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Ryoken's Guide to Rust Treatment and Bodywork 101

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Chief yours is a 74 right, anyway, here is a pic from the 74 sales brochure,

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y5mgisi said:
Check out this one in the 75 brochure!

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That's a great likeness of what mine will look like...identical....I think the scuba gear is a little over the top though...although, there does seem to be a connection between that colored Blazer and the ocean...sharks...scuba....

I also noticed that they moved the spare tire from behind the seat to the passenger bedside in 1975....maybe that's a tell

As for the trim piece maybe I can measure the old quarter if it wasn't replaced when they added new sheetmetal.
 
My original QP's do indeed have the holes still in them so I can measure....and they are offset...I guess for 38 years the mind's eye has been "straightening" out that trim piece...
guess we will need R. Lee Ermey to help out with PTTD (Post Traumatic Trim Disorder) :haha:
 
Jesus H. Christ....wish I had known this before...I added some reducer to my primer....it lays down like glass....I've figured this out after 4 gallons. I have been spraying everything in different degrees of dry....it's just too hot down here to not use any reducer.
I only have enough primer left to do the inner wheel wells though...:doah:
 
I also put together some 8x10 panels for the booth and figured out that 8' is high enough as opposed to the 10' I thought at first...so my panels lay down on the 10' side
I need 2 on each side and 2 8x8 panels on each end. That ends up being 20'x16'.....that gives me about 4 feet clearance all the way around.

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I generally like to run my intake filters up pretty high at one end and the fans down low at the other end..
 
I'm not surprised in that heat.. it is borderline on a viscosity test, it is a fill primer after all.... they want you to keep it thick for that reason.. but i've thinned other fill primers in the past...
 
ryoken said:
I'm not surprised in that heat.. it is borderline on a viscosity test, it is a fill primer after all.... they want you to keep it thick for that reason.. but i've thinned other fill primers in the past...
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It is definately not as thick as without reducer, but I will reduce it all day long if I get a flat surface like that....that's where my grit and orange peel have been coming from...it dries as it comes out of the nozzle in this heat, then it hits the 200+ degree metal and if I spray it close enough to ever get it properly wet...it then causes the buildup and dries instantly without any time to flow...
 
yeah, I get away with it cuz it's a bit cooler and I'm spraying my 2k thru my old Binks #7, or thru the pressure pot...
 
well that's all today because the rain just moved in again...all that rain that fell in the truck will mix with the primer dust and create a bunch of extra sanding tomorrow...

I am getting very close now...if I could have had the rest of today and all day tomorrow...I might be there...

 
On the bright side, the rain is forcing you to rest up a bit. But i do feel your pain. If i had all day today and tomorrow I could drop the burb off at maaco Monday. Instead I have to work today and I'm going out of town tomorrow...
 
chief- what spray gun are you going to be using for the paint? Is this the same that you use for primer?
 
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