best and brightest SILVER colour available??

I don't think $75 is that steep of a price, what would it cost to rent a spray booth in the Glasgow area? Here in Eco-Nazi Germany I'd have drive over 100k's to one of the few rental automotive DIY auto shop/ spray booth
locations left, and then pay more than ?40 per hour.

I agree with Paul about doing as much work as possible in your own home shop. If something goes wrong you're only pissed off at yourself and not at a someone who charged you top dollar to do the job....

keep us posted Paul, looking forward to the final paint episode :D
 
Gerald said:
I don't think $75 is that steep of a price, what would it cost to rent a spray booth in the Glasgow area? Here in Eco-Nazi Germany I'd have drive over 100k's to one of the few rental automotive DIY auto shop/ spray booth
locations left, and then pay more than ?40 per hour.

I agree with Paul about doing as much work as possible in your own home shop. If something goes wrong you're only pissed off at yourself and not at a someone who charged you top dollar to do the job....

keep us posted Paul, looking forward to the final paint episode :D
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Great if you are a hobbyist with plenty time, money and no facilities I suppose but would never work for me. To many variables with paint and, in accordance with the law of sod, it normally goes wrong at the end of the process not the beginning...I give it to a professional, if it fucks up its his problem.


  Keith
 
Friday evening, I have been letting the prepped parts rest for a day. Bright sunny afternoon and early evening, I took the parts out into the bright direct sunshine and found a few more minor flaws.

took everything out into the garage, got a big bowl of water, and started wet sanding with 800 grit. Along comes my 23 year old son, the professional high end auto detailer, and starts criticizing my technique and my "harshness".

so guess what happened? He who criticizes gets put to work! :o 8) ;) I gave him a couple of sheets of 800 grit, a couple of different sized sanding pads, a fresh bowl of water, a big spray bottle of final wipe solvent, some clean micro fiber towels, and a big fresh new tack cloth..... and walked away..... :LOL: :LOL: :LOL: :LOL:

in all truth, I am sick of sanding, I have been at this for pretty much 5 flipping weeks, and I probably was being a bit rough for final detail sanding, just trying to get it done and ready, but it worked out OK in the end. I did try and get him to come along tomorrow morning to the spray rental booth, but he is just not interested, bloody hell......

Paul LeClair
 
so, get to the rental paint spray booth on time this morning with all my prepared and ready to spray Laverda parts only to find the rental booth is "down" with fan troubles. Will have to re book for another day, probably for next weekend. I hate having to rely on other people............ ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)

Paul LeClair
 
Kismet Paul! That injured finger will heal more 'till next weekend and you'll have better control of the paint gun, resulting in a better paint job ;)
 
Will have to re book for another day, probably for next weekend. I hate having to rely on other people............
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Build your own booth, you know you want to... :D
 
yes, I would very much like my own paint booth, and my own dyno, and my own machine shop and .......... ;)

not going to happen where I live at present, would have to move to the country to be able to do that, and maybe not even then.

my local Canadian Tire has a car shelter on blowout sale, this one    http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/clearview-peak-garage-11-x-16-x-8-ft-0370021p.html#.VPvNLuk5BhE    cheap outdoor car shelter, but they presently have three of them available at $104 each. That would be cheaper and easier than building another of my temporary paint booths, would make a decent temporary paint booth with the addition of a fan or two and some filters, and cheaper than pro paint booth rental time... hmmmmmmm. ::) ::) ::) ::) ::) ::)

Paul LeClair
 
really interesting to me. I had all the paint preparation and bodywork done perfectly, and was going to paint last weekend, but the paint booth was not available. Just as well. Now, having sat for a few more days, my hugely repaired 82 Jota fairing is bubbling and pitting in a couple of the repaired areas. All the other parts remain fine.

I am going to rework the areas of the Jota fairing that now need attention, turned out to be a positive thing I couldn't paint last weekend! Everything happens for a reason, I guess. The repairs on the crashed Jota fairing were to grind all the broken bits back, then fiberglass cloth and resin, then grind that back, then a fiberglass specific body filler applied thinly, then ground and sanded back, then a thin surface coat filler, sanded back, then three successive coats of high build/high solids primer, sanded back between each coat, then finish sanded to 800 grit. Looked perfect when finished, now doesn't look so perfect. I will cut back the areas showing activity, and refinish before paint, hopefully that will solve whatever the issues are.....

Silver metallic paint shows every imperfection, the body prep has to be flawless. Attached two photos of the water base silver metallic I had mixed up, picked from a book of colour samples as the brightest most brilliant silver metallic I could find. I am going to refrain from adding prismatic micro flake to it though ;) ;) :o I have also found and purchased red pin stripping tape that is very similar to the stock TS Mirage dual pinstripes.

Paul LeClair
 

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I have also found and purchased red pin stripping tape that is very similar to the stock TS Mirage dual pinstripes.
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Tape?  Ewww, get it done properly.
 
Reggie3cl said:
Tape?  Ewww, get it done properly.
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Hi Reggie

the Laverda factory used pin stripe tape, the adhesive on the bloody stuff had destroyed the clear coat over top of them and also etched all the way through the original paint and primer down into the plastic body panels, I had to sand the resulting mess down and do minor skim coat fill to make everything flat again.

besides, I am not sure I even like the stock red stripes, I am going to decide if I am even going to stripe until after I am finishing painting, cut and polish, etc., and even if I do stripe it is going to be over the clear so I am still free to change my mind later.......

Paul LeClair
 
Nasty, work you could have done without, I'm sure.  I checked out some panels at Keith's a while back that were done with paint, not tape, and OK, they weren't factory, but they looked the business, and no high spots to leave your clearcoat vulnerable.
 
My Jota 120 paintwork is like that Reggie, the 'pinstripes' are actually painted gold stripes which were painstakingly masked off by my painter.
As you say it really looks nice and dead flat.
 
Hi Simon and Reggie

no argument from me that pin striping is belter done with painstaking precision with paint, then cleared over, for a top quality job.

Pin stripe tape also has its place, being both original and removable. I have a problem with commitment........  ::)

Paul LeClair
 
A mate used to do it,not hand striping but you paint the whole bit the colour of the pinstrip,mask that and then paint the major colour hoping it doesn't bleed under the tape.
 
breganzane said:
I wanted to do painted pinstripes on my recent 81 Jota build but couldn't find anyone to do it.
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Hi Steve

lots of hand pin stripers local to me, I know them through my involvement in my daughter's business.    http://blamebetty.com/

Problem is that they wouldn't want to stop at a stock striping job, would want to add lots of artistic flourishes, very Von Dutch. Hmmmmm... 8)

if any of you want a very retro but DOT approved and Limited Edition, No. 13, 3/4 motorcycle helmet, look under Men's Items, it is on sale at present at half price roughly to celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of the business  http://blamebetty.com/no-13-motorcycle-helmet

Paul LeClair

ps if you click on the helmet link, then click on the "How to Measure Yourself" video, not that it has anything to do with fitting a helmet but most of you will probably enjoy it anyway...... ;)
 
Saw the advert for pomade below the No 13 helmet. Personally, I'm a Dapper Dan man ;).
 
Glad you picked up the reference Paul, anything by the Coen brothers has got to right up there with the best movies ever :D.
 
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