"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
04/08/2018 at 12:01 • Filed to: None
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"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
04/08/2018 at 12:01 • Filed to: None | 2
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Wooh! Kinja is workin’ wonders! So i thought I’d bring yall along on an oddly productive moment for me. The wifes RAV4 wheels need serious help. So i’m paintin’ today!
First order of business was to fire up the garage band. 102.3 open air in Colorado at the moment is pretty good.
Step one was to clean them. So I used Simple Green foaming bike wash because its great on dirty bike frames and easy to aggitate with a wheel brush and rinse. Dry. Then i attacked them with a wire wheel drill bit.
($exy tools are so sexy!) I did that and boy thats so much better on steel than liberally applied elbow grease. Of course elbow grease don’t do this:
No matter how sexy your tools, sometimes sexy hurts. That was just a brief and miniscule wire wheel scrape at that! (This pic is the day after.) I can’t imagine losing serious skin in a real shop accident. Anyway, I stood the tires up and whipped them with a towel since I dont yet have live air in my garage. I got a can of acetone (todays ACE store bought stuff is not really the full on acetone we had before.) and cleaned them up nice with blue paper towels. Then scuffed them with 320 grit sandpaper since were all out of scotch brite pads. That was yesterday.
Today i hit em with the prep-all and wiped crazy clean. Couldnt find my huge stash of index cards but did find an enormous stack of photo paper. (do they still give free packs of it with ink purchase?) They give more paper than the ink they sell can print! We’re never going to print that many pictures. But they make for great mask and blocking material. Taped the stems, and let em have it with primer.
Coat one. Primer is all kinds of flat so even coats are nice for looks, but primer? At least try for even just so it dries, um, evenly. Two coats of it 30mins apart and I should be able to paint in an hour or so.
I’m using an N95 breathing mask. I learned my lesson after painting the big green desk with 8 cans and blew green paint out my nose for a week after. Im disappointed they haven’t created a citrus or lemon scented mask cause the smell still gets in, just not the particulates.
Well see later today how they turn out in part 2!
HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute
> Grindintosecond
04/08/2018 at 12:08 |
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How many fumes did you inhale
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> HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute
04/08/2018 at 12:21 |
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the garage door IS open...
Since its gonna be 62 today. Its so windy though right now. 72 tomorrow. 76 wednesday, then 50 Thursday. Colorado weather is so screwy.
MM54
> Grindintosecond
04/08/2018 at 12:45 |
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I’ve never used rattle-can etch primer, is it as nasty as the real 2-part stuff that
will
etch anything it gets overspray on, like glasses and Mini windows?
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> MM54
04/08/2018 at 12:59 |
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Apaently not.
ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> Grindintosecond
04/08/2018 at 14:00 |
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https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004Z4EB/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
One of these guys with some VOC filters is a good way to go. I sprayed my entire racecar in the (partially open with a fan sucking air out) garage with a two-part single stage urethane paint with an old school suction gun and never smelled a thing. When I was done and took the respirator off, it was a holy shit moment to be hit how strong the fumes were and well the respirator worked.
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> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
04/08/2018 at 14:07 |
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Thank you. Im definitely gonna get something like that when the mini gets its restoration.
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> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
04/08/2018 at 15:49 |
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Definitely the least that should be used with auto paints. If you can smell the paint, you’ve got the wrong mask. Gotta take care of your lungs. I picked up a full face 3m with the organic pink filters and it’s awesome! Worth every penny. No fumes get in and keeps your eyes protected as well.
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> Grindintosecond
04/08/2018 at 15:53 |
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3M 7162 Full-Facepiece Spray Paint Respirator - Organic Vapor https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002STR86/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_-jNYAb5BXRXSR
3M Organic Vapor Cartridge/Filter 60921, P100 Respiratory Protection (Pack of 2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BT2SWTE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_1kNYAbAWK90RG
Worth every penny. No fumes get to your face or eyes. I’ve used one cartridge to do a full respray and then a few touch up jobs before I had to replace the pink cartridges.
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ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> merged-5876237249235911857-hrw8uc
04/08/2018 at 19:54 |
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Indeed. When I sprayed the car I wore the respirator, googles, gloves, booties and a hooded tyvek suit. Isocynates are no joke.
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> ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
04/09/2018 at 11:18 |
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The thing I really like about the Full face mask is that I can spray in my garage, completely closed up and not have to breathe the nasties. But I can keep the wind and the dust out while I’m doing little projects and when the paint cures, I can just open the garage door to ventilate. Makes it nice to not have to worry about working in the overspray haze.
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> MM54
04/13/2018 at 11:13 |
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Wanted to add to this. The rattle can stuff I used laid down well with very little overspray if any at all. the large form 4x6 cards there caught any of it and it got nowhere else. It was a pretty clean product. Now the actual wheel paint went on like the traditional spray can with particulates making a cloud around the wheel.