my first time painting with a gun

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Small project this, just spraying up some panels/fairings for toms mo-ped.

They are currently yellow and silver , and have a few bits that need sanding out, Currently they are preped down using red scotch , and where needed 180grit followed by 400.

pics will follow.



decided to throw some high build on the panels to hide various scratches etc, here are a few pics of panels preped, and the baby compressor im using for the job.

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And some with the high build applied, i had the gun setting wrong at first and the paint wasnt atomising at all and just speckling the surface, an adjustment on the gun though and it went on quite well, next they will be guide coated and flatted back ready for the orange.

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Well time was pushing on , and my friend needed these panels back as his ped engine was almost rebuilt.

The weather being freezing was far from perfect and made spraying both hard and cold.. The parts were more likely to drip etc but we managed to get the paint on and shiny, however there was one panel that reacted and a few drips on certain panels. Chances are we may flat these panels down come spring and give them one more blow over but for now it looks ok..

Btw this is pretty much my first time at spraying anything larger than a battery tray.

I speant many many hours flatting all highbuild/guide coat down, the panels were mint no scratches etc

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I decided to try and get santa in on the act to give me a hand in the make shift spray booth... he didnt show, bloody Santa !

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The paint mixing tray :P
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The panels then went orange
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I tried to get a few photos to show the reaction, i believe it was a very very small area of silicon where a bike shop previous used a silicon sealant to adhere somthing to the panel, very anoying

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just to add they didnt just appear orange.. i did actually have to spray them :P
I first attacked the hard to reach areas and got a dry coat on the whole panel, then i covered and then again, i had to give it a final top coat to help cover a few areas that were transparant , mainly on the front panel that was silver before.

got a couple of pics of them fitted.

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cheers :) , nice ae86 in that sig btw.

I had a few reactions as you can see but once cured these were barely noticable and for the sake of a moped that will probably get bashed about within a week it would do :).

For my car ill be wet flatting it all back and give it a real good buff up.
 
bledd. said:
You know rocks would work just as well as those wheels for keep the tarpoline down :p
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lol i just happened to have them kicking about, reason i used them is they were clean so i knew once i fired up the spray gun it wouldnt blow all the dirt and crap you would get on a couple of boulders :)
 
I got a devilbiss gti trantech 110, 1.3 tip and needle. unfortunatly i was only using a baby 50l compressor but it did the job..

paint ratio was 2:1 with 5% thinners, it was very cold so was quite difficult to judge between coats on flash times..

Ill soon be painting my 306 white.
 
haha , nah the wheels are knackered, they are ready to be weighed in , along with a couple of engines and other bits that have passed there sell by date :)
 
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