Been doing a bit more on the Ventora this morning.
Basically the idea is to prime out the engine bay and boot and then hit the rest of the car in one go. I probably need to do the reverses of the opening panels as well, but I have to fit my sister in law's washine machine this afternoon so all may not go according to plan.
I hope Imageshack has resized the pictures like I asked it too this time, so here goes....
The problem is always what to remove and what to mask. Due to the wiring loom being caged behind some welded on retainers I decided to mask it. What a bleedin ballache that is. Its like trying to get a condom on a snake. But job done in the boot and then onto the engine bay.
Here we have the fun of all the brake lines and such too. Nice. This is why I buy 1/2" tape. Guy in the paint shop allways mutters about nobody buying 1/2" and has to go hunt for it but for rivet mounted hard lines its the way to go. More fiddly faff, but what else are you going to do? Painting engine bays is a pain and doing it properly involves stripping absolutely everything out. Even then you can't guarantee some nasty something is hiding in a seam or corner to react with the paint anyway (I've got that, naturally) so I always regard mint engine bays with a degree of awe and resentment!
Couple of coats of primer down and all is looking well.
This isn't the primer I'm using for the visible panels, so theres another oportunity for reaction.... But I'm tight for cash so I'm using up some old primer I had in stock from last years fun.
Also finished painting the radiator shroud and cleaned and tidied up the brake servo with a coat of Hammerite Smooth .
Right, now for some lunch, washing machine jollies and then get back onto this later hopefully to finish off.
A point to note is that my jamb gun is borlacksed so I ended up using an Earlex Appolo airless sprayer to apply the primer. Worked well enough. Certainly seemed to be a lot less airborne paint and fumes with that. Paint seemed to go on quite wet and dropletty though so dunno how well it would do for a colour coat. Maybe more setting up would help. I last used it to creosote a fense...
Basically the idea is to prime out the engine bay and boot and then hit the rest of the car in one go. I probably need to do the reverses of the opening panels as well, but I have to fit my sister in law's washine machine this afternoon so all may not go according to plan.
I hope Imageshack has resized the pictures like I asked it too this time, so here goes....
The problem is always what to remove and what to mask. Due to the wiring loom being caged behind some welded on retainers I decided to mask it. What a bleedin ballache that is. Its like trying to get a condom on a snake. But job done in the boot and then onto the engine bay.
Here we have the fun of all the brake lines and such too. Nice. This is why I buy 1/2" tape. Guy in the paint shop allways mutters about nobody buying 1/2" and has to go hunt for it but for rivet mounted hard lines its the way to go. More fiddly faff, but what else are you going to do? Painting engine bays is a pain and doing it properly involves stripping absolutely everything out. Even then you can't guarantee some nasty something is hiding in a seam or corner to react with the paint anyway (I've got that, naturally) so I always regard mint engine bays with a degree of awe and resentment!
Couple of coats of primer down and all is looking well.
This isn't the primer I'm using for the visible panels, so theres another oportunity for reaction.... But I'm tight for cash so I'm using up some old primer I had in stock from last years fun.
Also finished painting the radiator shroud and cleaned and tidied up the brake servo with a coat of Hammerite Smooth .
Right, now for some lunch, washing machine jollies and then get back onto this later hopefully to finish off.
A point to note is that my jamb gun is borlacksed so I ended up using an Earlex Appolo airless sprayer to apply the primer. Worked well enough. Certainly seemed to be a lot less airborne paint and fumes with that. Paint seemed to go on quite wet and dropletty though so dunno how well it would do for a colour coat. Maybe more setting up would help. I last used it to creosote a fense...
