Random Thought Thread

[toker]

Oh my God

Right? Next thing I know I was wearing a yellow Kevlar dress running around chopping things.

 

[SharpBits]

Kel-tec is carrying on an old idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_clip-fed_firearms

 

[yoko]

Slow day at the shop today , so I took some pictures of my process in the paint booth

All panels sanded, ready for plastic (the EDC 1.2 is a joy to use for this)



Next step after finding a color variation that matches is to spray the replacement door and adjacent blend panels with the recommended sealer shade (in this case it is black)

 

[yoko]

Next is what is called wet bed on the blend panels (this prevents the edges of sealer showing through the base coat or standing the metallic up)



Once sprayed I use the flash function on my booth ... air blowers near the top of the booth blow warm air on the panels and the booth also warms up to 110


Time for base coat!

The first coat covered well , (you can still see a little bit of the sealer through it) so 1 more coat of base

Next step is called a control coat... here I'm making sure my metallic is even and my color blends transition out smoothly

 

[yoko]

Final step is clear coat (I try to mimick the factory texture when I clear)



1 coat wait 10 minutes and spray the second coat, time to bake!

Thought this might be cool to see for some members!

 

[SharpBits]

Quality body work always seems a bit like magic to me. Yoko the Wizard

 

[ironwagon]

Looks good bro and thanks for walking us through it.

 

[Nathan the Machinist]

Final step is clear coat (I try to mimick the factory texture when I clear)

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1 coat wait 10 minutes and spray the second coat, time to bake!

Thought this might be cool to see for some members!

That's pretty cool

 

[toker]

Thought this might be cool to see for some members!

That's a lot more interesting than what I'm doing. No one ever saw one of my spreadsheets and thought... "That's my dream job!".

 

[yoko]

Thanks everyone!

I'm lucky enough to have a job I enjoy , and it's always cool for people that might be curious about it to see pictures and get a little explanation

 

[Mendoman]

Dropped a couple of trees today. When I stopped to refuel this guy showed up and started eating the tops.

 

[clinton1]

Final step is clear coat (I try to mimick the factory texture when I clear)

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1 coat wait 10 minutes and spray the second coat, time to bake!

Thought this might be cool to see for some members!

True artwork, my friend! Takes real skill being able to make it look right!

 

[clinton1]

Not to scale??!!

 

[Pete M]

Not to scale??!!
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Apparently, the engineers from Prometheus weren't aliens, they were just Dutch.

 

[toker]

Not to scale??!!
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I don't know about that. I'm Indonesia height and I can confirm that everyone looks huge to me.

 

[Murphjd25]

Well got half hour to kill so my sled can cool down This years snow conditions are almost worse then last year.

 

[Murphjd25]

I’ve had this entire compound to myself today though

 

[SharpBits]

I hear Louisiana has good snow this year!

 

[Murphjd25]

I downloaded On X Off-road and it’s got a snow option on it that is legit amazeballs. Has every single snowmobile trail you can think of and works offline. Game changer.

 

[Burke]

Quality body work always seems a bit like magic to me. Yoko the Wizard

It’s one of those things I intellectually understand….but could never actually execute so it looked good.