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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2008 9:46:14 GMT
Did anyone see the gadget show this week? they had a really cool bit of kit from Hammerite, called a metalmaster. This clever little gun works by you first earthing it to whatever metal needs painting then by pulling trigger it emits a fine spray of paint which is electrostacticly attracted to earthed metal giving an even coat and here's the really clever bit, it coats all sides, so say if your painting railings it covers both sides evenly. So I got to thinking what would happen if you earthed your chassis you could theoretically paint everywhere underneath including inside the cills and any little nooks and crannies previously unreachable. you can see this paint gun on the b&q website. ScarlettWill
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Post by Phil Nottingham on Jun 15, 2008 15:45:20 GMT
The metal would have to be clean all over though and on 40 year car underside??? The process was probably used to prime the shells anyway and teh paint film does not get inside box sections very far
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Post by norvin on Jun 30, 2008 17:14:28 GMT
I think this system was used by British Leyland to paint car shells, but had a few problems with it at the time, sounds good on the face of it, but a lot of this d i y stuff never seems to work like the professional kit.
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Post by johnwp5bcoupe on Jun 30, 2008 17:15:58 GMT
Did anyone see the gadget show this week? they had a really cool bit of kit from Hammerite, called a metalmaster. This clever little gun works by you first earthing it to whatever metal needs painting then by pulling trigger it emits a fine spray of paint which is electrostacticly attracted to earthed metal giving an even coat and here's the really clever bit, it coats all sides, so say if your painting railings it covers both sides evenly. So I got to thinking what would happen if you earthed your chassis you could theoretically paint everywhere underneath including inside the cills and any little nooks and crannies previously unreachable. you can see this paint gun on the b&q website. ScarlettWill On sale at Homebase   |
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Post by dorsetflyer on Jul 1, 2008 11:20:05 GMT
That's true BL did introduce electrostatic painting whereby paint was attracted to all surfaces inside and out, so in theory every inside surface that couldn't be reached was covered as well.
A great idea which never worked properly, and half the undersides and inner chassis surfaces remained virtually bare metal.
The secret of this process to get it to work, every sqare inch of surface must be spotlessly clean which is almost impossible.
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