Tried some options but then pussied out and pulled them off
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Showing posts with label Paint. Show all posts
Inside and out
Before
After
One coat of white
Three coats of white
Lacquered
How to turn a rusty, lumpy tank white, inside and out:
Empty petrol
Weld cracks
Extinguish fire
Strip off rust and paint
Buy spare wire brush
Degrease with potent panel wipe
Mix primer, paint a coat and dry
Go back to work for a week
Order sealant kit
Wash inside with detergent
Mix rust converter
Add for 3 hours, sloshing regularly
Wash suspected sulphuric acid rust remover out of eye, thoroughly
Empty over fence in neighbour's garden
Horse around with 100g of white powdered De-Ox
Mix with warm water and add for 1 hour
Wash out with spirits
Dry thoroughly, admire hoover trick
Heat tank sealant and tank to 50oC
Congratulate yourself on finding use for infra red thermometer gun
Mix hardener and poor in tank, coating thoroughly
Worry about missed spot
Second coat of primer
Three coats of white with alternating brush directions
Two coats of laquer
Photograph and blog
Once you've renounced black..
... there's no turning back.
I was so proud of this oil tank when I made it. Now the welds just embarrass me. Too lazy to do anything about it though..
Like a virgin
The frame is too beautiful to be painted black, but coloured frames often look shit. Red? Christ no! Yellow? I'm not a bee. And anything past the primary colours is a bit out my league. But then white crept into my mind. Birch white. And, like those stupid rigid forks, I couldn't kill the thought. Anyway surely realising your daydreams is the whole point?
It takes a little over 2 hrs to paint a coat. I did three layers of primer, four layers of white and two layers of lacquer with a 1" and a 1.5" brush. The primer and white were really thin and pre-lacquer it looked gorgeous. But the white is water based and I had wet grass paranoia so when it came to the lacquer I was a bit heavy and it's dried ever so slightly yellow. Insta-patina maybe. Also the gloss finish kinda shows up the bumps a bit much, next time I'd use a matt or satin laquer but fuck knows what a satin finish looks like.
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