Gideon's Make-Over: The Stripping and the Priming
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Gideon's Make-Over: The Stripping and the Priming
Well, I bit the bullet and decided to try my hand at repainting Gideon, my poor battered 201-2. We've gotten past the easy parts, stripping off the paint and priming him for the paint, but there's still a lot of work to be done!
The Stripping:
Gideon with the paint I'm planning on using.
It's really amazing--the paint stripper got on a little bit of his serial number, and took the 'brassy' color right off it! I wonder what it was... Unfortunately I wound up having to remove the rest of the brassy color on the serial number, but does anyone know if that's normal?
A little rust popped up when I was wiping him down... Good thing I'm using Rustoleum!
Much as I loved the flavor of the signatures that were scrawled into his finish, I'm glad they didn't go all the way through to the metal. I don't have the materials to sand him that smooth!
The Priming:
All primed and ready to go!
Forgot to cover his model number and serial number... Luckily I was able to clean them off with a quick application of paint remover!
Managed to miss his underside completely. D'oh! I'll just prime it quickly before I apply the black; in theory that won't hurt him one bit!
Everything went on very smoothly. While it's not going to be a perfect job (as I wasn't able to remove all the paint), I think he'll look much much better than he did when I got him. At the very least this paint job will be enough to protect him and make him pretty until I have the money to take him to an autobody shop to be professionally repainted!
I'll update this post when I do the black sometime either this week or this weekend--depends on how the weather holds up!
The Stripping:
Gideon with the paint I'm planning on using.
It's really amazing--the paint stripper got on a little bit of his serial number, and took the 'brassy' color right off it! I wonder what it was... Unfortunately I wound up having to remove the rest of the brassy color on the serial number, but does anyone know if that's normal?
A little rust popped up when I was wiping him down... Good thing I'm using Rustoleum!
Much as I loved the flavor of the signatures that were scrawled into his finish, I'm glad they didn't go all the way through to the metal. I don't have the materials to sand him that smooth!
The Priming:
All primed and ready to go!
Forgot to cover his model number and serial number... Luckily I was able to clean them off with a quick application of paint remover!
Managed to miss his underside completely. D'oh! I'll just prime it quickly before I apply the black; in theory that won't hurt him one bit!
Everything went on very smoothly. While it's not going to be a perfect job (as I wasn't able to remove all the paint), I think he'll look much much better than he did when I got him. At the very least this paint job will be enough to protect him and make him pretty until I have the money to take him to an autobody shop to be professionally repainted!
I'll update this post when I do the black sometime either this week or this weekend--depends on how the weather holds up!
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Well, I bit the bullet and decided to try my hand at repainting Gideon, my poor battered 201-2. We've gotten past the easy parts, stripping off the paint and priming him for the paint, but there's still a lot of work to be done!
The Stripping:
Gideon with the paint I'm planning on using.
It's really amazing--the paint stripper got on a little bit of his serial number, and took the 'brassy' color right off it! I wonder what it was... Unfortunately I wound up having to remove the rest of the brassy color on the serial number, but does anyone know if that's normal?
A little rust popped up when I was wiping him down... Good thing I'm using Rustoleum!
Much as I loved the flavor of the signatures that were scrawled into his finish, I'm glad they didn't go all the way through to the metal. I don't have the materials to sand him that smooth!
The Priming:
All primed and ready to go!
Forgot to cover his model number and serial number... Luckily I was able to clean them off with a quick application of paint remover!
Managed to miss his underside completely. D'oh! I'll just prime it quickly before I apply the black; in theory that won't hurt him one bit!
Everything went on very smoothly. While it's not going to be a perfect job (as I wasn't able to remove all the paint), I think he'll look much much better than he did when I got him. At the very least this paint job will be enough to protect him and make him pretty until I have the money to take him to an autobody shop to be professionally repainted!
I'll update this post when I do the black sometime either this week or this weekend--depends on how the weather holds up!
The Stripping:
Gideon with the paint I'm planning on using.
It's really amazing--the paint stripper got on a little bit of his serial number, and took the 'brassy' color right off it! I wonder what it was... Unfortunately I wound up having to remove the rest of the brassy color on the serial number, but does anyone know if that's normal?
A little rust popped up when I was wiping him down... Good thing I'm using Rustoleum!
Much as I loved the flavor of the signatures that were scrawled into his finish, I'm glad they didn't go all the way through to the metal. I don't have the materials to sand him that smooth!
The Priming:
All primed and ready to go!
Forgot to cover his model number and serial number... Luckily I was able to clean them off with a quick application of paint remover!
Managed to miss his underside completely. D'oh! I'll just prime it quickly before I apply the black; in theory that won't hurt him one bit!
Everything went on very smoothly. While it's not going to be a perfect job (as I wasn't able to remove all the paint), I think he'll look much much better than he did when I got him. At the very least this paint job will be enough to protect him and make him pretty until I have the money to take him to an autobody shop to be professionally repainted!
I'll update this post when I do the black sometime either this week or this weekend--depends on how the weather holds up!
How you get the pictures in with the words in beween?
Is there something in the set-up I am missing when I load photos?
#3
Is it possible to buy new decals somewhere? You'd think with so many people doing stuff like this someone would have produced gold Singer decals or decorative bits. Fascinating job! Looking forward to seeing the results.
#5
You need to have a photo host of some sort; I use Photobucket, but you can use any site, even Facebook, that lets you right-click on an image and click "copy image location". Once you have that URL in one form or another, you can post it by using the following template.
Code:
[img]URL GOES HERE[/img] Here is my lovely picture!
#6
Yup! I got mine from an eBay seller, Keeler Sales. I had some eBay bucks to use, and it was actually cheaper to buy them on eBay than from their actual website. The more you know!
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There's another person who used Rustoleum (link here, if you're interested), and they seemed to get pretty good results with it.
#10
Yeah, I almost went for the colonial red; but I figured I'd play it safe and go with a color that would be more traditional (and hopefully more forgiving if I messed it up)--classic black. Sadly it doesn't look like the weather's going to cooperate for at least a couple weeks; the humidity needs to be below %50, and after weeks of near drought conditions it looks like we're finally getting that rain. Sigh. Why must you thwart me Mother Nature!
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