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I took a pint of POR 15 and painted the floor tonight; that stuff really goes a long way. I even had a little left over.

Originally Posted by falconvan

I took a pint of POR 15 and painted the floor tonight; that stuff really goes a long way. I even had a little left over.

Yes it does,, and it is indestructible,, I spilled some on the pavement in the street a few years back,, and several years of traffic has not even started to wear it any,,, Good stuff, don't get any on you, especally where there is any hair you care to keep

Too late; I started to drop the brush and grabbed the wet end. I immidiately grabbed some thinner and a rag to try and get it off my hand but no good. I guess itll have to wear off.

Originally Posted by falconvan

Too late; I started to drop the brush and grabbed the wet end. I immidiately grabbed some thinner and a rag to try and get it off my hand but no good. I guess itll have to wear off.

No fingerprints left huh??

They're there; just stained really good.

Still got spots in the drive way from last summer. Took a month to get it off my toes(don't paint in sandles!

Tomorrow the roof gets some color. I took the wheels off to get it lower to the ground to try and help with the reach. The best thing I can say is no one will ever see the roof so I'm just going to go for it and hope for the best.

Originally Posted by falconvan

Tomorrow the roof gets some color. I took the wheels off to get it lower to the ground to try and help with the reach. The best thing I can say is no one will ever see the roof so I'm just going to go for it and hope for the best.

And if all else fails just sand some more




Did I say that ....joe

Originally Posted by TooMany2count

And if all else fails just sand some more




Did I say that ....joe

Or just let short people look at it.....

Or when your done you can put mirrors up there so everyone can see how nice it is!

Not! It came out OK; I'm still not a very good painter but buying a nice gun definately helped. I didnt realize how bad I was fighting my old cheap gun intil I used a decent one. It's really hard to see where your last pass was when you're doing the second coat on a white paintjob. I ended up with a couple of dry streaks on the side; is there any way to fix these without repainting the whole side? I also did all the pieces for the dighouse and the side braces; they all came out acceptable. Hopefully I'll get the other side tomorrow and the front on Monday. Then it's time to take a paint break and start putting this thing back together.

hell that roof looks good from were i am sitting .yep white is fun i painted air plane wings like painting a big wall .you have to be on your game so you knew were you were putting wet on wet down and not have dry spots or to much paint i looked at angle to the gun when painting not strait on so you can watch the paint

Thanks, Pat. the roof sides look OK; it's just on top where it's not so great but the thing is so tall I'm not going to sweat it. I went out this morning to look how the first side dried and I was not happy. One bad run and more orange peel that a Sunkist. After I dropped three bills on a new gun, too. Of course it had to be a problem with the gun. So I got the box the gun came in to see how to send this piece of crap back and found an interesting piece of paper in the bottom of the box. It said "READ DIRECTIONS THOROUGHLY BEFORE USING." I figured it must be suggestions only, because why would I need to read directions when I know everything? Let's see, air pressure at gun handle-wrong. Fan adjustment-wrong. Fine air adjustment-wrong. OK, I thought. I'll TRY and adjust it like they say and see what happens but I'm sure it wont be any better. You can guess what happened next. After also putting up a large halogen shop light so I could see properly, the other side came out about 10 times better than the first. Who would have thought? Tomorrow I'll do the front and think about what to do with the first side. Not sure if I need to completely do it over or if I can wet sand it out with some 1500. Any suggestions are more that welcome.

Originally Posted by TooMany2count

And if all else fails just sand some more




Did I say that ....joe

Did I say that??????

Get out the sand paper.... joe

Joe, after looking at that big run near the back i decided to just do that side over. I sanded it down for a few hours with some 600 and shot it again when I did the front. I'm glad I did; it came out much better. I still have the doors, hood and roll up door to paint but I'm taking a break from the bodywork for a while. I'm going to work on getting it put back together and moving under it's own power. Here's where I started and what she looks like now; it's come a long way.