Well, tahdah!
I'll unmask it tomorrow. I'm in particularly pleased with the driver's side especially after all of the crap I went through on it. As you can see, the overspray was minimal due to the paint gun I used:
Here's my workstation, I'm using one of my Sata mini jets to spray the primer, my little compressor did fine with the gun. I've had that particular gun for over twenty years now and it still works great, it's had LOTS of paint run through it. I used maybe six ounces of primer totally on this job. It is a two part primer, with a little reducer to thin it enough to spray well through the mini jet.
This is my masking machine that I've used for over twenty years now, it's a 3M machine, it cost about $350 back then, not sure what a new one would cost. It was orange and red, but I painted it purple and green when I bought it to mark it as mine.
So yay for me! Now I let the primer sit for a week or so to cure and shrink back as much as it can before I prep the bay for paint.
Next thing, tomorrow probably won't involve pictures, I'm going to take the wheels off the rear and put it back up on jack stands so I can begin to grind out all of the undercoating in the wheel tub area. Not sure how long this will take.
This weekend I will begin to block the body out with 800 grit in preparation for paint!
I'll unmask it tomorrow. I'm in particularly pleased with the driver's side especially after all of the crap I went through on it. As you can see, the overspray was minimal due to the paint gun I used:
Here's my workstation, I'm using one of my Sata mini jets to spray the primer, my little compressor did fine with the gun. I've had that particular gun for over twenty years now and it still works great, it's had LOTS of paint run through it. I used maybe six ounces of primer totally on this job. It is a two part primer, with a little reducer to thin it enough to spray well through the mini jet.
This is my masking machine that I've used for over twenty years now, it's a 3M machine, it cost about $350 back then, not sure what a new one would cost. It was orange and red, but I painted it purple and green when I bought it to mark it as mine.
So yay for me! Now I let the primer sit for a week or so to cure and shrink back as much as it can before I prep the bay for paint.
Next thing, tomorrow probably won't involve pictures, I'm going to take the wheels off the rear and put it back up on jack stands so I can begin to grind out all of the undercoating in the wheel tub area. Not sure how long this will take.
This weekend I will begin to block the body out with 800 grit in preparation for paint!