Eager to try out my newly assembled, foolproof-anti-water manifold type air line system, I got home today, and got right to it.
The dash was first to go, I wiped the thing down to get all of the dust off of it, tacked it off, and sprayed it. Paint went on beautifully. When it was dry enough to touch (about 20 minuets, I moved him out in the sun.
Despite the fact that this stuff is supposed to be satin black, clearly, it's way glossier than that. We'll get back to it in an hour.
I moved onto the console, prepped the night before.
I get the first coat on and it goes on as nicely as the dash paint did, and I unmask, and step out of my "alabama paint booth" to look at the dash.
When I get back to it however, I find this:
Evidently, lil' dude has read about the medicinal benefits to be had from swimming in the Black Sea. Guess he got his black seas wrong.
That little ******* just didn't land there,...he decided to trudge......through....the .....paint,.......about 100 "bug feet" before he finally got entombed at the top of Mt. tubamanjaro.
Now had this happened on the dash, this would've really "bugged me" (heh-heh), but since it's on the console actually behind the seat, I made the bug a permanent addition o the bar, and covered his ass in the second coat. When it was dry enough to handle as well, it got moved outside next to the dash.
The dash was starting to flatten. A process that truly takes about 12-15 hours to finally reach it's satin finish, and mega hardness.
After looking at the stuff up close though, I may have a problem w/ the insert mesh being to wide to fit, now that there is the added film thickness of several coats of primer, and multiple coats of thick as hell satin black paint. I'll have to mask the bars really well before I attempt to fit that stuff, and that is gonna require another day.
As a epilogue to whether or not the new airline system works, I can testify that it works beautifully. By cracking the three ball valves in front of the regulator, there is absolutely zero water in the regulator reservoir, and consequently zero water in my new paint.
The dash was first to go, I wiped the thing down to get all of the dust off of it, tacked it off, and sprayed it. Paint went on beautifully. When it was dry enough to touch (about 20 minuets, I moved him out in the sun.
Despite the fact that this stuff is supposed to be satin black, clearly, it's way glossier than that. We'll get back to it in an hour.
I moved onto the console, prepped the night before.
I get the first coat on and it goes on as nicely as the dash paint did, and I unmask, and step out of my "alabama paint booth" to look at the dash.
When I get back to it however, I find this:
Evidently, lil' dude has read about the medicinal benefits to be had from swimming in the Black Sea. Guess he got his black seas wrong.
That little ******* just didn't land there,...he decided to trudge......through....the .....paint,.......about 100 "bug feet" before he finally got entombed at the top of Mt. tubamanjaro.
Now had this happened on the dash, this would've really "bugged me" (heh-heh), but since it's on the console actually behind the seat, I made the bug a permanent addition o the bar, and covered his ass in the second coat. When it was dry enough to handle as well, it got moved outside next to the dash.
The dash was starting to flatten. A process that truly takes about 12-15 hours to finally reach it's satin finish, and mega hardness.
After looking at the stuff up close though, I may have a problem w/ the insert mesh being to wide to fit, now that there is the added film thickness of several coats of primer, and multiple coats of thick as hell satin black paint. I'll have to mask the bars really well before I attempt to fit that stuff, and that is gonna require another day.
As a epilogue to whether or not the new airline system works, I can testify that it works beautifully. By cracking the three ball valves in front of the regulator, there is absolutely zero water in the regulator reservoir, and consequently zero water in my new paint.