This morning Michelle and I un-masked the hood and fenders and looked over the window frames, and trim pieces. The major problem that I found was that the plastic film that I had used to mask the beige areas of the hood and front fenders had either stuck to the paint or had left some manner of film on the paint. Not sure what I am dealing with yet, the paint was definately dry and I used a new roll of plastic masking film. I will deal with it prior to color sanding the paint. I was hoping that I could get away with only painting the interior sides of the window frames, but it was not to be, I decided that I would have to spray the back side of all the window frames.
The tailgate for all the work I had to put into it, turned out really pretty nice!

I ran out of room in the garage so I am storing all the painted pieces in the office until I can move the wagon back into the shop … should have made the shop bigger ;-(

The Wagon Spreads Out To The Office!

Since I had to paint the back of the window frames, Jerry brought over his air brush for me to try out. It did a really nice job working on the edges of the frames. I will try it out on the driver’s door tomorrow when I fix the area that was messed up when the plastic masking on the interior of the window frame came loose and got into the fresh orange paint on the door.

Finishing Up The Window Frames

This morning I un masked the window frames and looked them over. Back taping the fraames worked really well. I was able to protect the glossy parts while painting the edges which I could not get to when I sprayed them the first time. The touch up air brush did a great job! This morning I was able to find the manual for it on line from Binks, still supported after all of these years, amazing!

Completed Window Frames

Now to clean up the booth a bit and move the wagon over to repair the oops on the driver door.

Fixing a Couple of Small Problems

We got the wagon moved over to the shop bay and into the spray booth so that I could touch up the two areas that had been messed up with plastic that was used to mask the window openings. Between the sealer step and the 2nd coat of orange, the tape holding the plastic let go and when I was spraying the 2nd coat the plastic blew out and got into the fresh paint. The worst problem was the drivers door followed by a small area on the rear driver side door. I used a fresh piece of 400 sandpaper on a soft block to level and feather the damage. I then masked the rest of the door frames off prior to laying down a seal coat of 3025. I again used the little touch up air brush that Jerry had brought over. I let the sealer set for about 30 minutes while I cleaned the air brush and mixed up some Madagascar Orange. I need to work out something better for mixing really small quantities of paint. As it turned out I ended up tossing almost all of the paint that I had mixed. The little touch up brush makes paint go a loooong way! While I was at it I also touched up both of the windshield frames, missed both lower outside corners again!

Tomorrow I will push the wagon outside and take down the booth and give the shop a good cleaning. Then the wagon goes back on the lift to pull the 3rd member and the steering column to take down to the valley for repair. When we get back I plan to start on the color sanding. I received my wetdry 3M paper last Friday, I ordered it in grits of 1000, 1200, 1500, 2000 and 2500.

Till next time!