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The DEMONX 1970 vert project Pt2

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demonx:
I'm pretty sure they do. All the prep and repair work is done at the hotrod shop and they send the pieces off to Geelong Electroplating for the chrome which is meant to be one of the best in VIC. It saves me driving down there myself and the price is still good.

BOSCHVETTE:
A tip when doing your priming, tint each coat(gettin slighty lighter each coat) with the top coats colour( in your case red) it does 2 things for you when you get stone chips you dont notice them as much and you can also tell when you are rubbing it back how many coats you have rubbed through.This should stop you from rubbing through your primer.

demonx:
More minor progress.

Got the door jams sanded and taped up waiting for a cooler (under 25*) day so I can shoot some epoxy, then use a bit of filler to smooth out the lines a fraction more in the inner door jam, then spray primer, base & clear.

Will be glad to see something else in color other than the damn door inners! After these jams are painted I'll have to remount the doors on the freshly rebuilt hinges (once the damn bushes and springs arrive) and then I can start a bit more body work.

Still looking for a decent rear filler panel. At this stage side pipe or stock is an option.

demonx:
Two updates for today:

1) Unfortunately I'm going through a fair financial struggle at the moment so I've had to sell the American Racing Torq Thrust II wheels I had custom made for my vette in the USA. I took a deposit on them last week and they are getting collected at some stage today. The new owner is from somewhere in Sydney I believe - no idea if they are a NSW member. Either way - these wheels and tires are as new since they've only been driven around the block twice - anyone following this thread will know this cars not been doing much driving!!!

I really didn't want to sell them and I'm kinda sad about this but such is life.





2) Today is the perfect temp to spray so I went out to the shed - I was getting ready to spend the day spraying the door jams and some other things.

I mixed this first lot of epoxy I noticed there was a swirl I could not manage to stir in, I watched it start to move around on the surface and it looked like chemicals seperating (like oil and water for eg) - this is what it looked like after a minute or so.



I'm wondering all this crap I went through with the paint blister failure (last time I painted it p#issed me off so much I've had a break till now) that it was this seperation/contamination of sorts and I never noticed it last time when mixing.

This narrows it down to either the epoxy, hardner or thinner. I seriously doubt its the thinner. I inspected the hardner lid and it had a build up of crap dried around the seal. Even though I believe it was sealed correctly it's possible that it may not have been. Also this tin of epoxy was the same tin that failed on me last time. So I'm down to these two things.

So much for finally getting motivated to spend the day in the shed spraying. Now I have to get my hands on some more hardener and epoxy (being sunday rules it out for today) and do some trial and error test samples to assess where the actual contamination is.

Scott:
I did see your wheels on ebay. Shame you had to pass them on.  At least you caught the paint before you sprated it this time.  Would have been devastating to have another batch go crinkly.

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