i think ill paint up my stuff in a year or so if i get some money and i would like some advice on the painting of the machines
A good paint job is all in the prep, painting is the easy part. Just good cleaning isn't enough, you need to skuff with a sander or sandblast ( if needed) the old paint or the new will peel off. Clean and prep, primer, finish color, it's alot of work but sure looks nice when you're done. If you're luck is like mine you'll have to work in a mud hole 1st job after paint
Dpete is right. It takes ALOT of time to do it right. Not to mention decals. I did my little D3 last winter, and the end product was great. But plan on spending some time to do it right...
i painted a d4 last winter and this winter i think the boss wants a d6 and our 350 painted. to start off we sand blasted it and primed it in the first day. with that said i would have liked to have the time to sand it after blasting painting directly afterwards leaves it kind of rough and pitted. we used self etching primer reduced to recomended and cat yellow acrylic enamel also reduced to recomended least amount or reducer seemed best along with a hardner. now i painted it all with a small automotive paint sprayer took forever 2 coats of primer and 3 coats of yellow looked great when done. i would have liked to have a larger paint pot less stoping to mix paint and fill gun. my neighbors own a body shop and paint anything and everything they recomended going to a airless paint sprayer they said you dont have to mess around so much with reducer you can still add hardner much faster. painting with air i fugured out by the end lower air pressure worked good i think i was only running around 10 or 15 psi to the gun at about 1 or 1 1/2 ft away from machine and not geting any runs in the pain sure i got a few but not as many as i figured i would.
I guess there is no way to blast without pitting, boy i wish there was.
I think it depends on the grit that you use, and even then its probably nothing that you're going to see if you put on a couple coats of paint. CJ
Those little sand pits really give the paint something to grab on to, it will never peel off, a good primer will hide most of it.
the pits arent that bad and the fellas are right paint and primer hide most all of it. I think its just something that I notice over anyone else. I will have to get a pic this week after a season in the dirt it still looks good. has anyone ever tried a soda blaster or media dlaster instead of a sand blaster?
I'm a bit out of my league amongst you fellas on here, but anyway thought I would post up a couple of pics of the D4D I have at home. Long story short it got sand-blasted while being stripped for overhaul, then primed and painted......as you can see its a long way off finished It takes an incredible amount of time prepping and then getting the paint all in around them hard-to-get-at spots
looking good
Caterpillarry, take it to your closest ritchie bros auction yard, for the money you can't even come close to what they can do! Thats if you consider your shop time of any value, obviously this depends on the size of the machine. These guys have the absolute state of the art facilities and if you get in line with the next upcoming auction it will take less than a day for the whole thing to be complete, sandblast media, paint and primer will would run only hundreds of dollars but the labor could run into hundreds of hours depending on how disassembled you make the machine.......................theironoracle