From: Patrick Jankowiak (eccm@swbell.net)
Date: Sat Feb 22 2003 - 09:33:12 PST
with regards to grease gun fights and splattered grease and painintg,
any small amount of grease or oil can cause problems. Even after
meticulously cleaning the inside of my GRM-23D shelter, the high gloss
pain I apllied has gotten a few small bad spots in it, mostly on the
ceiling. I beleive that this is due to the shelter having been used (I
think) to store greasy/oily old MV parts and other crap for years, and
the vapors from these, combined with moisture, during hot/cold/wet/dry
cycles, have in a few cases worked their way tightly onto the surface
of the aluminum. I think that more scrubbing would have eliminated
this problem.
MVTrucker@aol.com wrote:
>
> Frank,
> Maybe Aervoe did change heir formula. Or, you
> don't park your vehicles out in the sun; this is
> what always caused my problems. Maybe it was
> three years ago that I painted the trailer, time
> seems to go so fast. I've had more than the
> trailer fade to pink, or whitish, or both. A
> hard cab top, M37 and other vehicles. I shot
> my M135, years ago. Gillespie late WWII semi-
> gloss, from Army Jeep Parts. This truck sat under
> a car (truck) port, so the sun was able to beat on
> the sides of the truck. It never faded. Did my 1945
> MB in 1992 and it still looks great.
> Another tip is to wipe the vehicle down with tack
> rags. These are bees wax coated cloths that
> snatch up dust, a major problem when trying to
> achieve a real nice finish. Not so bad with mil-spec
> paint and colors, but dust really stands out after
> shooting a high gloss top coat. Do the wipe after
> sanding and masking is completed. Blow all the
> crevices out, too. It's sickening when you make a
> pass spraying and dust flies out and onto the
> new paint being applied.
> Did my lungs Royal Blue, in 1959, shooting my
> first spray job. Borrowed a gun and went at it
> indoors. No exhaust fan or respirator. I didn't
> know any better, so I coughed and blew blue
> paint out of my system for days.
> Another lesson learned in the early days was not
> to have an air powered grease gun(s) fight
> prior to painting, the results will be a disaster.
> Little specks of grease were all over the car,
> after our shoot out and the first coat of primer
> bubbled up all over, so we had to remove it with
> gallons lacquer thinner. We had used a lacquer type
> primer -- fast drying.
> Joe "in the know about grease gun fights" Young
>
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