Charlie Woods
02-22-2005, 8:42 PM
Well the cabinet for the saw has been stripped, primed and painted. It was not that difficult, just that it was done a little at a time. Both Nick ( for those of you who have not read the previous posts, Nick is one of my senior tech theatre students who is helping with this project) and myself worked on it as time permitted. The process was really pretty easy. We used standard heavy duty oven cleaner to loosen up the paint. After donning, safety goggles, gloves, and resperiators we sprayed it on a small section, waited 20 minutes and scrapped/or used a wire brush wheel and a drill to get the paint off. After the paint was removed we sprayed the cabinet down with warm water to get the residue of the cleaner off, then started on the next section. The oven cleaner worked like a charm, the only drawback was the mess of green paint left when we were done with each section. I did leave the large white stripe sticker on the saw, but removed the top and bottom smaller stripes, because they were peeling in too many places. Once the paint was stripped a nice shiny cabinet was in place( see first pic).
Nick taped of the white sticker, and any other part we did not want to be green. The primer was a grey autobody primer, that went on in three coats. ( 2nd pic) Once the primer dried for 24 hrs the green paint went on next. Now as much as I wanted to use origional PM green, the only place I could find that would match it and put it in preassurized containers wanted way to much for it, especially since I wanted to put on multiple coats. I did find at Walmart a pretty close Krylon gloss green that worked for me, and was much cheaper. ( see pic 3-5) It lookes better than I thought it would. Even as the green paint went on Nick still wanted to paint it blue like he origionaly suggested. That is one of the perks of being in charge and using your own money for the project, you get the final decesion. I will add a sealer over the green to prevent paint from scraping off to quickly. The next step is to lubricate and reassemble the interior of the saw, and get it ready for final set up. This will be a very slow and careful process, to make sure we both get each step done right with a minnimal of mistakes. I will post more pics of the assembly and completion. Thanks for looking and all of your input.
Nick taped of the white sticker, and any other part we did not want to be green. The primer was a grey autobody primer, that went on in three coats. ( 2nd pic) Once the primer dried for 24 hrs the green paint went on next. Now as much as I wanted to use origional PM green, the only place I could find that would match it and put it in preassurized containers wanted way to much for it, especially since I wanted to put on multiple coats. I did find at Walmart a pretty close Krylon gloss green that worked for me, and was much cheaper. ( see pic 3-5) It lookes better than I thought it would. Even as the green paint went on Nick still wanted to paint it blue like he origionaly suggested. That is one of the perks of being in charge and using your own money for the project, you get the final decesion. I will add a sealer over the green to prevent paint from scraping off to quickly. The next step is to lubricate and reassemble the interior of the saw, and get it ready for final set up. This will be a very slow and careful process, to make sure we both get each step done right with a minnimal of mistakes. I will post more pics of the assembly and completion. Thanks for looking and all of your input.