Painting plastic trim bits
Forg
Just wondering about painting bits of plastic trim; things like
headlight surrounds, highlights on grilles (and the grille itself), etc.
I need to turn a whole bunch of stuff that's currently chrome (plastic
chrome, that is) to matte-black, but it has to last ... if it was metal,
I'd just undercoat & use a few coats of paint from a can (small areas,
so the uniformity problem from cans ain't there).
However, is there any way you can do plastics like that without using a
spray gun? Or do I have to get some paint made-up with the flex agent in
it, and christen the spray gun (all that cleaning, yuk!)
--
Forg! -DUH#6=- (Y1)
"Flamin' heck; another Volvo Driver!"
"...
Another Turnip Boy;
A Forg stuck in the road
..."
[Greenday]
OnEtoNnEr
pre heated oven after sanding the gloss off, I than spray immediately once
removing from the oven....Some blokes go to the extra bother of heating the
paint as well but sticking spray packs in the oven scares me a bit :)
Obviously a warm place to spray is required, I usually do it under a couple
of standard spot lights mounted on a piece of timber and aimed at the job.
A piece of advice....Don't spray a bike frame And plastic bits in the
laundry on the minister of war's new washing machine without covering it
first....The best bit was she divorced me six months later, If I had of
known it was that easy I would have done it years before.
Grizzly
Forg <fo...@zip.com.au> wrote in message news:383A7168...@zip.com.au...
Adam
I can help.
Your first task is to identify what types of plastic these components are
made from. As you say, the parts are currently plated it is most likely that
the material is Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene. Yup, common old ABS. More
often than not, it will be a high heat grade (to cope with the temperatures
involved in the plating process and those that cars have to endure).
What you have to do is dechrome the parts, that is, reverse the plating
process. Any place that peforms plastic plating can do this. By doing this
you avoid any sanding, which you defintely don't want to do.
Ok, now to coat the plain plastic parts. Get on the phone to ICI and sort
out an etch primer to key to the plastic. After a good coat of this is dry
and a light 1000, the parts are ready for the matt black.
Beautiful! And it will last a long time.
Cheers,
Adam
p.s. I am afraid you are going to have to dirty the new gun!
Forg wrote in message <383A7168...@zip.com.au>...
Kieron Murphy
>and christen the spray gun (all that cleaning, yuk!)
Shit, you've got a spray gun and don't use it Forg!!!! better go and
buy a 4wd then ;-)
Kieron
Forg
Hmm, good point ... the compressor is also rather unsuited to road
driving, innit? :-)
Neil Gerace
Forg <fo...@zip.com.au> wrote in message news:383BAA14...@zip.com.au...
>
> Hmm, good point ... the compressor is also rather unsuited to road
> driving, innit? :-)
>
That's the trouble with compressors, especially exhaust-driven intake air
compressors.
'Engine has a turbo' implies 'Engine designers are too lazy to do anything
else to get more power'
cheers
neil
Kieron Murphy
>Kieron Murphy wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 21:50:16 +1100, Forg <fo...@zip.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> >and christen the spray gun (all that cleaning, yuk!)
>>
>> Shit, you've got a spray gun and don't use it Forg!!!! better go and
>> buy a 4wd then ;-)
>...
>
>Hmm, good point ... the compressor is also rather unsuited to road
>driving, innit? :-)
An unused compressor too!!1, i've just had a brain wave (no comments
thanks!!!) why not strap the thing into the boot of the 242, fabricate
an adaptor plate to the carb of your Volvo and run the hose between
the two, you could also get a tap plumed into the line on the dash to
regualte the air flow, it would be just like in Mad Max, I can see it
now -
Mad Matt - The Road Warrior
When the bands of maurading 4wdrivers take over the highways
thank god he's out there!!
Kieron
Matt Cremer
>> Hmm, good point ... the compressor is also rather unsuited to road
>> driving, innit? :-)
>>
>compressors.
Yeah, annoying as a road vehicle at the rest of times!!! You need to travel
only down steep hills, balancing yourself on top of it like it's a big
ball-bearing ...
-Forg (Elsewhere)
Matt Cremer
...
>An unused compressor too!!1, i've just had a brain wave (no comments
>thanks!!!) why not strap the thing into the boot of the 242, fabricate
>an adaptor plate to the carb of your Volvo and run the hose between
>the two, you could also get a tap plumed into the line on the dash to
>regualte the air flow
I'd need a damned long extension cord (aren't 3-phase cables expensive or
something?) ... and I could be wrong, but isn't 19cfm just a teensy bit low?
:-) :-)
...
>it would be just like in Mad Max, I can see it
>now -
> Mad Matt - The Road Warrior
> When the bands of maurading 4wdrivers take over the highways
> thank god he's out there!!
...
How often can I get my Bisley to burn? :-)
-Forg (Elsewhere)
Kieron Murphy
<Matthew...@Aspect.com.au> wrote:
...
>>An unused compressor too!!1, i've just had a brain wave (no comments
>>thanks!!!) why not strap the thing into the boot of the 242, fabricate
>>an adaptor plate to the carb of your Volvo and run the hose between
>>the two, you could also get a tap plumed into the line on the dash to
>>regualte the air flow
>...
>
>I'd need a damned long extension cord (aren't 3-phase cables expensive or
>something?) ... and I could be wrong, but isn't 19cfm just a teensy bit low?
>:-) :-)
Plug it in befor you leave for the train station, should have enough
pressure to get you there with judicious of the tap ;-)
>...
>>it would be just like in Mad Max, I can see it
>>now -
>> Mad Matt - The Road Warrior
>> When the bands of maurading 4wdrivers take over the highways
>> thank god he's out there!!
>...
>
>How often can I get my Bisley to burn? :-)
You lost me, do you mean something to do with Steve Bisley?
Kieron
Forg
Kieron Murphy wrote:
>
> On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 08:09:58 +1100, "Matt Cremer"
> <Matthew...@Aspect.com.au> wrote:
> >...
> >>now -
> >> Mad Matt - The Road Warrior
> >> When the bands of maurading 4wdrivers take over the highways
> >> thank god he's out there!!
> >...
> >
> >How often can I get my Bisley to burn? :-)
>
> You lost me, do you mean something to do with Steve Bisley?
Isn't that what would make me angry enough to rampage around and attempt
revenge upon the evil wrongdoers?
[Long time since I've watched it though]
Kieron Murphy
>
>Kieron Murphy wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 26 Nov 1999 08:09:58 +1100, "Matt Cremer"
>> <Matthew...@Aspect.com.au> wrote:
>> >...
>> >>it would be just like in Mad Max, I can see it
>> >>now -
>> >> Mad Matt - The Road Warrior
>> >> When the bands of maurading 4wdrivers take over the highways
>> >> thank god he's out there!!
>> >...
>> >
>> >How often can I get my Bisley to burn? :-)
>>
>> You lost me, do you mean something to do with Steve Bisley?
>...
>
>Isn't that what would make me angry enough to rampage around and attempt
>revenge upon the evil wrongdoers?
>[Long time since I've watched it though]
Oh yeah, gotcha now, yep, he would have to have been run over by an
amphibious 4wd while rowing a boat on Water Rats!!
Kieron
Forg
...
> Oh yeah, gotcha now, yep, he would have to have been run over by an
> amphibious 4wd while rowing a boat on Water Rats!!
Either that, or he drowns because Colin Friels pulls that lever in the
middle of the home-made boat, it splits in half, and it sinks in an
unforeseen way ...