Slake said:
Bummer about the paint Brundle Fly. If I ever get the gumption to try as ambitious a mod as you did, I'll remeber not to skimp on the paint.
LOL at the dog joke. BTW- we went to the animal shelter today and adopted a dog. Poor thing's fur was mega-matted. Gonna pick her up Monday. Looks like a giant Maltese. We already have a Shiba-Inu, but the wife wants a lap dog.
Yeah, it's a bummer, but it's a lesson learned the hard way, the kind you don't easily forget.
A few pics of what happened. Obviously, Crappy Tire paint doesn't agree with Dupli-Colour, in a multitude of ways. This is clear enamel on top of enamel colour coats, after a week of drying in very nice weather, average of 75F for a week, no rain at all. The CTC clear on top of the Metal Cast primer wrinkled it up so it looked just like spraying laquer on top of enamel. Same effect, but this is enamel on enamel.
The faceplate for my burner went in a different direction, it clouded over bigtime, which happened to all the other colour coated parts also. The effect after clear-coating makes it look as though I had just finished wetsanding the clear. There's no salvaging this, the clouding has to go, and the only way is to sand it out, which will cut into the metalflake, ruining the effect. I'll just start from scratch. Weird the two different reactions with the same can of clear, I guess it's the metalflake in the primer.
I used the Dupli-Colour clear on my keyboard and had no problems whatsoever, so I can only assume it's the el-cheapo Crappy Tire paint. Man, they don't even put a freakin rattle in the can they're so cheap! You can see the diff in the comparison shot with the keyboard. Ah well, suck it up, I worked yesterday, that's an extra $200 on my paycheque next Friday.
I figure around $80 to $100 for primer/paint/clear. I have all the sandpaper and other supplies, so paint is all I need. I'd much rather spend it on beer, I mean the wife and kids, but paint it is
Here's the faceplate:
In the end, I get to fix a few flaws that were kinda buggin me, like I forgot to clean off my drive light window after priming, if I would have done it later, it would have cracked the primer, now I can fix that, clean it off with a Q-Tip while the primer is still wet, then colour coat over top, changing the light to red.
Cool on the dog Slake. I'm a fan of Black Labs myself, but the wife's wee powder-puff grew on me. Nice job saving an animal from the shelter, props to you dude
Time to work on the window I suppose. Ticks me off, I saved $2 a can by buying CTC clear-coat instead of Dupli-colour, and now it's gonna cost me $60. So, I "saved" $6 using CTC clear, which will end up costing the $60(paint/primer/clear) PLUS what I wasted on CTC clear.
