Long Travel BS Thread

right on alex. i should not be dumb and try to half ass it... i'll try to swing by lowes this weekend

love this truck. i wonder where it is these days...

 

those pics are from the old ROR right? ahh good old days before the BullSH*T!!!

 

No problem man. I figured it would save you some money. Single stage paint then paint all of your glass at once. Maybe cost $75 in paint. I bet you'd be under $200 with the spray guns. you'd spend that much on rattle cans and it would take way longer lol

 

Im waiting for mine as well

 

ive got a paint gun as well... never played with it but had a painter buddy of mine set it up to spray nicely. if any of you socal guys need glass painted im willing to help out after the new year once my shop building is completed and ready to be moved into.

 

rednecks... LMAO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEPthEHz4lw&feature=player_embedded

 

Paint is cheap. Its the clear that is expensive. Same with painting them. I had a buddy of mine that works at a paint shop bring over his stuff when I painted mine. I have never painted in my life and I shot the color part, pretty easy. For the clear I let him do it cause its harder to make sure you have good even coverage. I got all mine done for the cost of a Filibertos lunch

 

Thats why you use Single Stage paint. You don't have to use two stage unless you have a lot metallic in the paint or looking for a super deep shine to the paint. Then you have tri-coat which uses a tinted clear before the final clear clear-coats. but you use that if you are doing candies or pearls in the paint.

But you are right about the whole clear is more business. When i do garage floors the ploy I use is normally $200 per 1.5 gal bucket.

Jealous. I'll buy him a steak dinner if he wants to paint my whole truck hahah

 

If anyone see any 14" or 16" smooth bodies for cheap let me know.

 

http://www.race-dezert.com/cgi-bin/trader/atl.cgi?ct=7&md=second&id=37991

there you go.

 

Lol I dont think he would do the whole truck for that. Now that you mention it though your 100% right. My color on my truck is mystic gold metallic Thats why I had to do two stage

 

this guy has the black gel coating on his fenders

 

the clear we used on my truck was $500 a gallon

 

the gel coating is hard to get clean...at least my whites, stains stain and acetone takes em out..still haven't decided if I want to drop 600 on a paint job

 

I usually use Acrylic Enamel paint for most things (probably what Alex is referring to as 1 Stage paint). That and some heavy duty epoxy/self etching primer (more resistant to scratches/scrapes) and you'll be all set. I've painted everything from 1/2-Tons to Mack Front end garbage trucks like this and the results are always good.


EDIT: Be sure to use Lacquer Thinner to wipe down the fiberglass, not paint cleaner (which is basically versol) this will clean out sanding much better and will let the primer adhere to the glass better.

 

Nice, glad to see everything is taken care of a ready to go once again