• What Did You Work on Today? (DIY pros ITT) V2
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I had a ton of rock chips and a little rust bubble on my hood. I ground that ish off and proceeded to give it a little refresher. [url=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/clutch1234017/8-9032_zpsf60cb44d.jpg.html][img]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/clutch1234017/8-9032_zpsf60cb44d.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/clutch1234017/8-9033_zps26832fce.jpg.html][img]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/clutch1234017/8-9033_zps26832fce.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/clutch1234017/8-9034_zps84ea1ebb.jpg.html][img]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/clutch1234017/8-9034_zps84ea1ebb.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/clutch1234017/8-9035_zpsc0296967.jpg.html][img]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/clutch1234017/8-9035_zpsc0296967.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/clutch1234017/8-9036_zps62033252.jpg.html][img]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/clutch1234017/8-9036_zps62033252.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/clutch1234017/8-9037_zps18965ffe.jpg.html][img]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/clutch1234017/8-9037_zps18965ffe.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/clutch1234017/8-9038_zps2277a871.jpg.html][img]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/clutch1234017/8-9038_zps2277a871.jpg[/img][/url] Tomorrow with my day off I'm gonna sand it a bit and clear it again, to finish burying the flake. exciting times.
Who'd you massacre in the first photo?
That's a nice finish for outdoors. Did you lay the flake on after the base, or in it?
The finish is really rough over the flake still. It's about a quarter jar of red .008" flake. Red base goes down, then flake in an intercoat clear to carry it. Problem is that leaves a very rough finish where you spray flake. I put a full cup of clear over it so far, so it's basically buried, but still a rough finish. You can see the difference between the red and white finish in the 3rd to last photo. After I knock it down just a tad with some 600 grit tomorrow and squirt another cup of clear on it'll be good. The tough part when you're working with colored flakes is that you can't hit them when sanding otherwise you knock their color off and they're left silver and stand out like a sore thumb. So before sanding you've gotta bury them completely. That's why a lot of people shoot silver, silver flake, then clear it a ton and sand so it's perfectly flat before moving on to candy to color it to their liking.
[QUOTE=clutch2;45645891]The finish is really rough over the flake still. It's about a quarter jar of red .008" flake. Red base goes down, then flake in an intercoat clear to carry it. Problem is that leaves a very rough finish where you spray flake. I put a full cup of clear over it so far, so it's basically buried, but still a rough finish. You can see the difference between the red and white finish in the 3rd to last photo. After I knock it down just a tad with some 600 grit tomorrow and squirt another cup of clear on it'll be good. The tough part when you're working with colored flakes is that you can't hit them when sanding otherwise you knock their color off and they're left silver and stand out like a sore thumb. So before sanding you've gotta bury them completely. That's why a lot of people shoot silver, silver flake, then clear it a ton and sand so it's perfectly flat before moving on to candy to color it to their liking.[/QUOTE] The only metallics I've messed with was I laid down a silver coat, metal, then red "anodized" clearish paint to finish. I did it all while the silver was still wet. Turned out ok, but after that you get no recoat at all, because the paint covers up the metal flake which is kind of mixed into the red. It helped knock it down. After that I laid out a bunch of clear coats, and then kicked it down after the 3rd coat, and every coat after, then polished the final coat after a 2000g sanding. It's the same ordeal when you lay out carbon fiber - once you go to clear coat it, it's not perfectly smooth, and it's better to have 2 layers of cf, or black underneath if you are going for a finished look. Hard stuff to do. Also with metallics, you can't really use a regular gravity gun, since it has to be constantly mixed, but your paint looks like it turned out fine. Just keep clearing it and knock it down every coat. It'll turn out.
[QUOTE=Serj22;45644279]I had to run my actuator rod like this in my back doors, and it failed, I had it bent exactly like you did because the rod goes horizontal. It quit coming apart when I moved the actuator down towards the same level as the rod. Just saying you may experience difficulties.[/QUOTE] Balls, I was worried about that. Luckily I only did one. Unluckily, it was the drivers door... There aren't many places to put them, unfortunately.
