BUILD THREAD Project Olds Cool (Recognition!!)
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PPG is one of them "get what ya pay for" items. Yeah its pricey, but the results are sooo worth it! I won't muddy up D's thread, but my car was sprayed with PPG's Omni line, but we used the PPG DC4000 high velocity clear and that stuff is legit!
I’m an old school Concept 2021 clear man myself. I loved that sh*t! Here’s a motorcycle tank I painted for one of my dad's bikes with it. The clarity and gloss was unsurpassed IMO.
Unfortunately it’s unobtainium around here these days.
😠
Dayzedandkonfuzed, can you guys still get the Concept 2021 clear there in BC? I kinda doubt it because I think BC has more stringent VOC regulations than Alberta, but I thought I’d ask seeing as you’re a rep.
Yea no dice I'm afraid. Most painters would have shed a tear the day the voc regulations came into effect. I swear 75% of my paint room was empty by noon, anything on the shelf sealed went south of the border I think.
My "Big Book of PPG, Vol 1" is full of P-Sheets, even discontinued lines cause you never know when you'll luck into some old stock being horded. BTW, Vol 2 is the chip books covering '78-'88.
I used to sell that stuff like it was crack in the inner city back when I was at the old-old job. I loved it too but my stock has been out for years.
Hey D,
Good to see you back in action after being down for a spell. You don't waste any time, my friend. Progress must continue.
Good to see you back in action after being down for a spell. You don't waste any time, my friend. Progress must continue.
I tried to read those sheets, went cross eyed, huffed some fumes, and laid down a $h1tty @$$ paint job. I need to be next to someone and watch how to actually paint.
Fairly productive weekend in The Skunkworks, considering I’m still battling this miserable head cold.
Saturday I got the epoxy scuffed with red ScotchBrite and feathered out the edges, then laid in some fresh new seam sealer:
Saturday evening I pulled in one of the spare doors I have, there’s three in total I’ll be referring to. We’ll call them by their colors so I don’t get y’all confused. White was original to the car, green is one I picked up 2 years ago, and this, the brown one is one that I’ve hung onto for almost 10 years now.
Without question, the original white door is pretty much beyond saving. It’s simply too rough in too many spots. Also without question, the brown door was the best of the 3, despite being stored outdoors in the elements all this time.
A look at the brown door on the stand:
For obvious reasons, the bottom of the door is the main area of concern, if this is too far gone, then the rest might as well be a wash as well.
Initially it looked pretty good...
...with only one real area of concern:
It was bubbled up pretty high here indicating there was something more going on underneath.
Here’s a pic of the end with mud still stuck to it, proof that it has been outside for a while!
Lol
These next two pictures are of the upper reinforcement/crash bar in the original white door, you can see that even these areas are pretty heavily rusted. It’d be damn tough if not impossible to fix these spots.
Pictures of the exact same 2 areas on the brown door. Almost exact opposite of what you’d expect given the history of these 2 doors:
Now you see why the choice to use the brown door was obvious.
Next came some cleanup on the bottom to see exactly what I was dealing with...
...then came the nasty bit. Underneath the area that was bubbled up, the inner structure was completely wasted, nothing left. No pics of that, but once it was cut out, this is what it looked like:
Enter door #3, the green door. The bottom of it had some heavily corroded areas that ruled it out for suitability, but the area that was wasted on the brown door wasn’t too bad on the green one. So being Sunday and Mike was over helping, I had him cut the donor section out of the green one while I continued to clean up around the hole and treated the freshly exposed areas with rust converter.
A little bit closer look at the mess we had going on at the time:
This is one of the 2 patches we cut from the green door that I’ll be using. Not perfect obviously, but better than nonexistent like what we found:
And finally, the Frankenstein pictures. The two patches we cut from the green door, trimmed, fitted and tack welded in place:
She’s still plenty ugly right now, no doubt, but at least it’s a start and I have something solid to work with. All this is just to replace the portion of rotted inner structure, once this is welded out and finished, I’ll have to treat it with rust converter and epoxy, then rebuild the section of outer skin that overlaps it. And I already have some ideas of how I’m gonna go about that.
So that’s it for now gents, the rest of this week is looking like some pretty heavy duty welding and metal work to get this finished out.
As always, thanks for looking in on things, and a big shout out to my buddy Mike for all his help and contributions today.
D.
Saturday I got the epoxy scuffed with red ScotchBrite and feathered out the edges, then laid in some fresh new seam sealer:
Saturday evening I pulled in one of the spare doors I have, there’s three in total I’ll be referring to. We’ll call them by their colors so I don’t get y’all confused. White was original to the car, green is one I picked up 2 years ago, and this, the brown one is one that I’ve hung onto for almost 10 years now.
Without question, the original white door is pretty much beyond saving. It’s simply too rough in too many spots. Also without question, the brown door was the best of the 3, despite being stored outdoors in the elements all this time.
A look at the brown door on the stand:
For obvious reasons, the bottom of the door is the main area of concern, if this is too far gone, then the rest might as well be a wash as well.
Initially it looked pretty good...
...with only one real area of concern:
It was bubbled up pretty high here indicating there was something more going on underneath.
Here’s a pic of the end with mud still stuck to it, proof that it has been outside for a while!
Lol
These next two pictures are of the upper reinforcement/crash bar in the original white door, you can see that even these areas are pretty heavily rusted. It’d be damn tough if not impossible to fix these spots.
Pictures of the exact same 2 areas on the brown door. Almost exact opposite of what you’d expect given the history of these 2 doors:
Now you see why the choice to use the brown door was obvious.
Next came some cleanup on the bottom to see exactly what I was dealing with...
...then came the nasty bit. Underneath the area that was bubbled up, the inner structure was completely wasted, nothing left. No pics of that, but once it was cut out, this is what it looked like:
Enter door #3, the green door. The bottom of it had some heavily corroded areas that ruled it out for suitability, but the area that was wasted on the brown door wasn’t too bad on the green one. So being Sunday and Mike was over helping, I had him cut the donor section out of the green one while I continued to clean up around the hole and treated the freshly exposed areas with rust converter.
A little bit closer look at the mess we had going on at the time:
This is one of the 2 patches we cut from the green door that I’ll be using. Not perfect obviously, but better than nonexistent like what we found:
And finally, the Frankenstein pictures. The two patches we cut from the green door, trimmed, fitted and tack welded in place:
She’s still plenty ugly right now, no doubt, but at least it’s a start and I have something solid to work with. All this is just to replace the portion of rotted inner structure, once this is welded out and finished, I’ll have to treat it with rust converter and epoxy, then rebuild the section of outer skin that overlaps it. And I already have some ideas of how I’m gonna go about that.
So that’s it for now gents, the rest of this week is looking like some pretty heavy duty welding and metal work to get this finished out.
As always, thanks for looking in on things, and a big shout out to my buddy Mike for all his help and contributions today.
D.
Hey Donovan, "Nothing like the smell of gun wash in the morning" to clear up that stuffy head feeling. Those friggin' doors, we went through 6 before we finally settled on 2, and they still needed work, so most certainly feel your pain. Repairs look great; us mere mortals will humbly follow along.
