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Rod (NH)

07-09-2006 15:21:11

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A beautiful day for painting outside. 82°F, light overcast, low humidity, light breeze and no rain in sight. I got some more AC-B parts done today. I prefer skyhooks for supporting individual pieces. I can easily re-position parts as I go with my left hand while spraying with my right. If you want excellent coverage, painting individual tractor parts as much as possible is the only way to go. It takes a lot longer and wastes more paint but the end result is much better. If you don't have a bucket loader, improvise. When I have more parts than I can hang at once from the bucket itself, I've used a step ladder to support a 2x4 strung between it and a high point on the loader. Additional parts are then hung off that 2x4.

Rod

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David Maddux

07-11-2006 20:17:03

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Re: Great Painting Day in reply to Rod (NH), 07-09-2006 15:21:11

I hear all the time about people that paint their parts individually the put them on the tractor and recoat it a final time. I don't do that. Those people will have a part that finally gets oversprayed or missed and it don't make any difference how many coats you put on an individual part, if you screw them together and then get them oversprayed, well then, it looks bad. Yes I paint all of my parts individually then put them on and touch up the bolts with an artist brush.

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B-maniac

07-09-2006 17:27:10

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Re: Great Painting Day in reply to Rod (NH), 07-09-2006 15:21:11

Individual parts painting IS the way to go in my opinion also. It's nice once in a while to push this idea. You wouldn't believe how many people (or maybe you would) believe there are some super painters out there that achieve those "expo" quallity tractors by just masking everything up,spraying the $200 gal. paint in their $50,000 booth and waaa-laaa. The "nice" show cars are painted in pieces also. The worst thing any of the first-timers can do is watch those "reallity??" shows that build a show car in a week because that's when it has to make THE show. Even Boyd knows the big money is in TV!! Glad you got a good day to paint,Rod,doesn't sound like you have near enough of them.Hope you get some more soon!

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souNdguy

07-10-2006 04:54:50

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Re: Great Painting Day in reply to B-maniac, 07-09-2006 17:27:10

I will say that being able to paint parts individually does make for a great presentation piece.

Luckilly most of the tractors I work with are fords with minimal sheet metal.. though on the larger units.. it wasn't feasable for me to dismount large sections.

On my allis G.. I had fun with it up on jack stands though.. and was able to hang all the sheetmetal.

The one downside is trying to not scratch parts as you re-install them!!!

Soundguy

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