I use a gravity gun. You just need to put a marble in the cup and keep it shaken from time to time. That red 'anodized' paint you used is what's called a candy. Basically you did what most pros do when they're shooting a candied flake job, but you missed the step in between the flakes and candy where you lay a ton of clear to bury it before candy. That way you don't run the risk of burning the flake when you sand it. This is what happens when you sand colored flake with not enough clear on top, or when you sand candied silver flake with no clear in between the candy and flake; [img]http://image.carcraft.com/f/techarticles/ccrp_0912_metalflake_paint_job/26725684/ccrp_0912_09%2B1967_amc_rambler%2Bmetalflake_paint_job.jpg[/img] If it happens to a candy job you just have to blend in a little more candy to change the flakes' color again.. if it's on a color flake job now you fucked up. The big thing to remember when you're shooting clear to bury things like flake is that you want the lowest part of the clear to be higher than the highest part of the metal flakes. That way once you have it sanded perfectly flat with 800 grit or so you can sand up to 2000grit, as Serj mentioned, then buff and polish. That's how you get a mirror finish. Here's a candy job on my motorcycle from a couple years ago; silver base, followed by a bunch of silver flake, then clear [URL=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/DSC01146.jpg.html][IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/DSC01146.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/DSC01145.jpg.html][IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/DSC01145.jpg[/IMG][/URL] After that it gets a green tinted coat, which is the candy. It doesn't cover like an actual basecoat, thus the sparkles and stuff show through and you can tint them any color you want! [URL=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/DSC01157.jpg.html][IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/DSC01157.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/DSC01168.jpg.html][IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/DSC01168.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Here it is a few years later [URL=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/5-4009_zpsff231b5b.jpg.html][IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/5-4009_zpsff231b5b.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
The gun I use with metals has a little rotating mixer arm that encompasses the can. A marble would work too I guess. Not bad idea. Yes the anodized stuff is I guess the candy coat. I just call it anodize junk cause that's what it reminds me of. lol. When I do a varnish on a boat, it takes roughly about 20 coats to get everything even. You can start sanding after about 5, but if you don't make the varnish higher than the plugs, you sand into a plug, and then it's all fucked and needs to be stripped. Takes about 5 gallons roughly per boat. All brushed. [URL=http://s43.photobucket.com/user/serj22/media/1947%20Hacker/IMG_20140213_183550_zps11d9fde5.jpg.html][IMG]http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e356/serj22/1947%20Hacker/IMG_20140213_183550_zps11d9fde5.jpg[/IMG][/URL] That was at coat 5. We're on 12 now. [editline]10th August 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=benjgvps;45646086]Balls, I was worried about that. Luckily I only did one. Unluckily, it was the drivers door... There aren't many places to put them, unfortunately.[/QUOTE] This is before I refined the bend and was still fitting it, but as you see, it's the same idea you got going on. It failed after 3 months the bend just moved. I remounted the actuator closer to the rod where it would clear and it functioned flawlessly after. Before it had to take up slack in the loop like you have and then yanked on it. [URL=http://s43.photobucket.com/user/serj22/media/CAM01998_zps52970091.jpg.html][IMG]http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e356/serj22/CAM01998_zps52970091.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
Clutch I just want to say again, you do some beautiful work man.
Pretty sure I left off with having my wheels sprayed, anyways they're on the car and the stickers arrived. [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5601782/EF%20HX%20Wheels/2014-08-08%2014.22.37.jpg[/t] [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5601782/EF%20HX%20Wheels/2014-08-08%2014.56.21.jpg[/t] I have a bunch of parts sitting around and on order, I'm gonna have way too much stuff to post in the next few weeks.
[QUOTE=c0nk3r;45647826]Clutch I just want to say again, you do some beautiful work man.[/QUOTE] Clutch is seriously an artist. If I could do half the stuff he can, I'd be amazing.
I would have finished my power locking today, though I ran out of spade terminals and the Canadian Tire down the street doesn't carry the right ones. I found a better place to put the actuators in the doors, at the cost of having to remove one plastic trim clip. Not that it matters anyway, I'm sure the car rattled off the assembly line. If I have time tomorrow, I'll head over to Princess Auto for some spade terminals to finish the last door and maybe adjust the actuator I did first. [t]http://i.imgur.com/bNx9OeU.jpg[/t] It works great so far, once I lock one of the front ones, the other two lock perfectly. I've been unlocking and locking it a bunch of times. It's exciting.
