02-19-2007, 12:56 AM
nearing the end now, after these steps you're on the home stretch of my abbreviated paintjob detailed here.
A few hints that I've picked up:
-Wiping surfaces off with mineral spirits before painting is a great practice. I've been doing it after I sand and I feel it gets the area really clean and removes any contaminants. It might be a little extreme to do it for every coat, but I can see the benefits.
-Change your roller every time you wetsand. I'm averaging 4-5 coats between sanding events, and I feel like my roller has collected some trash over time and is putting it into the paint as I roll it. No worries, since it gets sanded off, but would be better if it never made it in there.
-Something I didn't mention earlier on saving your supplies. I put my roller in a plastic baggie between uses, it keeps it moist and reduces its exposure to trash and dust. I also have been mixing my paint and mineral spirits in an old, throughly cleaned, plastic spaghetti sauce bottle. It's perfect and I really wish I had done it with the SE-R. It gives me the ability to adjust the thickness of the mixture until I reach exactly how I want it, and every time I'm done painting, I just dump the leftover back in to be used later. Definitely reducing the amount of waste and is giving me better results I feel.
Now, on with the pics!
I've really just been putting down more and more layers of paint.
Coat 7
![[Image: coat7-2.jpg]](http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e274/93anthracite/Truck%20fender%20paint/coat7-2.jpg)
Coat 8
![[Image: coat8-2.jpg]](http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e274/93anthracite/Truck%20fender%20paint/coat8-2.jpg)
Coat 10 (coat 9 was put on it 20 minutes, rushing off to work this morning and forgot to take pics)
![[Image: coat10-1.jpg]](http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e274/93anthracite/Truck%20fender%20paint/coat10-1.jpg)
I wetsanded at 1000 grit tonight, wiped off all the sludge from the wet dust, wiped off again with mineral spirits to get up anything left and help evaporate the water.
![[Image: wetsand1000-1.jpg]](http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e274/93anthracite/Truck%20fender%20paint/wetsand1000-1.jpg)
Finally, tonight I put down my last layer of paint, making a grand total of 11 coats of paint. After the sanding, probably 2-3 coats have actually been removed. There is definitely some orange peel on these, but I didn't really put the effort into not getting it out b/c this is a work truck and a little orange peel doesn't look so bad when there is rust everywhere else :-).
This job should be finished up tomorrow morning, so look for the final installment of this tomorrow evening as well as an overall reveiw with before and after pics. Not too shabby in terms of timeframe IMO, considering I started painting it last Tuesday night, and started prep work on it last Sunday :-).
A few hints that I've picked up:
-Wiping surfaces off with mineral spirits before painting is a great practice. I've been doing it after I sand and I feel it gets the area really clean and removes any contaminants. It might be a little extreme to do it for every coat, but I can see the benefits.
-Change your roller every time you wetsand. I'm averaging 4-5 coats between sanding events, and I feel like my roller has collected some trash over time and is putting it into the paint as I roll it. No worries, since it gets sanded off, but would be better if it never made it in there.
-Something I didn't mention earlier on saving your supplies. I put my roller in a plastic baggie between uses, it keeps it moist and reduces its exposure to trash and dust. I also have been mixing my paint and mineral spirits in an old, throughly cleaned, plastic spaghetti sauce bottle. It's perfect and I really wish I had done it with the SE-R. It gives me the ability to adjust the thickness of the mixture until I reach exactly how I want it, and every time I'm done painting, I just dump the leftover back in to be used later. Definitely reducing the amount of waste and is giving me better results I feel.
Now, on with the pics!
I've really just been putting down more and more layers of paint.
Coat 7
Coat 8
Coat 10 (coat 9 was put on it 20 minutes, rushing off to work this morning and forgot to take pics)
I wetsanded at 1000 grit tonight, wiped off all the sludge from the wet dust, wiped off again with mineral spirits to get up anything left and help evaporate the water.
Finally, tonight I put down my last layer of paint, making a grand total of 11 coats of paint. After the sanding, probably 2-3 coats have actually been removed. There is definitely some orange peel on these, but I didn't really put the effort into not getting it out b/c this is a work truck and a little orange peel doesn't look so bad when there is rust everywhere else :-).
This job should be finished up tomorrow morning, so look for the final installment of this tomorrow evening as well as an overall reveiw with before and after pics. Not too shabby in terms of timeframe IMO, considering I started painting it last Tuesday night, and started prep work on it last Sunday :-).