powerofdreams Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Looking good mate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 On 2/18/2014 at 11:41 AM, Krzys said: It was my first time doing that sort of thing so wanted to make sure I think just a rough surface rather than total annihilation will do, or as you said, 10 minutes sanding! Its just about taking that 'shine' off it .. So the primer has an adhesive surface to stick onto .. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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KiNK43 Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 Looking cool. Lights look so much better ay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krzys Posted February 19, 2014 Author Share Posted February 19, 2014 On 2/18/2014 at 9:46 PM, Grant-SBP- said: Its just about taking that 'shine' off it .. So the primer has an adhesive surface to stick onto ..Aye! I went for that paints4u site Nick linked in another thread, £23 or so for the relevant wet & dry, primer, PB paint and lacquer, think it was a 4 or 500ml can too which I'd have thought would be more than enough for the grill and rear strip! Will get it ordered when I get paid next week! With regards to sand paper, I know that there are differing levels or coarse/fine, are the lowered numbered ones finer? Ie, start with 1200 and work down the lower numbered ones? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiNK43 Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 The bigger the number the finer it is.It's all about sandy bits per inch.So 180 has 180 coarse bits per inch. 1200 has 1200 finer bits per inch.Something like that anyway 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIKH25 Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 On 2/18/2014 at 9:46 PM, Grant-SBP- said: Its just about taking that 'shine' off it .. So the primer has an adhesive surface to stick onto .. Exactly that. On 2/19/2014 at 8:31 AM, Krzys said: Aye! I went for that paints4u site Nick linked in another thread, £23 or so for the relevant wet & dry, primer, PB paint and lacquer, think it was 4 or 500ml can too which I'd have thought would be more than enough for the grill and rear strip! Will get it ordered when I get paid next week! With regards to sand paper, I know that there are differing levels or coarse/fine, are the lowered numbered ones finer? Ie, start with 1200 and work down the lower numbered ones? 4 x 500ml, I should hope you'd have a bit left over from that. As Jake said the lower the number the more coarse the paper, 400 or 600 should be coarse enough to take the shine off and give it a key then move up to 800 and 1200, wipe it with a degreaser, whack some primer on, let it dry, hit that with a wet piece of 2000, allow it to dry again, wipe it with degreaser, light coat of paint, leave it 10 mins, slightly heavier coat, 10 more mins, heavier again coat, when that's dry wet 2000 again (lightly) dry, wipe down and lacquer building up again. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krzys Posted February 19, 2014 Author Share Posted February 19, 2014 On 2/19/2014 at 9:33 AM, NIKH25 said: Exactly that. 4 x 500ml, I should hope you'd have a bit left over from that. As Jake said the lower the number the more coarse the paper, 400 or 600 should be coarse enough to take the shine off and give it a key then move up to 800 and 1200, wipe it with a degreaser, whack some primer on, let it dry, hit that with a wet piece of 2000, allow it to dry again, wipe it with degreaser, light coat of paint, leave it 10 mins, slightly heavier coat, 10 more mins, heavier again coat, when that's dry wet 2000 again (lightly) dry, wipe down and lacquer building up again.Excellent! Not 4 x 500ml cans, a 400ml or 500ml can, just the one Cheers Jake & Nick! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIKH25 Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 On 2/19/2014 at 10:01 AM, Krzys said: Excellent! Not 4 x 500ml cans, a 400ml or 500ml can, just the one Cheers Jake & Nick! Must read things properly I think it's a 500ml, anyway you should only need about a quarter for those little bits. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grant Posted February 19, 2014 Share Posted February 19, 2014 On 2/19/2014 at 10:09 AM, NIKH25 said: Must read things properly I think it's a 500ml, anyway you should only need about a quarter for those little bits. In fairness I thought he meant x4 500 ml cans too! Ha that would do both bumpers!! Lol. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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