Didn't do much of anything today, but made 3 0-60 runs in the miata and my best time was 10.2 seconds :v:
Here's the finished up hood project; First I knocked down the texture in the clear with 400, followed by sanding the whole hood with 600 [URL=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/clutch1234018/8-11001_zpsa16cd15f.jpg.html][IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/clutch1234018/8-11001_zpsa16cd15f.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/clutch1234018/8-11002_zps1b0539be.jpg.html][IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/clutch1234018/8-11002_zps1b0539be.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Much flatter now you can see Then I loaded up and shot clear onto it until I was happy enough with the finish [URL=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/clutch1234018/8-11005_zps210aedd9.jpg.html][IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/clutch1234018/8-11005_zps210aedd9.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/clutch1234018/8-11006_zps155ad510.jpg.html][IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/clutch1234018/8-11006_zps155ad510.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Let it cure for the afternoon then mounted it. Also, bonus this is all 3 of my vehicles in one picture! [URL=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/clutch1234018/8-11009_zpsa283995f.jpg.html][IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/clutch1234018/8-11009_zpsa283995f.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Streetlights make flake and pearl look super wet. Always looks nice at night that way [URL=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/clutch1234018/8-11011_zps3a79d2d3.jpg.html][IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/clutch1234018/8-11011_zps3a79d2d3.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/clutch1234018/8-11012_zps39ce57b1.jpg.html][IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/clutch1234018/8-11012_zps39ce57b1.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Next up... Cavalier needs a scuff n' shoot so it can be sold. Gonna do a little bit of bodywork just to fill a couple dents and mud a couple rusties so it looks worth a shit to sell it. Took an hour and stripped it down enough for paint [URL=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/clutch1234018/8-11003_zps461ab281.jpg.html][IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/clutch1234018/8-11003_zps461ab281.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/clutch1234018/8-11004_zps5c3d0597.jpg.html][IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/clutch1234018/8-11004_zps5c3d0597.jpg[/IMG][/URL] And started wet sanding a bit, also jamb'd the silver door with a spray can [URL=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/clutch1234018/8-11010_zps4110cdad.jpg.html][IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/clutch1234018/8-11010_zps4110cdad.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I have a long time before I need the cav done.. so I'll poke along here n there.
Looks nice. You definitly have the most mad tyte JDM Geoyota.
Wheel stud replacement wasnt as hard as I thought [T]http://i.imgur.com/avrCkmv.jpg[/t]
Spent an hour or so today with my grandpa putting a hitch on my grandmas '10 Transit Connect so she could put one of them mobility scooter carrier things on the back of it. Turned out alright and whatnot
That's a pretty clean shop shiban, does any work get done there? :v:
Like your shop is so damn messy, clutch.
I just put (way too much) brake anti-squeal on my left front, trying to see if it fixes my noise issue, turns out the outer pad is like 2mm left and thicker at the top than bottom, inner is like new. I'm gonna take the car to the mechanic next week and hope I don't have to get this swapped too soon since I'm kinda short on money.
[QUOTE=sHiBaN;45680542]Wheel stud replacement wasnt as hard as I thought [T]http://i.imgur.com/avrCkmv.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Obv a filipino.
rear brake line burst in our Lincoln TC so I started ripping the old lines out (doing all of em cause fuck doing it again) it's a PITA though cause all the damn fittings are rusty as fuck soaking all the fittings with PB blaster now gotta love living just far enough north for summer and winter to suck
[QUOTE=PandaJuggernaut;45702344]rear brake line burst in our Lincoln TC so I started ripping the old lines out (doing all of em cause fuck doing it again) it's a PITA though cause all the damn fittings are rusty as fuck soaking all the fittings with PB blaster now gotta love living just far enough north for summer and winter to suck[/QUOTE] PB blaster, TINY pipe wrench (talking 6'' long), vise-grips and a blow torch are your friend. Don't forget to try to crack your bleeders NOW so you know if you need them before you're trying to bleed the brakes at 11pm.
[QUOTE=Gulen;45696497]Like your shop is so damn messy, clutch.[/QUOTE] For a shop that only really does 'light' auto work, interiors, electrical, and basic cosmetic mods it gets pretty messy, lol. [URL=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/IMG_0349_zps7ab889b8.jpg.html][IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/IMG_0349_zps7ab889b8.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I'm used to like, tool benches full of tools and random shit from the independent shop I worked at. That poor man is running solo as a mechanic with a secretary right now. He's too busy too clean, or sleep.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/IZDjBdD.jpg[/t] Retrieved my '86 MR-2 from the guy I bought it from, tomorrow the fun begins.
Can't wait to see dis :)
[QUOTE=clutch2;45704294]For a shop that only really does 'light' auto work, interiors, electrical, and basic cosmetic mods it gets pretty messy, lol.[/QUOTE] We try to keep it clean as much as we can; but it can get pretty messy at times. Like when a BMW needed a trans flush and filter change. Let's just say I put on a new cologne that day
What is the general method for a trans flush?
[QUOTE=clutch2;45704294]For a shop that only really does 'light' auto work, interiors, electrical, and basic cosmetic mods it gets pretty messy, lol. [URL=http://s22.photobucket.com/user/clutch1234/media/IMG_0349_zps7ab889b8.jpg.html][IMG]http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b340/clutch1234/IMG_0349_zps7ab889b8.jpg[/IMG][/URL] I'm used to like, tool benches full of tools and random shit from the independent shop I worked at. That poor man is running solo as a mechanic with a secretary right now. He's too busy too clean, or sleep.[/QUOTE] Damn, even your hair is messy. Also, what's with all your glue guns? And what's all that shit hanging on the rack in the background?
Hair looks like a wig lol
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