He's one I've always wondered, when you all do a refurb and repaint of the parts on the bus, such as spindles, front beams etc... What paint do you use and how do you do it, (not as in paint brush or spray can but as in prep, undercoat, rust prevention etc)? I'm planning my winter work early and thought it might be something I can do on the kitchen table on the cold dark nights.
I don't normally paint my bits as such, I just hold my pants out of the way and dip them in a bowl of paint
On The parts im doing at the moment i Burn any waxoyl with a butane blow torch as it makes it more of a solid Wire brush them back to clean bare metal degrease them with parrafin or white spirit Mask and then spray them with upol acid etch Then paint with tractor enamel using a brush building up thin coats The above approach works well with engines aswell
I tend to wire brush then scrub the bit up with whatever is lying around white spirit usually, and then paint them up with satin black rustoleum a couple of thinned down coats seems to bring it all up nice. Oh and if theres bits i cant get to where theres light surface rust I'll give it a bit of a bath in metal ready. All bar the drum backing plates in this pic were done like that.
i used black por15 to paint the spindles, beam and steering component on my van, brush on and it flows out with no brush marks looks like plastic coating when its dry
