Okay...No more paint stripping.
It no longer works on such small amounts of paint for some reason... once I pay for rego this month I'm going to pay to get them sandblasted (5 of them). Can anyone give me the number of a well priced sandblaster/can anyone get it done for me for cheap?
Despite wasted efforts to get rid of paint, we did more on my first wheel :). Second coat of primer went on and this time I painted it so I set the gun up just right :D it came up an absolute treat! It's really nice and even now, so I think this wheel doesn't necessarily have to be a test wheel.
For this style of wheel - ie multispoked/hard-to-get-to faces - you basically want to set up your spray so that the spray width is about as wide as the spoke depth, and the amount of paint that comes out leaves a *just* solid line on a test piece (like cardboard or something else flat that you can paint onto) without runs or being too dry/transparent. The speed you spray at depends on how much paint you put onto the surface; it's pretty easy to understand how fast you need to go depending on how much paint comes out of your gun :).
Painting the wheel is done best by doing it in segments - face, inside of spokes on one edge, inside of spokes on the other, lip, rear of wheel. Just spray it evenly and straight at the surface until the colour you're painting on is solid. Remember, you can quite easily overdo it! - so it's best to leave dry/uneven marks until later.
For the rear of the wheel, I adjusted the gun to give a wider spray pattern (about 70-80 degrees out of the gun nozzle) and a bit more paint. I set the gun so that when spraying paint, it looks like powder whilst in the air, and comes out quite wide. This is best for the back of the wheel as it easily covers the larger areas that don't need as much accuracy.
Pics:
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I've been offered a really nice dark metallic paint to use if I want to....what do people think of the charcoal metallic you see on Mazda 3's? :)
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...img_0544-2.jpg
http://www.vwwatercooled.com.au/foru...img_0545-2.jpg
I can either use this colour on its own or mix my audi paint with it. I have a feeling I won't like my audi paint on its own, because it's going to be too light for the comparison with the polished surface.
I'll be finishing this wheel off before starting the others, so that I can keep updating this thread :) so stay tuned!
Cheers.
