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You can polish a turd...

Postby rainjer » Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:04 pm

Before:

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Almost done:

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Brothers:

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The vent is painted with a high them black engine paint. I painted it before I took the lantern apart. I baked it on by firing up the the lantern and put the vent back on for almost an hour. So far, so good.

I just need a custom decal, & it will be done.

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Postby Zollinger » Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:14 pm

Wow! Nice looking turd. 8) :thinking: I guess you really can polish a turd.
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Postby starleen2 » Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:36 pm

you can polish it all you want - but then you'd have a polished Turd!
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Postby hotrod » Tue Jun 29, 2010 9:55 pm

starleen2 wrote:you can polish it all you want - but then you'd have a polished Turd!

weve had this arguement on the neverending thread, yes you can polish a turd. :lol:
Looks awesome Jeremy! :thumbsup:
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Postby teardrop_focus » Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:02 am

What a neat lantern combo!

Nicely done!

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Re: You can polish a turd...

Postby doitright » Wed Jun 30, 2010 6:46 am

rainjer wrote:Before:

Image

Almost done:

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Brothers:

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The vent is painted with a high them black engine paint. I painted it before I took the lantern apart. I baked it on by firing up the the lantern and put the vent back on for almost an hour. So far, so good.

I just need a custom decal, & it will be done.

Jeremy


First blue TURD I have seen. :lol: :lol: :lol: Bet it looks good with all your Sears stuff
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Re: You can polish a turd...

Postby planovet » Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:01 am

doitright wrote:First blue TURD I have seen.


What about a Smurf turd? :thinking: :lol:
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Postby doug hodder » Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:21 am

Jeremy....did you do anything to prep the vent prior to spraying it other than just cleaning it. Any scuff? Doug
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Postby rainjer » Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:08 pm

doug hodder wrote:Jeremy....did you do anything to prep the vent prior to spraying it other than just cleaning it. Any scuff? Doug


I use an air grinder with a scotch-brite pad and scuffed it up just enough to take the shine away. I was going to take it to wotk and sand blast it but I thought I would try this first.

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Postby Zollinger » Wed Jun 30, 2010 4:32 pm

Jeremy, did you prime it after scuffing it up? Just wanna know because if it works I'm gonna also try it.
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Postby rainjer » Wed Jun 30, 2010 6:29 pm

Zollinger wrote:Jeremy, did you prime it after scuffing it up? Just wanna know because if it works I'm gonna also try it.


No primer. I took it off the lantern to paint it, lit the lantern & carefully set it back on to to heat up and bake for a while then turned the lantern off. Once cool to touch I repeated this 2 more times.

Keep in mind that this will not be a daily driver. It was just for fun and it will get used only once in a while.

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Postby doug hodder » Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:25 pm

I sprayed the oven on my 2E with the engine enamel...supposed to handle 500 F. That's about as high of a temp that you'll get on a gloss paint. I've fired the stove, but haven't taken a chance on the oven. Doug
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