Thread: Paint

You’ll get better you sound motivated and tough. Anyone that picks Rovers/ Citroen’s and Muay Thai falls into that category Good you can keep working I moved from doing what I loved on upwards cause I knew my back couldn’t tolerate lifting 200 kg bell bottom door up then dragging my partner in much longer.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

How does falling down cut a thumb like that ... I tried to cut mine off with one of those feathertouch knives.... I still have the big scar. I cut nearly to the bone ( and 3/4's of the way through the tendon). I could see the big cut in the tendon moving up and down when I moved the thumb.

seeya,
Shane L.

When I fell it seems I used my hands to try and break my fall but some how my hand twisted sideways and my full body weight fell on the outstretched point of my thumb which tore it off my hand.

The surgeon botched the repair job and my thumb is now just an inanimate digit. I can't move it at all and have little feeling in it. The bones in my hand were all scrunched up in the fall and are still like it today. The medical association moved on the surgeon for performing unauthorized surgical techniques so he closed his practice and disappeared over night.

Originally Posted by DoubleChevron

I have to stop being such a clutz .... how can someone that sits on there arse for a living damage themselves so often

seeya,
Shane L.

That just blew me away. You...a shiny arse...... I would never have picked it.

How do people just sit around and watch tv all the time .... I'm going bloody crazy... So I thought i'd have another go (you don't have to be stupid... but it helps).


I used the soup ladle to mix up the primer .... what a ripper of an idea.... You see, 4 scoops of paint, 2 of reducer ... and one of hardener means you get the exact amount of paint, but you don't need to measure ....



Anyway, my gun is this arnold hvlp gravity feed gun that has been abused and left sitting arond in cupboards for probably 15years. Once again, for the first time ever, I hang a sheet of paper out and tested it. The fan on it doesn't spray perfectly (one side is stronger than the other side...). But the bit that surprised me is I had to drop the pressure at the gun back to 20psi to get and even spread of paint ( I though these guns were supposed to run at 30 -> 35psi ).

anyway, I fought and stuggled with the bastard... pretty much ended up laying on the ground with the bastard of a gun between my legs trying to get the airline on .... Why in the flying **** is this so god damn hard....

Anyway, it laid down the primer absolutely lovely for about 90seconds .. .then I lost air pressure ... I spend bloody AGES swearing ... I checked everything, then heard the compressor cycle off ( WTF ) ... the compressor is an old aussie made clisby I bought when I was about 16years old. Its the only tool I've ever bought that always just works (its never even needed the belt adjusted in all these years). Anyway, I ended up unplug that god damn air hose from the gun... No air there, plenty at the filter where the line is plugged in ??? WTF ...

Then I couldn't get the gun back onto the airline .... AAARRRRRhhhhhh... No I didn't burn the god damn thing.



check this out, I have no idea where that fitting came from, but it's not quite right ... (now just imagine someone trying to clamp the gun, full of paint under one arm, while trying to unscrew the fitting with the other hand .... Only the filter at the gun unscrews and comes apart. Now I'm sitting on the ground, trying to hold it all together under my arm and with my legs while I try to get it back together ( Do you get the idea I just love making everything a challenger for myself ).

anyway, now the bloody gun plugs on easily ... but no air... FFS, I follow the air line back from the gun and end up outside .....



and end up a the compressor I got from the tip. This thing only restarts about 50% of the time as the one way valve in its line doesn't always work (and the compressor can't start against 80psi of pressure).... So I've hooked the lines up backwards, my mask is supposed to go to this compressor (so it always runs ... supplied *just* enough air so I can breath without getting paint fumes) ... only I had the gun hooked to it instead, and it cycled off, then tripped its overload switch when it tried to restart ... so no air for the spray gun ... Do you know we do this **** for fun ?



anyway, the spray booth works absolutely brilliantly ... it draws all the overspray right away.



I only ended up putting 1 coat of paint on. that valspar gives incredible coverage from what I could tell.










I'll have to check tomorrow night, but it seems to have gone down so nicely, its level with next to no orange peel, it doesn't seem to have ran anywhere .... And wow its bloody shiny. I can't get a decent picture as the camera just washes out.

seeya,
Shane L.

Thats a nice colour...

I like the Tuscan blueyou’ve made some good progress

Just for you Michael....
no pressure!

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Pedro I couldn’t open the link it opens in Bahasa cause I’m in Malaysia gotta work to pay for these things

That looks great Shane. Looking forward to seeing the finished product. Get a wriggle on eh........