Paint Your Wagon - with a roller!

[Vdubz2012]

You ll need it at least room temp for any paint to cure! If it to cold it won't cure and you ll have runs in the paint for sure!
Why do you only need to put 1 coat on?

[meggles]

You're all wusses. I can often be seen prepping a van in a blizzard in just my pants.

[meggles]

Well, I got my spot blaster. Thanks for the hint HarryMann They had loads left. I didn't realise you get loads of nozzles with it. Looks a half decent thing. Not sure what the bag does though Now, where do I buy more of the grit stuff?

[HarryMann]

Great! Now.... am I going to divulge?
...who on here offered to send me some better blasting media (glass allegedly is less irritant to lungs etc).

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[meggles]

Great! Now.... am I going to divulge?
...who on here offered to send me some better blasting media (glass allegedly is less irritant to lungs etc).

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I just supposed that you had to wear very good eye and mouth protection. Full face mask maybe? Anyway, I have lots of safety wear in the garage so I'll just probs overdo the protection I found some suppliers of grit on the net so I'll probs have a good long look at the advice first.

[CovKid]

The bag, to some extent, catches grit which you can then put back through. You soon go through grit. Deffo need face protection though as the grit bounces back at you aggressively. Wear a hood and goggles as a minimum. It'll only cover something like a 5mm circle but thats ideal for seams. If you have more rust than that (big areas), take it to a pro. However it does a good job of getting deep into seams once any mastic has been raked out.

[meggles]

The bag, to some extent, catches grit which you can then put back through. You soon go through grit. Deffo need face protection though as the grit bounces back at you aggressively. Wear a hood and goggles as a minimum. It'll only cover something like a 5mm circle but thats ideal for seams. If you have more rust than that (big areas), take it to a pro. However it does a good job of getting deep into seams once any mastic has been raked out.

Thanks for that. No big areas of rust to do Deffo need to do the seams. I've had a couple of goes at them so the rust is very minimal as I've always used a rust treatment. Just need to get some decent weather 'cos I'm a wuss and won't do work in the cold whilst wearing my shorts

[onc onc]

Am i doing something wrong. i took paint back to rust, Vactan,d it then red oxide paint about three weeks back and now the blooooody rust is coming back through, where am i going wrong, any ideas?


Cheers
Onkers

[Vdubz2012]

Am i doing something wrong. i took paint back to rust, Vactan,d it then red oxide paint about three weeks back and now the blooooody rust is coming back through, where am i going wrong, any ideas?


Cheers
Onkers

Even the tiniest of rust bubbles has to be cleaned right back to bare metal and at least a few inches around it so it nice and shinyl! You ll either be left with a whole where the rust was or a black spot where it was? Treat that then paint!
Rust treatment won't work unless you dig all the rot out!
Hope this helps

[meggles]

Am i doing something wrong. i took paint back to rust, Vactan,d it then red oxide paint about three weeks back and now the blooooody rust is coming back through, where am i going wrong, any ideas?


Cheers
Onkers

Sometimes the panel just isn't worth treating and needs replacing. However, if it's not that bad then the previous is good advice.

[onc onc]

Thanks for your help guys, i will give it another go when the weather perks up.

[Trundler]

Hi rollers...

I've only woken up to the brilliance of this idea quite late (my mate Monkeynut did his matt black way back in page 19 of this thread so I'm 137 pages late!). I didn't take much interest in his paint job as he was just after a matt finish that would look better than the previous scabby red - and it did that OK.

I always had in mind that I would get the Syncro sprayed at some point but I could never afford it. Meanwhile the original paint has become even more matt than Monkeynut's black and I decided to look more closely at this rollering malarkey. ..fantastic!

After reading ALL 156 pages of this thread and buying and watching the DVD I'm fully fired up to have a go at this. I'm currently having some panels replaced by my local bodyshop, who are doing a great job, and have started buying supplies including 1 litre of RAL3004 (purple red) for doing the roof, which will be my test panel (well, nobody sees it up there anyway!). The RAL3004 seems to be fairly close to the original paint and looks gorgeous in the tin so I have high hopes. When I say 'original' the maroon colour on the van was applied by Devon during a mini-bus conversion on the brand new van in 1987 and is not a VW colour as far as I can tell. It's not far off the purple red though so I don't intend to do the internal areas. (I did this years ago when I had my previous van sprayed Alpine White over the previous Pastel White - an acceptable mismatch).

Anyway, all I need now is this ridiculous cold weather to disappear and I can start...

Thanks CovKid and all on this thread for mega-inspiration!

[81AirCooled]

You ll need it at least room temp for any paint to cure! If it to cold it won't cure and you ll have runs in the paint for sure!
Why do you only need to put 1 coat on?

Well I need to put on more, but I've prepped nearly half the van and would like finish prepping and get a coat on before our first possible trip. Mind you with the other issues we might got be going anywhere

[81AirCooled]

Hi rollers...

I've only woken up to the brilliance of this idea quite late (my mate Monkeynut did his matt black way back in page 19 of this thread so I'm 137 pages late!). I didn't take much interest in his paint job as he was just after a matt finish that would look better than the previous scabby red - and it did that OK.

I always had in mind that I would get the Syncro sprayed at some point but I could never afford it. Meanwhile the original paint has become even more matt than Monkeynut's black and I decided to look more closely at this rollering malarkey. ..fantastic!

After reading ALL 156 pages of this thread and buying and watching the DVD I'm fully fired up to have a go at this. I'm currently having some panels replaced by my local bodyshop, who are doing a great job, and have started buying supplies including 1 litre of RAL3004 (purple red) for doing the roof, which will be my test panel (well, nobody sees it up there anyway!). The RAL3004 seems to be fairly close to the original paint and looks gorgeous in the tin so I have high hopes. When I say 'original' the maroon colour on the van was applied by Devon during a mini-bus conversion on the brand new van in 1987 and is not a VW colour as far as I can tell. It's not far off the purple red though so I don't intend to do the internal areas. (I did this years ago when I had my previous van sprayed Alpine White over the previous Pastel White - an acceptable mismatch).

Anyway, all I need now is this ridiculous cold weather to disappear and I can start...

Thanks CovKid and all on this thread for mega-inspiration!

Not being funny but that colour looks great in matt as it is.

[Trundler]

Yeh, it looks good on a photo and I did think of trying to replicate it but the van has various rusty bits that are being replaced so will need repainting. The problem with matt or satin finishes is that they are a nightmare to keep clean. I'm sure my van magnetically attracts dirt to itself!