Remove all paint to bare metal, don't contaminate the bare metal with any
oils or esp. Armor All type stuff... keep that far away!

Use a good epoxy enamel primer, then go with a base coat - clear coat paint
combo, for the best results!

See link to photo of these results.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/77623993@N00/2634100682/

Jack

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Angus Gordon
Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 11:15 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Painting Van Tip's needed

Tremclad = Canada

Rustoleum = U.S.

I'm a big fan of roller/brush paint jobs. I'd agree with Craig that thinning
the next coat more might help. Or maybe adopt a 12 foot standard! How about
running the engine with one plug wire removed to help settle the paint?  :-)

Angus

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Angus Gordon
'86 Syncro
'89 Carat

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On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:11 PM, craig cowan <phishman068@gmail.com> wrote:

> My guess would be you either didn't thin it (or didn't thin it enough),
> shook it (The instructions should have been clear on STIRRING), or maybe
> you
> didn't clean the surface well enough before applying. I'd let it dry, wet
> sand it all down (600? Or is that too agressive), and paint over it after
> thinning the paint a bit more.
> The instructions i've seen listed "Tremclad" Paint more specifically than
> just rustoleum, but they were all clear on thinning the paint quite a bit
> and applying multiple coats with wetsanding inbetween.
>
> I thought about doing the 6ft tremclad job, but have decided against it. I
> might plunge into it Benny Boy style and just do the body work the right
> way. I'd love to see pictures of your job though! I think thats a much
more
> durable, infinately more touch-up-able, and much cheaper/simpler approach
> to
> making a car look pretty good.
>
> I hope this helps.
> -Craig
> '85GL
>
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Jim Morgan <JM060356@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Greetings O  Great and powerful list.
> >
> > I am starting to paint my 80 Air coled van with rustolum. I have found
> > several sites that have done cars and vans but having trouble with small
> > air
> > bubbles from the foam roller. This is not up to my standard of a 6 foot
> > paint  job.
> > ( looks good from a 6 foot distance) Any one have any Ideas?
> >
> > Paint colors are gloss almond on the upper half and the bottom half is
> >  safty
> > orange.
> >
> > Go Browns!!
> >
> > Jim Morgan 80"stink bomb"
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>