{"id":104,"date":"2004-05-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:57:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:57:16","slug":"bel-air\/first-go-painting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=104","title":{"rendered":"First go at Painting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did some more sanding and filling this weekend. I was determined to have a go with the gun and paint I had bought the other day. Bob came over and gave me a hand with the sanding, so we got the wing just about done. I was extremely nervous about using the paint as I could smell through the mask which didn&#8217;t seem right at all. I used most of the paint that I had mixed setting the gun up, then had a go on the panel. I realised straight away the pressure was too low, re-set it and then ran out of paint. I washed the gun out and closed the garage up for the night. Later I realised the filters were not seated properly and one of the one way breathers was folded open.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/05\/ClarkeGun.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"343\" alt=\"ClarkeGun.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, I sanded out the areas I was not happy with and re-filled some of it. I was running out of time so vacced the garage out, cleaned the dust off and pushed the car back in. It was earlier than I had thought, so decided to have another go at painting. I&#8217;d read up about how to set the gun up on the net, but it was set too heavy for me and I got a run. I re-set it and sprayed the rest of the panel without any problems. Dunno if it&#8217;s good, bad or indifferent, but I&#8217;m happy. Could&#8217;nt smell paint either. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/05\/OohItsPainted.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"334\" alt=\"OohItsPainted.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did some more sanding and filling this weekend. I was determined to have a go with the gun and paint I had bought the other day. Bob came over and gave me a hand with the sanding, so we got the wing just about done. I was extremely nervous about using the paint as I could smell through the mask which didn&#8217;t seem right at all. I used most of the paint that I had mixed setting the gun up, then had a go on the panel. I realised straight away the pressure was too low, re-set it and then ran out of paint. I washed the gun out and closed the garage up for the night. Later I realised the filters were not seated properly and one of the one way breathers was folded open.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/05\/ClarkeGun.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"343\" alt=\"ClarkeGun.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sunday, I sanded out the areas I was not happy with and re-filled some of it. I was running out of time so vacced the garage out, cleaned the dust off and pushed the car back in. It was earlier than I had thought, so decided to have another go at painting. I&#8217;d read up about how to set the gun up on the net, but it was set too heavy for me and I got a run. I re-set it and sprayed the rest of the panel without any problems. Dunno if it&#8217;s good, bad or indifferent, but I&#8217;m happy. Could&#8217;nt smell paint either. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/05\/OohItsPainted.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"334\" alt=\"OohItsPainted.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}