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I sure wish that I could have found that "stuff" before I did my frame but my 'coater said that there was really nothing that he really liked, that every product seemed to have some level of problems. Regardless, my TCI frame had very nicely ground welds, especially in the very visible front and whatever I put down had at least the rough edges shaved off before it went to be done and the coating softened them even more. Then of course, mine is a full fendered car and very few welds aft of the firewall can be seen anyhow

Don, I hope you document the before, during and after nicely for us as this has been a subject of much interest by many

Don, I hope you document the before, during and after nicely for us as this has been a subject of much interest by many[/QUOTE]


I will try to take pictures all through the process. Dan is still leery that the powder coat will not come out as good as he wants, but we figure if worst comes to worst we will scuff and spray it. At least it will have a good base that should be pretty good at rust prevention and the powder should get back into all those spots we could not reach with a gun. When I picked up the frame yesterday they had pictures on the wall of previous jobs they had done. Lots of motorcyles and a few cars. One car in particular was the undersides and they did all the parts in several colors. It looked very show worthy, so I am more optimistic than he is.

We'll see.


Don

We spent today doing our very least favorite thing...........sanding and grinding. It took about 10 hours, but we got the newly sandblasted frame smooth and clean enough that we could start applying the filler. I would like to say the Drylac stuff is easy to work with, but it isn't. First of all, it is very heavy and dense, so it spreads a little on the thick side. And it is VERY hard to get off of you when it starts to cure. We went through quite a bit of laquer thinner and a bunch of rags because it got all over everything. We used both kits up, but got most of the frame side rails skim coated.

The directions say if you air dry it the filler takes 2-3 days to dry for sanding. It also said you have 4 hours working time, but it was starting to kick after about an hour, so we had to work pretty fast. I hope it sands like the rep from the company said, but it seems a lot like JB weld to me. We are going to sand most of it back off, and if it is tough to sand we have our work cut out for us.

Anyway, here are some pictures of when we got started and what we ended up with just before we applied the filler. I didn't want to take any pictures after the filler was on because it was also all over my hands, and I didn't want to ruin my camera. I'll take some pictures tomorrow .

Don