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I should say right off that I have never painted a car with a paint gun, I have never painted anything made from metal with paint that didn't come out of a can with a marble in the bottom.
I should also say that WHATEVER the Army used to adhere the two stripes of tape/velcro/whatever to the back of my M1009 is the most indestructible stuff ever encountered by me and took considerable effort with a gasket scraper, drywall file and then eventually a pneumatic sander and turned out to be possibly the hardest part of the whole weekend. Did I mention it was 100F outside? And my truck was in the sun?
Processes all new to me and essential to the completion of this task include: masking, mixing paint with thinner, assembling a spray gun, figuring out how to regulate the paint pattern and actually getting the paint onto the surface is a sort of even manner. I did eventually figure those things all out and I think the results are satisfactory.
At one point I almost hurled the paint pot across the yard and called RAPCO to get some spray cans on the way. After figuring out just how the $20 Harbor Freight paint gun had failed, and just how to make it work again, I finally finished and I think the de-pinking of Pinky has come along nicely. After camo and lettering I will be finally rid of the job and can enjoy Pinkie in her cosmeticaly complete form (some day).
I should also say that WHATEVER the Army used to adhere the two stripes of tape/velcro/whatever to the back of my M1009 is the most indestructible stuff ever encountered by me and took considerable effort with a gasket scraper, drywall file and then eventually a pneumatic sander and turned out to be possibly the hardest part of the whole weekend. Did I mention it was 100F outside? And my truck was in the sun?
Processes all new to me and essential to the completion of this task include: masking, mixing paint with thinner, assembling a spray gun, figuring out how to regulate the paint pattern and actually getting the paint onto the surface is a sort of even manner. I did eventually figure those things all out and I think the results are satisfactory.
At one point I almost hurled the paint pot across the yard and called RAPCO to get some spray cans on the way. After figuring out just how the $20 Harbor Freight paint gun had failed, and just how to make it work again, I finally finished and I think the de-pinking of Pinky has come along nicely. After camo and lettering I will be finally rid of the job and can enjoy Pinkie in her cosmeticaly complete form (some day).
Looks great!
