What Did You Do This Saterday?

[monkip1]

I started Saterday morning with a coffee and with a aim. My aim was to kill off the stone chips on my bumper with my handy palm sander. Prime, Respray and laqure the bumper.

This is what the bumper started off looking like.

Its been embarressing washing the car and polishing it to clean the bumpoer and splitter and seeing the eye sore thats bene on my bumper for ages. So I spent most of the morning and early afternoon preping the bumper ready for spraying.

Once the prep work was complete I proceeded to mask off the areas for priming and primed the bumper.

Ignore some of the masking work, Trying to mask around the spot lamps was a hell of a night mare! And With the base coat on (Colour coat) I started to mix up the laqure.

And Once the laqure was applied and left to dry under the Infra Red lamps for 30mins to 45minuets This is the finished result.

To be honest I look at the car sitting on the drive and it feels like the prestegeous limited edition 243 that I bought around this time in 2007. All spotless and sexy looking. It feels like the car has a new breath of life now and I feel alot more proud about owning her. Next stop on the bumper is spraying my chip coat on there to stop stonechips from destroying my lovley paint again.

But I must press on to other matters that need attention, like FINDING THAT ANTHRACITE PAINT CODE!!! lol

[little vodka goblin]

looking really good Ben.. When you coming to do mine?

[rio180]

Nice job, i am going to try and do mine with a spray can,not the best way but needs must.

[monkip1]

Nice job, i am going to try and do mine with a spray can,not the best way but needs must.

Primers all come in spray cans, be careful when spraying them as the tip of your finger can sometimes go over the edge of the nozzil and interfear with the spray. All my primeras and tints are very quickdrying, about a minuet per a coat with a heat gun. Not sure what halfords primers ect are like with drying times.

Also I matched my paint exsactly with my spectrometer, and applyed it with my own compressor and spray gun. As my paints metallic it needs to come out of the nossel of my gun with pressure otherwise it wont sit correctly on the surface of the area being sprayed.

If your redoing your whole bumper like I did, I would if I was you get a professonal to do it as if you dont overlap each pass with the spray gun or can by 50% each time and blend out the new paint with old its going to look patchy and sub standard.

Hope it goes well for you thought bud if you do decide to do it. Any problems give me a pm

Edited February 8, 2010 by MonkiP1

[monkip1]

looking really good Ben.. When you coming to do mine?

When I can have a decent pic of the damage lol

[little vodka goblin]

When I can have a decent pic of the damage lol

I can't take a pic of the damage - it's too scary!

[edmondo]

mine mine mine Ben

[scooby princess]

i went to work and then babysat from 11.30am - 11.45pm (sat) and then finished painting a new porch and laid the flooring down

[monkip1]

i went to work and then babysat from 11.30am - 11.45pm (sat) and then finished painting a new porch and laid the flooring down

Wicked sounds like a full filling day SP.

[edmondo]

have spent the day redecorating the bedroom - even missed Everton beat Man U

[kevlorn]

pmsl...not your choice though ed...

[edmondo]

had to help

[kevlorn]

bet you had a fried breaky to kick start it..

[edmondo]

did some painting first

[kevlorn]

pmsl i knew it....bribary

[edmondo]

how dare you............I am not that easy

[kevlorn]

nahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh your right..just food would have started you off..fried never really came into it

[edmondo]

you gotta remember I am a growing lad....................however still losing weight mate.............almost a stone and a half lighter than I was when my chemo finished

[kevlorn]

how much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! never..

[edmondo]

yep -doesnt notice but I have lost 8lb between last weigh in in August and Feb this year

[kevlorn]

how long before your back up to full weight then

[edmondo]

started at 15st before chemo.................up to 18st 6lb after...............now 17st 4lb

[kevlorn]

your different lol. your supposed to loose weight whilst in treatment not pile it on lol...well my theory is fcked now...ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i need to think about this now,,may take a while with my mysteryously large brain lol...(spelling isnt good as beer is involved pmsl)

Edited February 20, 2010 by parker1

[edmondo]

steroids made me put on weight.............and yes beer is involved here as well but can still spell

[kevlorn]

my keyboard skills are going down hill rapidly...yh my old man had steroid treatment and he put shed loads of weight on,but never lost it..fcks you up if you dont control it...your doing well bud..keep it up........................................................lardy (m a piss taker)