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Post by Penguin45 on Apr 8, 2013 23:33:44 GMT
Cheers. The car is Midnight Blue, so is really very dark. Photographs do lie......
I used a random can of Peugeot Regency Blue to blow over the wing as a guide coat prior to the final flatting before colour. It's just about all rubbed off and revealed one or two little low spots which have been dealt with. Bit happier with this than previous efforts!
To be fair, actually painting is a doddle with just a little bit of practice. The time goes in getting the preparation right. It's been a couple of hours most evenings for the past week and all day Sunday to get to this point.
The Mig-Welding forum is an absolute gold mine for information - I'd recommend it to anybody.
So just damage on three doors, sill bottoms, rear panel and rear wing to deal with. And some blisters on the corners of the boot to chip out and deal with. And the paint on the bonnet looks a bit thin. I think I've got about 4 litres of top coat.
Harrumph.
Nick - nail it early. Usually much simpler.
Chris.
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Post by Penguin45 on Apr 14, 2013 12:05:43 GMT
First proper top coat laid on wing, side/head lamp area and sills. Looking good. Another few degrees Centigrade would be nice.
Chris.
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Post by Penguin45 on Apr 14, 2013 15:53:27 GMT
That's been a pretty successful afternoon, all things considered. Three good coats built up on the wings, sills done as well. Colour match looks pretty good - I'll find out properly when it's flatted back and polished.     Quite pleased with that. Later on, I'm going for a 25/75% coat to see if the surface will flatten down so I don't have to spend this weeks evenings flatting down. Problems still to be solved:  N/S passenger door. This was dented and pushed out; paint now very badly crazed. Not sure how to tackle this.   Bootlid corners. Looks like the welded joint from the previous repairs is breaking through. Bare metal and start again, I think.  Rear panel. Speckly effect is high build primer showing through. Flat, re-prime and do it again. Working with cellulose, so face mask is essential:   And that's why. Might be a bit more later. Chris. |
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Post by Penguin45 on Apr 21, 2013 20:52:55 GMT
Drive It Day............. Pushed the car forward four feet............ Anyway.  N/s wing finished. Polished up nicely and reassembled. That's a couple of dust speckles on it. Honest.  Passenger door bottom being rather awkward - getting there.  N/S rear passenger door just need flatting down. That split crinkled paint proved to be just the very outermost layer - rubbing it down with 600 grit wet and dry almost meant I didn't need paint - but specks of primer showed through. Blew this in with the airbrush. Great tool - if you haven't got one, spend the £25. It gives you a great deal of fine control for localised repairs.  Bottom half of boot lid - masked it off where the trim strip fits. I've had three goes at this to try and get it this far. More flatting and stopping required.  By contrast, the rear panel flatted back beautifully, again blown over with the airbrush.  Drivers door being difficult. Second go with the stopper to try and get the surface flat.  O/S wing ready for rubbing down. Looks good. 13 hours today - the car needs to be done for next Sunday, so plenty to do this week. Chris. |
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Post by Penguin45 on Apr 23, 2013 0:50:21 GMT
Right - all bits that needed painting are now painted. O/S wing, boot lid and petrol cap (forgot to mention that) are flatted back down to the 1500 grit stage. Rubbing compound and polish next.
Passenger and drivers door are now in paint as the stopper has finally decided to behave. I think it'll be done for the weekend.
Chris.
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Post by Penguin45 on Apr 23, 2013 23:28:37 GMT
Shiny!  Everything's now flatted, cut back and polished. Bit of work to deal with some overspray on the front, then reassembly. Quite pleased with the outcome so far. Chris. |
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Post by Penguin45 on Apr 26, 2013 0:19:25 GMT
Managed to get a bit of unexpected free time today, so Alex (No. 2 twin) and I ticked off one of the "If there's time" boxes.     Alex did the accurate bit of masking - I did the easy bit with the gold enamel. I think that looks absolutely brilliant. Proper touch of class. And the other side's got one too. Really chuffed with that. Chris. |
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Post by dave1800 on Apr 26, 2013 6:43:30 GMT
It's looking really nice. Do you have a heater in your garage? I had some paintwork done a week or so ago and the temperature reached 43C which meant the paint dried almost before it left the spray gun. They have asked me to go back when it's cooler as it was a real mess!
regards
David
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Post by Penguin45 on Apr 26, 2013 23:25:38 GMT
Thanks David.
