What Not To Do On Painting

[55 Fargo]

Hey all, as you Guys know I painted my heap last year, at home, with Synthetic Enamel, gloss hardner, cheap hvlp spraygun.

Results were good, paint flaws the fault of the painter, and his inexperience.

Today, I painted the door edges, now this should have been done before the paint job last year, I reasoned that I would repaint the doors, and then do the edges properly.

Well I am in no mood for removing doors, and panels to re-do the paint, I am limiting my future painting to frames, floors,inner fenders,trailers primer etc, not finish coats, just not good enough for topcoats.

What I did was mix some of the same paint I used on the car, reduced with medium speed reducer, add a little gloss hardener, and then proceeded to apply it on the door edges with a small sponge brush.

It went on reasonably well, I put on 2 coats with a 4 hour dry time in-between.

It looks better than what was there before, but moral of the story, this should have been done correctly before the paint job.

Now this is what I call bassackwards.........LOL

[RobertKB]

But at least it is done! Looks good.

[PatS....]

Looks good to me, Fred. Just touch up the weatherstripping with black and it's good to go.

Hey, you get to drive yours...mine's keeping a set of jackstands dust-free

[55 Fargo]

I am pulling that weatherstrip very son, and will install some new ones, the paint under there is in good shape, I have had the strip off before......Fred

[dezeldoc]

I don't know Fred, i always do my jambs last! that way their are no tape marks in the jambs, and just color sand off the edge and buff when i do the car and you can never tell it wasn't done in all at once. of course i spray mine.