I didn’t get much done today.
I did get on the phone with the paint manufacturer and get my whole system dialed. As I suspected the self etch primer needs to be sealed with a actual primer within 16hrs. All the paint also needs to be applied and allowed to dry at a temperature of 60% plus minimum.
So right now it will be self etch, wait a few hours prime with a high build product. I will the. Set to filling with body filler, sand for weeks on end then go over that all with a polyester prime. The polyester is basicly a spray on body filler of sorts. That get sanded to like 400 then and only then I get to my finish. Right now I’m considering a industrial polyurethane finish in a low luster. If I go this route it saves me the whole clear coat and buffing nightmare.
At the end of the day I revisited the miter portion of the outrigger fence/table support. This is one of the first items I got to work on weeks ago now. Now with the dai grinder and various abrasive attachments I can pr4tty much strip everything 100% to bare metal. Some pieces it easy leash 123, others it can be a nightmare and take hours and hours. I’m sure in some cases I don’t need to remove all the paint but I kinda like the torture and suffering of my carpel tunnel and I like getting all OCD on something even more.
One of the things I find most interesting is as I strip the paint back I find the machine/prep marks originally made on the parts in the preparation process at the factory. Much of what you see as machine marks are not actually from me but what I am finding as I remove the paint. The factory did a crude job at best evening out the cast parts. For the most part they relied heavily on fillers to get the finished product. I will be doing the same. I am cleaning up the cast where it makes sense but for the most part I’ll be doing as Martin did and buying stock in body filler.
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My pile of parts. It getting old moving this stuff around from place to place. I gotta get this back prepped and primed so I can put it aside without the worry of new rust setting in.
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I have anoth4r pile of parts about the size of the picture above pretty much ready for prime down on the first floor with the rest of the machine. Man o man what have I gotten myself into?