It's been very mild for the last 10 days or so, so the painting's gone pretty much to plan. A month back, I wish I had been having your problems! I do have a small electric radiator which I use to take the chill off, but it doesn't actually heat the garage. I tend to warm up quite quickly when I get working!
I put her back together this evening and everything seems to work, so, a couple of work calls in the morning and the big clean and polish tomorrow. Off to Gaydon on Sunday.
Chris.
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Post by Penguin45 on Apr 27, 2013 23:17:59 GMT
Not really a very happy bunny. Put her outside to do the big clean and polish and, really, I've only dealt with about half of the problems. Wings are just about acceptable, not very happy with the rest of it.
Still, she's clean and got a decent shine on her, so she's presentable for the meeting tomorrow. In some ways, I almost hope it rains. Covers a myriad of sins.
Chris.
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Post by Penguin45 on Apr 28, 2013 23:10:32 GMT
Perhaps I've spent a little too long looking at paintwork from a range of 6 inches. I suspect that I'm seeing stuff that other people aren't - there were some nice comments about the car today at Gaydon at the AGM. It's that perfectionist streak in me, must be.  Chris. |
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Post by kelsham on Apr 29, 2013 6:39:21 GMT
The main thing is to keep the car on the road, what paint type are you using? cellulose wil always polish up well and is easy to repair.
My car needs attention, the boot has scabs of paint lifting off it. I think it is due to lack of preparation when it was last sprayed 12 years ago. I should have keyed the surface better.
Regards Kels.
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Post by Penguin45 on Apr 29, 2013 20:03:07 GMT
True enough, Kels. I am using cellulose - it's pretty easy to work with really. It's the prep that's the killer. Getting it dead right is really difficult. Each change of colour, each change of light shows up different little bits to be sorted. At least your boot lid has lasted 12 years! Did the other tie-bar bushes this evening. This means that by Friday, the missing ones will have magically re-appeared.  Cheers, Chris. |
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Post by Penguin45 on May 1, 2013 23:12:21 GMT
This means that by Friday, the missing ones will have magically re-appeared. And indeed they have. They are part of a front end re-build kit in the bottom drawer of the storage unit which I came across this evening whilst searching for something else entirely. Typical. So, I've got some spares then. What I was looking for was a spare sidelight pod, as the tension spring had failed on one on the car and the sidelight wouldn't stay on. I couldn't find that either. I suspect that it got binned, actually. The side light bulb holder is basically a tube, with a step at the bottom. In the absence of a suitable spring, I made up a plastic disc with a hole in the middle to fit the bottom of the tube, cut a short length of skinny rubber hose to fit round the wire and act as a spring and put it all back together. It works, job done. Phew. Chris. |
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Post by Penguin45 on May 8, 2013 0:30:18 GMT
Went down to Chatsworth House on Sunday with the WOC:  Got there first, so bagged the spot at the top of the hill .  This is Chris Leather's Six. Very nice, one family owned, one off colour and generally very tasty.  It would be a little disingenuous not to show the line-up - there are cars other than ADO17s. Anyway, temperature shot up not far short of the House. The neck of the radiator is leaking. I have unsoldered it and removed it. Cleaned both parts, polished, tinned, pre-soldered and re-assembled. Water is tiddling everywhere. I wwill remove the radiator tomorrow and whizz it up to the Radiator Doctor in Morley tomorrow. They will repair it and pressure test it without insisting that it be re-cored and all the rest of the mullarkey which Northern Radiators get up to. Chris. |
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