aluminum
- /html/land-speed/2003-06/msg00139.html (7,765 bytes)
- 8. Re: Aaahhhh Painting... (score: 1)
- Author: "atrav" <atravis@spacey.net>
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 21:11:08 -0400
- Aircraft Spruce sells it, or something similar. So does Eastwood. Here in Florida the local marine shops are full of it, EPA be damned- there's salt water to deal with! ;o) FWIW, I favor Dupont for m
- /html/land-speed/2003-06/msg00142.html (8,251 bytes)
- 9. Re: Aaahhhh Painting... (score: 1)
- Author: LGMCAFEE@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 23:32:30 EDT
- << Anybody have any really good tips? Like take it to the paint shop? Or something similar? I need help. >> May I painted my truck at home and it turned out pretty good. I know this if you want a nic
- /html/land-speed/2003-06/msg00150.html (7,996 bytes)
- 10. Re: Aaahhhh Painting... (score: 1)
- Author: "gary baker" <lsr350@hotmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 16:44:57 +1000
- Mayf painting is one of the easy things at least for me ,years ago I did 4 years of night school and got me a trademans ticket in panel beating ( body repair ) and spray painting etch primer needs t
- /html/land-speed/2003-06/msg00156.html (8,850 bytes)
- 11. Re: Aaahhhh Painting... (score: 1)
- Author: "gary baker" <lsr350@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 20:14:35 +1000
- fine to use "just plain ol primer " as long as the substrate is clean rust and oil free, most supposed professional paint jobs do just that I recomend that you forget the 2pac paints unless you have
- /html/land-speed/2003-06/msg00244.html (8,314 bytes)
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