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This thread has been awesome, I've been painting some of my parts and it's been looking good so far.
Some pics:
Now I'm getting my triple trees prepared to paint but have some questions before I paint them. The previous owner painted the triple trees in flat black. The top tree & bottom tree were also painted with completely different types of paints. The top tree sanded down pretty well, the bottom tree I've been sanding for a while and there is still a fair amount of paint left. Can I paint directly over whatever left over paint is still on the tree's if I have sanded it fairly well (basically in the state that the pictures show below)? Or do I need to get down to the metal completely? I want to make sure I do this correctly. Any tips or tricks would be appreciated.
Here are some pics of the tree's showing how much I've sanded them down so far:
Bottom tree:
I also have a question about dust. About an hour or two into drying, some of my parts got dust on the fresh paint from my sanding near by (I should have been smarter and not sanded so close).... I really dont feel like waiting 7 days, sanding, and then painting again. Can I just buff these out after a week of drying? Any tips again would be really appreciated.
Hala Madrid: I've been spraying everything in the appliance epoxy. I love this stuff. As for the 7 day waiting period, I've never waited more than 24 hours to start wet sanding my parts. My suggestion would be to go ahead and see if you can rinse off the dust. Worst case scenario, if you can't get the dust off, you can sand it down and repaint it. You don't have to wait 7 days to start tearing the paint off.
Bliss: get an old part you don't care about anymore or (what I used to practice on) a 5 gallon bucket and try out the matte clear on it. See what it looks like. If it works, take a few pics and show the forum and tell us how you did it.
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