Paras bus resto

Discussion in 'Restorations' started by paradox, Aug 10, 2011.

  1. Looks like a bucket:D
     
  2. With some acid in it!! Lol
     
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  4. Para, how does it compare to Citric Acid or Deox C?
     
  5. I couldn’t say as I haven’t used those
     
  6. Brake lever and spring stripped,prepped and painted
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  7. JamesLey

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    I’ve got this to paint. What did you do to the spring for paint?


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  8. I decreased it ,scuffed it up with scotchbrite and sprayed it.
    It won’t stay decent forever because it moves about.
     
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  9. JamesLey

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    Yeah that was my worry. Think I’ll just give it two coats of zinc primer as anything else will probably just crack quickly.


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  10. Just get it chromed :p
     
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  11. A word of warning with this paint
    If it’s been more than two hours since you painted something with it
    It needs two weeks to cure before you can flat it and spray it again ☹️

    I’d pulled the handbrake lever out of the acid dip
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    Then cleaned it up with a strip and clean disc
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    I then etch primed it and when that had dried I sprayed it with the topcoat
    It was fine apart from a couple of runs
    It was drying in the green house for a few hours
    Then dried in front of the fire overnight.

    This morning it was fully dry
    I couldn’t make an imprint in it with my finger and my fingernail couldn’t scratch it.

    I flatted the runs out of it and scotched the rest of it up.

    Everything normal and fine up to this point.
    Then I started to give it an initial mist coat and the paint started reacting.

    So much for trying to speed things up☹️

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  12. Is the acid dip that swarfega stuff you mentioned?
    I went to look for some today and couldn't find any
     
  13. Yes that’s the stuff I get mine from the local farm merchants
     
  14. I've just bought 5kg of citric acid for 12 quid...:hattip:
     
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  15. If it wasent fully cleaned of it would have reacted with the primer or the first coat not the second after flatting back the runs
     
  16. I think the solvent in those paint will soften the first coat if it's not cured..

    There are other paints that do it...
     
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  17. @exuptoy
     
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  18. Had exactly the same yesterday after touching up some restoleum that had only been painted 24 hours earlier with solvent based etch primer. Exactly the same crazing caused by the solvent reacting with oil based enamel.
     
  19. Where from @art b ?
     

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