Thread: Paint

Well I have done a lot of .... er, "learning" today. Its always good to learn new stuff right




The primer layed down really nicely... But I'm going to have to work out how to do the colour on the roof. Even with the car sitting on its brake rotors. I need to use a ladder, and I'm struggling to reach the middle without banging the ladder into the doors. Using a ladder, I can't walk the side of the car either. So I'm going to be painting the roof in 4 sections ( moving the ladder twice on both sides). I'm not sure how it'll blend the paint where I'm stopping in the middle.... I found I need to wrap the hoses around myself and be **really** careful with them not to have them touching.

I mixed a "doubled" batch of paint.... that is 8 soup ladles of paint ... about a litre. I found the gun wasn't spraying to well towards the end of the batch .... hmmmm.... Maybe it needs a bigger tip than the 1.4 suggested. I mixed up a 2nd batch .....





The gun kept cutting out and splattering .... In desperation I pulled the gun to bits and found a bit of paint "slime" in the needle and seat .... Hmmm.... So I cleaned the gun and put some more paint in .... 5seconds later... splattering again (same bloody spot above) .... and no paint coming out ...... AAARRRRhhhhh... Pull the gun apart ... paint "slime" again ..... It finally clicked what is going on ... About now the kids arrived in the door of the shed.... I must have been, er, exclaiming very loudly about the "learning" I was experiencing in the shed



The paint ... I'd mixed up the next batch into the same measuring container as the last .... What has happened is the tiny bits of paint coating the bottom and sides of the mixing container has "activated" and is through the mixed paint as strings of "slime" ...... I had to discard about 1litre of mixed paint ( Damn, I only have 4litres here .... ).

So I cleaned the gun again ... And mixed up some more paint in a new container and kept going ... I noticed occasionally the gun would throw a small "lump" of paint. What is happening is the paint is building up on the guns fan .... Basically with the 2pack paint I need to pull that gun down after each couple of pots of paint and clean it in reducer.



I've got it all soaking in reducer. I'm slowly learning though. I MUST clean this bloody thing while I'm painting. Its not like dulon where the fresh thinner through it keeps it clean.

Other stuff I learned also ....



I can't do this **** again ... All of the benches and junk need to be gone. every time I filled the paint gun and tried to clean it .... I was getting hung up trying to dodge around everything and the air hoses kept tangling. That is another thing I need to do. Clean the two air lines and tape them together so they can't tangle.

Also, the gun started to spray badly towards the last bit I sprayed from the 3rd lot I mixed up... I need to mix the paint as I go. What is happening is the paint is kicking before I can spray it all on and thickening out .... that's is why I've been struggling. Just a paint gun full at a time I need to mix. (fast reducer and activator I'm using for the primer).









Look how nicely that vaspar primer layed down! For cheap **** its applying really nicely. You really need to hose it on though. I've got everything on the gun as wide open as it'll go.

seeya
Shane L.

You got some 20 litre oil drums and a couple of scaffold planks? Set the oils drums up where each wheel arch is then use a plank between them to spray the roof - you can the (carefully) walk end to end to spray the roof and it's simple and easy to move the planks behind you when you get to the sides. Easy if you have the bits as always though, I know not everyone has a couple of big planks kicking around.

I have my Tommy Tucker plasterers trestle for that, 2 meters long and goes up to 900mm (same height as a 3 step ladder). I painted a roof once but I was swapping a sunroof over to a normal non sunroof on a Rangie I owned years ago. I just painted mine outside it was acrylic paint so neo need for a booth, the QLD weather was a bonus though (about July-Au, 22 degrees not like this place!!)

Trav

Now there's an idea... I wonder if I can walk a plank wrapped in two air hoses without falling off

The wheels are back on ... and the rangie wheeled out. All this crap takes so much time.





I wonder if I can setup the ladder as a "plank" to walk and do the roof. It's going to be a PITA.... I was at full stretch to paint the bonnet at waist height ( and I'm 6' tall).



The rest is primed now. Lets just hope its enough paint after wasting that mixed 500ml... 4litres would have been the perfect amount if I hadn't wasted a chunk of it ....

As I said 'carefully' - don't want you going arse up and injuring yourself any more. 😊

Originally Posted by dungarover

I have my Tommy Tucker plasterers trestle for that,.............
Trav

No stilts Trav?

DL

Nope no stilts, I tried dads a couple of times years ago and fell off both times, I'll stick to planks!!

Trav