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Rootes75
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 Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 11:45 am Post subject: Painting Round Windows |
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I am quite a way through prepping the cab on my vintage lorry for spraying and am now planning masking off etc.
I have seen some restorers fit all the window glass / rubbers fist then mask off but other fully spray then fit the glass / rubbers.
Any opinions? |
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Rick
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Old Wrench
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:04 pm Post subject: Re: Painting Round Windows |
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| Rootes75 wrote: | I am quite a way through prepping the cab on my vintage lorry for spraying and am now planning masking off etc.
I have seen some restorers fit all the window glass / rubbers fist then mask off but other fully spray then fit the glass / rubbers.
Any opinions? |
Even if you have not/are not going back to bare metal, a most common place for creeping rot is behind old rubber weatherseal on screens etc.
Additionally, any original mastic (such as Bostick, Dum Dum etc) will be extremely hard, fractured and letting water in and stay: = Rust!
Prep all the metalwork, as Rick states: and mask the whole apertures from the inside.
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Rootes75
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:32 pm Post subject: |
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| She has been taken back to bare and then built up from there. She has no glass / rubbers on her at all. My gut feel has been to paint then fit it all back on...carefully! |
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D4B
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes I would prep / paint and only then refit the windows.... |
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kevin2306
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But what if new seals are not available?
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D4B
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| Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Rootes75 wrote: | | She has been taken back to bare and then built up from there. She has no glass / rubbers on her at all. My gut feel has been to paint then fit it all back on...carefully! |
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Old Wrench
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Rootes75
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| I have never come across Baines before, they look very good. Thanks for the link. |
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