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I started redoing this Formula 20 SC over two years ago. It's just hard to find time to work on it. Like today, it was a perfect day for boating, but I decided to start on the paint.
Understand, before today, I'd never held a paint gun in my hand.
Taped and papered, ready to shoot the primer.
I had to install a dryer inline for my compressor. That required three trips to Home Depot.
The compressor also required some modifications. Seems the genuises that designed it put the handle right where the dryer needed to be. A four inch angle cut grinder with a diamond wheel cured that. I don't need no stinkin' handle.
That was a lot of grunt work for twenty minutes of fun! It actually came out better than I thought it would. No runs, no drips, and no errors. I'll sand it in the morning and shoot the paint.
Debbie checking my handiwork.
JimG205
05-09-2004, 07:25 PM
Joe-Looks great-the trick to a great paint job is the prep.What paint did you shoot it with?Looks like there's some clear mixed in?? How's the minx? Regards,Jim
Cuda that is quite an achievement I know you have to be feeling pretty damn good! It rates a big Bravo!
Phil
Brad Lyon
05-09-2004, 09:03 PM
Very nice! Great color as well, love that yellow.
Brad
Thanks guys. The paint is Interlux Brightsides that you buy at Boater's World and the like. I've had some people tell me I may have trouble with it "lifting" or the stripes "biting" using this paint because it doesn't have a catalyst mixed in it. Well, I don't even know what that means, so I'll just trudge blindly on and do the best I can.
What I'm trying to do is make it look like my 302. I want matching Formulas. ;)
I hope I'm better with a paint gun than I am with the paint program. :)
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