{"id":113,"date":"2004-07-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:57:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:57:16","slug":"bel-air\/drivers-door-goes-bit-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=113","title":{"rendered":"Drivers Door goes a Bit Wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Saturday the weather was still bad, so I put a tarpaulin over the shell and pushed it outside. It was only showering now and then, so I didn’t feel too bad about it. A few hours of filling and sanding later, I was still finding slight ripples and having to re-fill bits of it. Another few hours of filling, and it looked OK, so I gave it a finail air sanding and got ready to paint with the new 1.4mm gun I bought from Machine Mart. It didn’t paint well, and left spatter marks in the paint. I messed around with the gun, and got a slightly better result, but still wasn’t happy with it. <\/p>\n

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On Sunday, after fixing everyone and their dogs PC’s, I got out the garage about 5.30pm to have a look at how the paint had dried. It was rough, and had blistered in a few spots. The cheap moisture trap on the compressor had been filling up a lot, so I pulled the compressor out and undid the seal on one end. When I tipped it up, at least two pints of rusty water sloshed out. I kept tipping it till no more came out, cleaned the filter and the fan, and fixed the noisy rattle from the cover. I air sanded the door, cleaned it off with air and clean cloths, and mxed up some more paint. <\/p>\n

\"DoorFactory.jpg\"<\/p>\n

The result from the gun was still dissapointing, but a little better. My backup plan was to try out the 1.2mm Devilbiss SRi gun I had bought on e-bay. I was genuinely amazed at the difference between them. It was smoother, the paint went on much, much flatter and lasted longer. In the end I ran it out on the wall of the garage as I’d painted every bit I could. You can see the result in the pic above. I’m going to pick a colour and shoot a door as a test next. I’ve got plenty to choose from! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday the weather was still bad, so I put a tarpaulin over the shell and pushed it outside. It was only showering now and then, so I didn’t feel too bad about it. A few hours of filling and sanding later, I was still finding slight ripples and having to re-fill bits of it. Another few hours of filling, and it looked OK, so I gave it a finail air sanding and got ready to paint with the new 1.4mm gun I bought from Machine Mart. It didn’t paint well, and left spatter marks in the paint. I messed around with the gun, and got a slightly better result, but still wasn’t happy with it. <\/p>\n

\"DriversDoorSideOn.jpg\"<\/p>\n

On Sunday, after fixing everyone and their dogs PC’s, I got out the garage about 5.30pm to have a look at how the paint had dried. It was rough, and had blistered in a few spots. The cheap moisture trap on the compressor had been filling up a lot, so I pulled the compressor out and undid the seal on one end. When I tipped it up, at least two pints of rusty water sloshed out. I kept tipping it till no more came out, cleaned the filter and the fan, and fixed the noisy rattle from the cover. I air sanded the door, cleaned it off with air and clean cloths, and mxed up some more paint. <\/p>\n

\"DoorFactory.jpg\"<\/p>\n

The result from the gun was still dissapointing, but a little better. My backup plan was to try out the 1.2mm Devilbiss SRi gun I had bought on e-bay. I was genuinely amazed at the difference between them. It was smoother, the paint went on much, much flatter and lasted longer. In the end I ran it out on the wall of the garage as I’d painted every bit I could. You can see the result in the pic above. I’m going to pick a colour and shoot a door as a test next. I’ve got plenty to choose from! <\/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-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","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=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}