American Car - November 2015

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I seem to have accumulated a

vast collection of spray guns,

which is odd as I'm the last person

who'd be keen to spray anything,

but the only one I found that had

the right air-line &itting for my

compressor was a small, gravity-

feed one that I got as part of a kit

of parts from Aldi! So I mixed the

remnants of the primer, chucked it

in the cup (24)and, after a good

rub-down with thinners and a rag to

get rid of the red dust, I blew the

primer on(25).

Wacky had told me that this

primer was very easy to use, but I

think he'd underestimated my

idiocy when it comes to paint

spraying(26). The &inish wasn't too

bad, I suppose, though I believe a

barely-trained chimp could have

achieved higher marks for both

technical and artistic merit. The

pitting from the rust is still very

much visible (27)but that's

de&initely a job for another time.

As mentioned earlier, the most

important thing to do with a shell

in bare metal is to whack a coat of

primer on to protect from

corrosion. However, even the best

primer is still slightly porous – it's

the lacquer in the topcoat that

provides the waterproof outer

coating – so unless you can

guarantee desert-like conditions

for storing your primed shell, it

needs to get some paint on it, and

quickly. Stay tuned to see how we

get on... ACM

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