Geez, I thought it would never happen. It was my goal for this weekend, and I got it accomplished! Overall it looks great. A few small areas of fish eyes popped up despite my fastidious efforts at cleaning before, during, and after sanding with wax and grease remover. Oh well. A lot of block sanding in my future on the hood. It is pretty wavy. :ball: Now I wish I had taken the time to take the hood all the way down to metal. The flexing of the sheet metal while going over it with the DA was my down fall there. The rest of the car looks straight as an arrow as it is, but I'll block it anyway. :kodak: I spent most of Saturday hanging plastic in the garage. Did most of the masking late Sunday. It's all one color at least :grin: I'm glad my neighbors were away today. :laugh: I was wrapped head to toe in a paint suit and used a good respirator. Didn't smell a thing, or catch a buzz, so I am confident I didn't poison myself with Isocyanates. I had 3 open windows for intake air covered in filter material, with these 2 fans placed under the partially open garage door. Sherwin Williams. It sprayed and covered very nicely. :TU: I only used 1/2 of it. 96.oz total after adding in the reducer & hardener. That got me 3 good coats of primer using a cheap ass Harbor Freight gun I paid like $12.00 for after a 20% off coupon on top of the sale price. :dollar: I have a higher quality Finishline gun I will use for the color. Overall, I'm very happy. :beer
Way to Go Dale!!! You've been working on that thing for a long time. I drove by Irondale this weekend, Doesn't look the same anymore. Andy would be proud today!! What color are you going with?
Looking good Dale - that'll give you some practice for the final colour, which will be . . . . . . . ? Probably spent more time hanging the plastic than it took to lay down the primer ! :laugh: :beer :TU:
Thanks for the compliments! Been working on it a long, long time! Even though I work near Irondale, I haven't driven by in ages. I will never forget Andy. It was great having an auto shop teacher that was a Buick nut. As he would say to the class, "If it isn't a Buick, it's crap!" :laugh: I may have mentioned before, he had an extra credit question on the final exam. "How do you spell the model name of my daily driver?" RIVIERA. :TU: As much as I thought about changing color, I am painting it the original factory code 61 Sandpiper Beige. Hanging that plastic took a lot longer than I had dreamed. I had to take those light fixtures down and clean the 18 years of dust off them, and hanging them back up. Up and down the ladder, over and over. I am one stiff and sore 48 year old today. I'm thinking I may be better off just re-doing the hood altogether. Take it down to metal like I should have to begin with. ou: .
You might want to filter your intake air before spraying your color. I made that mistake once.:error:
I had a filter right at the inlet of the gun, on top of the one at the outlet of the tank. I don't think contaminants in the air was the cause of the fisheyes. They are all around the area of the vinyl top. Which makes me think it was the result of years and years of Armor All, and who knows what other kinds of top dressings used over the years. That's my theory anyways.
Sorry! I meant the windows. I had a mosquito land in the clear coat of my Bronco II because i did not put a filer on my door opening. The wings and a couple of legs still remain. The Riv looks good!!!
Oh, the windows. Yes, I had them covered also. I had taken the filter material out of the windows by the time I remmbered to take pics. (I almost always forget.) When looking at the furnace filters at Menards, I spotted a 19"x240" roll of the filter material I could cut to size. :beer
What type of compressor are you using, and have you painted a car using this method before, it looks professional even though your at home. Keep me posted I'm planning the same endevour!
Looking good Dale :TU: !!! And that original Sandpiper Beige looks really good on those 1970 Rivieras, I'm happy that you decided to keep the original colour :bglasses:
Dale man it is a great job.. and you should have no problems with paint.. Here is a copy of a post I put on an explorer site when dad painted his. Just another example of what you can do in your own garage when you put your mind to it. Dad is no professional but he has painted a couple of his own cars ==================== Its a 96, and the rocker panels and around the gas cap were in bad shape. Dad's got a plow on it so he would like to get another year or two out of her. He is in Canada where they use a lot of salt on the roads and it works out that Im in Florida - land of the rust free sheetmetal. So on his last visit in May, we visited the junk yard looking for parts for my Buick. (see it is kinda Buick relates LOL) He had the idea to cut the quarter of an explorer to replace around his gas cap area. We had a hacksaw and a hammer and chisel, but we got it off nicely and he took it home in his luggage. He started work on that area, both sides were really rusted. Next on the list was the rocker panels. A couple months ago he saw a bubble by the plastic cover on the rocker panel and poked at it with his key. Well the key sailed on through the rocker panel. And when He pryed down on it he nearly died. Popped them off and this is what he saw. So, he made me the offer, that he would buy me a cordless reciprocating saw, if I would go cut the rockers off an explorer here in FL and mail them home. I did just that. Heres a couple of shots of the donar after one side was cut I mailed them home, and Dad drilled out the spot welds and took them apart for what he needed. A few hours later, they are on, welded, and epoxy primered. Here are some shots of his prep work. Getting ready to tape up Here is his "paint booth" all ready to go I recomended he change the color. It was electric blue, I recomended Wedgwood blue. He was very pleased with the color. So am I. And the finished product. Not bad for a "do it yourself'er". Im very proud of him, I think she looks amazing.
This is the first car I have attempted to paint. I have a small 5 hp 20 gallon compressor that actually to my surprise kept up with the gun. I thought I would be stopping and waiting for the compressor to catch up every now and then. The cheap gravity feed gun I used required 6 CFM of air, and that is about max for that compressor. I set the compressor outside to avoid any sparks from the motor igniting fumes. When I shoot the color using the HVLP gun, I am going to rent a compressor from my local rental store that has a 12 CFM rating. I'm not taking any chances when I shoot the color! Cool! I went back and forth on whether I wanted to do this myself or not. But reminded myself that my Father painted in his garage both the '40 Lincoln, and '37 Cord he restored and they both turned out great. He didn't prep the garage anywhere near what I did, I think all he did was just open the door. :laugh: I also recall all he wore was a dust mask, but that was in the days of lacquer and not urethane. :Comp:
I recently repainted a friend's '66 and there were mosquitoes entering in the garage while I was painting even with the doors closed (the garage door seals aren't very tight...). But after some wet sanding and polishing, there aren't many traces of them remaining! See some pics of it there: http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?p=1491677#post1491677 And more at the bottom of this page. http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2091108 Good luck with yours Dale!
Thanks for sharing those pics Phil! I didn't do the door jambs. They are really pretty good as they are. I may paint them as a seperate projct down the road.
