Sill cover stone chip

[t-tony]

I bought a decent size compressor from Machine Mart a couple of months back. I've got a ton of uses for it including spraying this stuff. But I know once I start playing with it, it will become a toy and I'll start doing jobs with it I wouldn't otherwise have done. So it's stayed in the box until I'm on top of the engine replacement!

I also have to respray parts of the 2.2 engine bay so I'll be doing plenty of practising with spray guns and aerosols soon

When you get to spraying anything you will need an inline pressure reducer (you maybe already know this mate) to adjust the pressure through your spray gun whether painting or applying "Schultz" (under seal) or stone chip and you can alter the texture of the finish by increasing - decreasing the working pressure too. Again you need to practice.

Tony.

 

[gookah]

or just get some other arsehole to do it......




Sorry...... I meant aerosol...

 

[t-tony]

Me too

Tony.

 

[Dickymint]

Well I have this job to do soon and want to do it properly and as far as I know painting has never been my "thing" but that's only been with paint cans so we shall see, the amount of things I have had to buy has been expensive and required the last 6 months in research and i'm still not sure I have the right paint and stuff but we shall see...... getting nervous now

TBH it would have been cheaper to get it done in a body shop but would they have do it with the same OCD that I have? I have watched about 50 hours of you tube video's of body shops dealing with rust and I don't think i'd want even one of them touching my car not because they arnt good its just they cant afford the time to do what I'd like done, there was a quote last night by one body shop guy that really summed it up, he said that body shops don't make money treating rust that's why it gets cut out and new panels welded in. but even then when they replace parts of cars sometimes its impossible for then to get behind the panel and paint the welding and that would kill me knowing its bare metal

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When you get to spraying anything you will need an inline pressure reducer (you maybe already know this mate) to adjust the pressure through your spray gun whether painting or applying "Schultz" (under seal) or stone chip and you can alter the texture of the finish by increasing - decreasing the working pressure too. Again you need to practice.

Tony."

that's a good tip m8 ordered the gun and compressor ect, I also saw a video where a guy poured out the stone chip and thinned it down and it sprayed nice and flat so was thinking about doing that for bits like parts of the spare wheel carrier etc. and just to get back to my reason for posting in the first place (get carried away!) will the stone chip paint stick to epoxy primer ok?

 

[mrscalex]

When you get to spraying anything you will need an inline pressure reducer (you maybe already know this mate) to adjust the pressure through your spray gun whether painting or applying "Schultz" (under seal) or stone chip and you can alter the texture of the finish by increasing - decreasing the working pressure too. Again you need to practice.

Tony.

To be honest I'll probably try the spray can stuff first that nodzed told us about.

I take it the reducer is for a compressor? And that the Z3 sill pattern requires a lower pressure than what the compressor would chuck out normally?

 

[Bonzeau]

I take it you are going to remove the sills, there will be rust and crud on the inner surface to rectify.

Bonzo.

 

[mrscalex]

I take it you are going to remove the sills, there will be rust and crud on the inner surface to rectify.

Bonzo.

Oh yes. I am a preacher of this philosophy

 

[MartinN]

just attempted the same job I thought about using the smooth stuff then going over it with a roller but my spraying is so Cr@p I didnt need to

 

[Bonzeau]

My sills looked fine when viewed from the side, but were shot on the undersides front and rear. I got new sills from Rybrook BMW, (Soper's won't mail order big or fragile stuff), and got them painted and stone chipped along with the front flank panels you have to remove. The whole project was fairly hard work for someone of my advancing age, but very satisfying. I replaced the 'roadster' sill, carpet and 'C' pillar covers and most of the fixing bolts, clips and some nuts for the sills. I bought an £8 pair of universal mudflaps from Halfords and trimmed them down to fit the front wheel arches and sills. this was a long job because you had to keep trimming away gradually so you don't cut away too muchView attachment 55162 View attachment 55162 't cut away too much.

 

[Bonzeau]

the finished job!

 

[Bonzeau]

Oops, some waxoyl to remove from around that fixing bolt.