Rats with hooves:

[Sir Sam]

Clipped a bambi on my way down to ouray for the 4th of July. Made out alright on the damage, got a $2200 check from insurance.

 

So I've been running around taking care of other things, and even though I've had my parts for a month now I finally got around to painting them.

 

I used some low VOC paint I got in california(which is where I painted the fender the first time), this is weird stuff, has a odd smell, but not much of a smell compared to a urethane or acrylic. What I like about this paint(and also what I don't like) is that it doesn't set up very quickly. Which makes it a little longer to spray something, but when you do finish your final coverage coat and have good color on everything, you let it sit, and 20 mins later it glosses over nicely.

 

Then an hour later its still too tacky to handle. After about 1.5 hours I moved the parts out into the sun to let them cure. I will let the parts cure overnight and then again in the sun tomorrow before installing them thursday morning. With fresh paint when you apply pressure(like when trying to get a fender to go into place) you can leave imprints if it hasn't cured 100%.

 

[jbhill]

waterborne I'm assuming? looks good... u should paint for a living...

[BJA814]

Wife's gonna be pissed about her lawn chair..... :rotfl2:

[Sir Sam]

waterborne I'm assuming? looks good... u should paint for a living...

 

waterborne?

[Sir Sam]

Wife's gonna be pissed about her lawn chair..... :rotfl2:

 

My old roomates chairs, he said it was ok to paint on them.

[jbhill]

waterborne is socals low voc paint.unless your using single stage.

[Sir Sam]

waterborne is socals low voc paint.unless your using single stage.

 

Single stage, Nason.

[BJA814]

I believe auto air colors is the major manufacturer of waterborne paints. Pretty cool stuff actually.

 

P.S. Paint looks great!

[Sir Sam]

I believe auto air colors is the major manufacturer of waterborne paints. Pretty cool stuff actually.

 

P.S. Paint looks great!

 

Ya it looks like dupount makes the Nason stuff.

 

Limco which I usually use is made by PPG IIRC.

[jbhill]

nice, still looks good.

[Sir Sam]

Got my parts on last night, had to rush between when the Jeep was in the shade, and when the misquitos came out, overall about 2 hours to remove the old parts, get the new fender on, adjusted, and then transfer everything from the old header to the new one.

 

Looks pretty good, but like an idiot when I was adjusting everything I never closed the hood to check my gaps. I really need to bring the passenger side fender in, and the drivers side fender out, for the gaps to be perfect. Oh well, I sure as hell don't want to pull the header back off to do that(at least not now).