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OK...........You guilted me into it. Here is a picture of her (not in front of my car though, I will keep looking for a good shot of that) Enjoy!

Originally Posted by Mr Blue

OK...........You guilted me into it. Here is a picture of her (not in front of my car though, I will keep looking for a good shot of that) Enjoy!

Gee Didn't she star in Bay Watch?
We need our photo shop guys to put her in your T!

Well this has been buging me for a couple of years(trying to remember how to crop one picture into another), so Don you inspired me to do a hack job using windows paint. Not the best but it was fun.
Here's your bikini car babe(had to search all over this site for a picture of the blue T)

I guess dad hasn't had time to teach his son how to pick up real bikini clad babes. It's a skill worth teaching if you want to share the wealth.
Dad maybe mad he's not getting the trophys, but the trophy girls.
BradC

Don. I've told you over and over again............STOP POSTING PICTURES OF MOM ON THE INTERNET!! Now everyone will see why I left her.


Don

(I've got about 4 jokes here, and I can't use a d*** one of them!!)

That's a good one Don!

Actually, she left me. Something about some drummer in some little rock band.

Don

Ah the tattoo type that shoots home videos! Maybe we should photoshop her into the Black T just for old time sake!

The night we talked about your problems with the powder, I have to say it just made me, and my wife SICK!
As someone who has been screwed by a powder coater, then becoming a powder coater and fixing my own screw ups, I know first hand that both suck big time.

I think there is nothing worse than looking at a customer and trying to fix a problem, as a former customer (of powder coating) that has delt with b.s. I know how the customer feels, our old powder coater would do our parts when he felt like it, poor quality, to top it off he did not really even care.

So we sold a few cars (We started off as a fiberglass car dealer/builder) and bought a Powder coating set up strictly to handle items for our products. Next thing you know we have a few successes, word of mouth, and 5 yr's later we have a nice small powder coating company, and enjoy helping people realize their dreams, even if we are now just a small part of that.

I really wish you guys were in Ohio, you are like a dream customer, you followed all the advice I shared, and did a wonderful job of filling, and sanding everything by the looks of the pictures.
I really hate to hear of someone having a bad experience with powder, when done correctly it look beautiful, same as painting (just a little harder to work with in terms of body work.... as you know)

Didn't mean to go on, and on... I'm a blabber mouth sometimes

Ultimately I am sorry to hear about your bad experience, and hope you get her fixed, and on the road soon!!!

Josh

Yeah, I wish your shop were closer too. Well at least the frame is back from the shop and they did a great job of sandblasting all the powder coating off. That things been blasted so many times it should be getting smoother and smoother.

I think we are going to the shop today and DA it and get it ready to deliver to the body shop for paint. We can also start evaluating what parts need taken back for complete stripping and which ones we can simply peel and blow the clear off of. Dan fooled around with a couple of parts the other night and got the clear off, the black actually looks pretty good under it. What surprised me was how thick the clear it, the stuff looks just about like shrink wrap new items come packed in. Is it supposed to be that thick?

On thing that will have to come apart for complete blasting is the rear end assembly. For one thing they masked off too big a section where the pumpkin goes and some bare metal shows, so it looks like we will be pulling that thing apart today too. We had a sandblaster in at work the other day doing a boat bottom and I told him we were having powder coating blasted back off. He said he doesn't envy the guy doing it, takes a lot of time and concentrated blasting to break through. Hope the powder coater remembers this the next time and doesn't ever want to go through it again.


Don

yeah, powder clear build usually about 2-4 mils thick (closer to 2 mils is better), which is great when it adheres to the base coat, as it has a deep European luster, it's great!
Yeah, I have a empty 3rd member we use to mask ford rears, works great to eliminate poor masking.
Sadly I have learned some of these lessons the coater you used the same way, fortunately not at the magnitude they did.
Yes we media clean, and blasting powder SUCKS!!!!

Josh

Josh, we were going to have him powder coat almost all the way down on the gasket surface where the pumpkin goes so we get black all the way. Any harm in doing that, will gasket sealer seal? I figured we could scuff it a little if needed around the gasket only.

Hehe, he had one of his guys in the blast booth two straight days trying to get ours off, you bet it is tough.

Don

Sorry, I should have explained more.
I mask the rear end, the lay the third member, run my razor around the edge, remove the third member, and free hand about 1/4-1/2" smaller to make sure there is no visual bare spots.

I have coated, and reassembled maybe 20 or so ford 9", and 8" and never had any leaks, using a gasket only not liquid type (to messy looking for my taste)

with blasting you can only blast it one coat at a time, or you will cause uneven spots on the metal. Our media blast system will remove the powder, and the metal at the same rate, have to be very careful!

Josh

Josh, the day I sat in my car watching the guy blast on his frame he was really poring the coal to it, so I wouldn't be surprised if he didn't blast a lot of metal away too. That is my fear, and it is going to take a pretty good coat of filler all over it to get it smooth, I'm afraid.

Tonight we concentrated on getting the parts all separated and seeing which ones needed recoating and which ones we could simply take the air nozzle to and blast off the clear. We were able to salvage a few of the parts, like the front backing plates and the springs because the clear came right off and left a nice smooth black surface underneath. Then we disassembled the rear end and are taking that, the backing plates, and a bunch of other parts back tomorrow am and have a talk with them. They owe us big time, we are probably going to eat a lot of money we already spent for stuff that got blasted off and body shop bills to get it sanded. All in all he is probably out $ 1000 by the time you factor in all the dremels, sanding supplies, etc that we had to buy to get the thing straight enough for the first go round. He was also charged extra for the clear coat and that is now sitting on our garage floor, in pieces. I is also setting us back a month or more.

But......................it would have been a lot worse if we discovered the problem later after the car was assembled. That would have been VERY bad. We are still on the fence as to powder coat or have the frame painted. If the powder coater can find someone to sand the Tiger Drylac smooth, I'll order some more and let them have at it. Our body shop guy never wants to see it again.

Don

I have been watching this drama unfold with great interest. I have never had anything powder coated yet, but it has interested me for a long time and we have two local powder coaters here that both have good reputations. After watching what you guys are going through, however, I think I will limit any future powder coating to pieces that can be unbolted. I have been skeptical of powder coating a frame to start with because if I needed to add anything later on (like a bracket or a gusset somewhere) I want to be able to spot in the finish. Your ordeal has given me additional reinforcement that I will keep on painting my frames...