1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

can i Bing it

 

I've never used fluid film; did you look it up online?

 

oh fuck me, my mind is not always in the gutter
but i got it now lol

 

this stuff has been highly recommended by @Blue92 and many many others

 

I think you went a wee bit heavy with application

 

i sprayed the can about 6 inches away like it said to?

 

it was 60 degrees here too so temperature was not the issue?

 

Did you move slowly? I’ve never used the stuff but I’d assume it’s like applying a light coat of paint

 

maybe i moved too slow, i was on my shoulder & upside down looking straight up at it

 

Yeah thats waaayyy too thick. I do it so it just tints the metal with a thin coat of oil. 3 cans does the whole truck.

 

let's help him not freak...

https://www.fluid-film.com/spraying-fluid-film/

 

why did it turn yellow?
is it supposed to

 

i did not put it on rotors

 

Just looks like it is on real thick/too thick. Don't know if you can technically apply Fluid Film too think though. But you could prolly get away with a thinner layer of it. Frame is looking nice and shiny. Did the paint and stuff all work out like you were hoping?

 

the weather is not really cooperating for priming and painting, its supposed to have temps 70 - 90 range, it barely made it into the low 60s today
and i will have to re-blast a bunch of areas on the passenger side that look like crap still. I was just using normal daylight until i got the idea to use a halogen floor lamp to shine up at the work. I found a whole bunch of problematic body panel problems i had not known, hopefully they are minor and not too costly to get proper

i am wondering if the FF is having a bad chemical reaction with the phosphoric acid and zinc coating i tried cleaning up the flash rust with, that AT fluid and coffee filter was not doing a great job and had to apply this afterblast chemical several times before the white rags would wipe clean

 

Its yellow in color. Spray so its puts a golden tint on the black frame. If you go light enough it will be basically clear after a week or so. I think @BTB had a pic of his frame after a fresh coat he applied earlier this year. I did my control arms/coil bucket last week and this is what they looked like right after spraying.

You can see a little yellow especially on the frame rail to the left of the pic, but its all just clear/wet looking now a week later.

Take a paint brush and spread what youve already sprayed out some. Its pretty thick, this stuff is too expensive to apply like that. You'll need 87 cans to do the entire truck at that rate haha.

 

i do not have a total black frame
its NAKED in huge sections

 

There we go, we needed a resident expert with real experience with FF, not me the expert with fake internet experience FF. Good info though, I still need to get some FF on mine.

 

Not sure what all you did but if you bead/media blasted your frame, wouldn't painting your frame with the proper paint be next in order?

Then after the paint dries and cures, applying fluid film?

 

yes, i think i used half a can on just this half section
if i can use a paint brush to spread it out that will help out a lot, thanks