Thursday, March 31, 2016

Extreme body mods.

So, about the problem of having to undo the clutch line from the chassis if needing to fix or remove a part...
There are 2 large washers sandwiching the frame part between them.

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Done painting



So after wet sanding the massive orange peel out of the original spray w 1000 grit, the car got its final paint today...

I guess GM got something right in the past, cool color.

I was in a conundrum today due to the 87% humidity, but a brief shower today kept temps in the low 70s w light winds.  
After adding extra reducer  it sprayed pretty nice.

Had to pull front fenders to get door fronts painted and also because dot 4 brake fluid on nearly new paint will eat a hole down to the primer.
So had to fix that from last time.

Monday, March 14, 2016

Feeling fathom green around the gills

So the weather warmed after 5 days of rain, I got time to try to finish some painting...
High temp today 85*, 50% humidity.
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It took to the last ounce of a gallon of paint to figure out how to shoot this stuff as easy as shooting
with a spray can.  I imagine there will be some touch up here and there after.
The paint was spitting out the gun again, I added a couple oz. of thinner to the paint itself, mixed thoroughly and then mixed it to its 8:2:1 ratio.
Also found that I mixed the 1.4 gun needle with the 1.8 tip. Also hooked a second larger compressor inline with the other so there was plenty of air.
If I had not wasted several cups of paint figuring out what was happening, there would be plenty of leftover touchup.  Paintforcars never answered my email question from a month ago.
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 Fortunately and unfortunately my phone doesn't take the best pics:

 Fathom Green- drying as I type this

It really is a cool color, kinda a fancy mossy woody color

Again, the color changes in different lights

The camera doesn't show all the flaws,  Wait did I say flaws? No flaws here.

Same angle without the flash...
After I assess the paint when it dries, then parts can get thrown on the MGB