Priming or Painting Misc Parts

[CamarosRus]

<span style="color: #000099">I am doing a NON CONCOURS &quot;restoration&quot; on a 73 R/S LT Camaro that Ive had laying
around many years. Fortunately I bought the car for little $$$ so do have room to
work......I cant seem to help myself and get carried away with the resto process.

I have concluded that glassbeading misc components in my cabinet is way too tedious
and time consuming. I took a large group of misc parts....rotors, brake drums, spindles,
water pump, plate under leaf springs, leaf spring mount brkt, drum backing plates
bummper brkts etc etc........and had them run through a GOFF <span style="font-weight: bold">shot blasting</span> machine
for 90 seconds (per small load). This did leave the metal CLEAN and with a little more
roughness on material than desired but still reasonable to me.

I recently bought a Gallon of SPI Black Epoxy prime and activator. How do the quality shops
like Rick Nelson, SCW, etc etc prime and paint all these smaller non exterior parts.
I'd like to dip and hang some of them but cost of activating that much epoxy wouldnt be
good.....

Also if the SPI epoxy has enough &quot;gloss&quot; level would you just leave as is or top coat with
a single stage glossier coating ???

Can I take a LARGE appliance cardboard box and makeshift a &quot;booth&quot; just to contain
the overspray IF I wind up using my own gun in my crowded shop???

Anybody ever read or done the process where paint is floated on top of water and parts are dipped into
the water/paint ???????

Sorry for the book.........but hope to get a few thoughts from those that will share!!!</span>

[CamarosRus]

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[bluel78]

If your not going the concours route look into powder coating. They offer different levels of gloss, and it's cheaper than buying primer and paint and doing the work yourself with the added bonas it's durrable. The down side if you have pits they will show up but overall an easy way to go. Dustin

[CamarosRus]

Dustin, Powder Coating prices in Kansas must be cheaper
than Western WA state as Ive found PCing here to be pretty spendy.

Ive already bought SPI Epoxy Primer for the subframe, control arms, crossmember
and misc larger parts......... I'm have those parts sprayed by a &quot;shop&quot; as
my place just isnt set up for spraying primer/paint.

Just thought hanging, spraying ALL these misc spindles, backing plates, brackets etc etc
will be too tedious and wasting epoxy primer.......

Curious if anybody does dipping of parts and how so ???

Thanks

[Billohio]

I used epoxy primer any place I thought durability was an issue. The rest I used rustoleum self etching primer. I top coated in a similar fashion. Either with a ppg or sikkens paint where needed and rest got rustoleum semi gloss.

[firstgenaddict]

Chuck if you are going to float the paint you need to use deionized water... which is purified,
I have done the dip painting and the paint must be thinned more than you would think in order to not get a heavy build.


In order to not activate too much paint, I mixed a quart and then put it in an old syrup bottle which has a smaller hole, then I coated the parts starting at the top, collected the excess in a roller tray then when empty I filtered the paint and refilled the bottle. What was left I poured into the ends of the frame or into the cowl sides and let it run out the rockers.

[CamarosRus]

I dont think I want to try dipping parts in water, as I just dont need the hassle of failure
amongst all the other current restoration issues Im dealing with....

I am wanting to epoxy the front spindles and rear brake drums amongst many other parts
but currently need to rely on my "body painter to help with this...

I have MANY small body, chassis, frame component parts needing primer and paint.
Just dont know what or when I should hold out for Epoxy (catalized 2k) primer and which I should do with Rustoleum self etch.......(where how to find/buy?)

Anyway, Thanks

[CamarosRus]

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Interested if members will share how best the LEGENDS Cars (Show Cars) have all the misc BLACK Brkts primered and top coated......

[CamarosRus]

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Shades of BLACK !!!!!

[hogdaddy]

The SPI black epoxy paint looks really good on a core support I just painted. It looks just like a factory NOS black to me gloss-wise.
Also, instructions say that longer induction (4 hrs) and it needs no topcoat.