I had enough of paint stripper when I was in the antique business!
When I stripped a 67 Austin Mini panel rhd I used my air drill w/7"
sanding disc. It turned out to be 90% rust free & wasted effort!
Tram on Samba has a good thread on painting his t34. He painted over
a lot of original paint w/skim coat of bondo. He mixed like 25%
clear/reducer in his paint! It sounds like a good approach to me, and
I'm going to follow Tram's lead? You've probably seen Charlie skim
coat all Boyd Coddington's hot rods before he went to work for Chip
Foose? We have to copy one of these Pros since we can't afford to pay
them! I'd think twice about taking it ALL down to bare metal,
although the sander will do it too! Try your sander on just the rusty
spots first, and maybe just roughup the good paint?
On 6/3/07, Keith Park <topnotch@nycap.rr.com> wrote:
Ahhh... yea, I watch those resto shows when the painter starts work to look
for clues, if they don't speed the darn video up so much that I cant tell.
Ill give it a try with the decklid first, see how it comes out.
Thanks,
Keith
On 3 Jun 2007 at 17:08, Keith Park wrote:
> I was told once that I needed an agitator to spray that stuff, but now
> they say that with an HVLP gravity fed gun you don't. Any experience
> or thoughts on this??
I think the only time you'd need an agitator would be when spraying
metallic paints from a pressure pot. With a siphon feed gun, the
movement of the gun while painting will keep the paint mixed. If you
watch a good painter, you may also notice that he'll keep the gun in
motion even when he's not spraying. He's just mixing.
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