billybunters - from a bmw z4 to a mx5 se

[billybunter]

and I am still working on the rub down like 3 hours on the bonnet alone -top only

[RS2000]

Why are you cutting back so far when the surface is so good?
Surely a 300-400 grit dry sand of whole car to remove gloss, followed by grey primer/surfacer, then 600-800 wet sand before colour coat would do the job?
Cheers

[billybunter]

always good to have a question. I could but its a bit more involved than that I've had this back issue now for a good four months and last week the DR told me - no use laying on the lounge-get up and do something again

so a wet rub back on the car I think is doing the job for me and I actually feel better on a daily basis. the dry rub would be quicker but in my case quicker is not going to help me strengthen my back and that's really my main reason here

I am actually going in Thursday to have some dye placed in the back and a ct scan to see what is actually going on

now as for painting straight over the red after cutting the clear. well that was done so on the original factory paint. it was then painted white and after that red so atm its probably wearing a good 6 litres of paint or more.

so I could hit double figures if I don't remove some of it

[speed]

Well if this work is good for your back I'd be happy to contract you to paint my rx7

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[Mr Morlock]

I would not have done it all but RS2000 comments is the approach I would have taken.

[billybunter]

me too if I had plans to re-paint my fiat but this car of mine has a lot of paint on it but I think I really have no choice but to prepare it right and I think the rub back to the white is the right move

say if I did paint straight over the red and later I chipped it i'd have red blobs coming out on my white paint job. then the next question who was the back yarder who painted that?

so by rights I really should go back to the silver but seeing it looks like I will go white they should save it

now as for dry rubbing I really don't like it. ive probably rubbed back 10 or more. it works and works well but the frigg'in dust - in your hair/ears/eyes clothes into the house and so on. sh*t I got into some arguments with that and the body filler etc etc

so with the wet rubs its just water and sandpaper and really not much else to worry about

back in the early '90 the first car I ever had a go at restoring was a 67 hr holden ute. a panel beater lived across the road and said I will hire you my best apprentice to work on it. after knocking out all the dents and filling it - the key filler used was the classic gold in 4kg tubs - 20 kgs of the stuff went on that hr

you can imagine how much dust was about after the speed file and sander and block sander etc etc did their job and it went on like that for the next 5 years followed on by a 66 mustang and a datusun fairlady 2000 -the datsuns worth a bit now too

[billybunter]

this doesn't look too good now on the car paint job the motorbike I had plans on buying will not be arriving till some time next year. now a dealer in the ACT has a new I like the look of in stock. so I bought it today instead

now I have to go and pick it up once they do the service and register it. plus I have a car partly rubbed back in a pretty sorry state too

if I would have know this could happen a few days earlier - oh the pain!

[Mr Morlock]

I agree about a wet rub for larger areas- much cleaner. I owned 2 Datsuns- a Fairlady 1500 the first of the serious efforts by Japan in this field and the only new car I ever bought- a Low windscreen Datsun 2000 sports- only called Fairlady in Japan- we were tough here no Fairlady for us blokes- they only sold about 530 before going to the plastic dash version for the US market .Today no money does not stop young people buying cars they never own- Banks have to make some money. PS traded the Datsun on a Honda 450... crazy but it suited the image then.

[billybunter]

yeah I should have said 2000 sports had it the same time I had the Mitsubishi cordia turbo which I thought was a pretty good car

[billybunter]

forgot to mention too- got a $600 discount on that bike. I guess mainly because it was the 10th new bike i'd bought from royal enfield in that brand in the past 5 years.......and i'm not even an indian possibly a bike record in itself!

[billybunter]

I think I will keep to my original thread on the paint re-spray. I still have a bit of good content left in it

day 1, or yesterday photos and I will put up todays work later on today.

[billybunter]

[billybunter]

[Okibi]

Looks like so much work

[speed]

I personally am really going to miss that red

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