How long to paint your chassis?

[RAYLEE29]

just wondered how long you guys have been taking to paint your chassis and what colour and paint and application method? been doing mine satin black smooth hammerite with a paintbrush and its taking forever! Ray

[geeman]

It took me and a helper about 3-4 hours work in all to do 3 coats of hammerite. one thing i found helpful was a 2 in paint brush , but im not sure others will agree . I firstly cleaned off the chassis with petrol, and then qwith water and then painted it.

edit, should mention i mean 3-4 hours work excluding several days of drying.....

[HandyAndy]

this brings back memories

yes it took ages for mine too,
2 coats of primer then 2 coats of top coat,

tho even when its fully painted there has been a few scratches & my chassis needs a few touch ups.

to allow decent drying times between coats it took approx 10 days to complete the painting process .

cheers
andy

[AshG]

rubbed mine down and sprayed it in a day. did the second coat the following morning. it was hard work but everyone that has seen the car has commented on how good the paint finish is on the chassis.

[Talonmotorsport]

We used hammered effect hammerite on new bare steel a few weeks ago and it's like trying to pin water to the wall! In the end we degreased it with car painters pannel wipes and sprayed the whole thing with etch primer to give it a good base. If your doing large areas with hammerite ie 8x2 pannels etc try using a roller it gives a very neat finish, as for trying to spray with it good sodding luck!!!

[Bonzo]

Hi Ray

You may remember, my chassis had a light coat of rust !!??

This was all wire brushed using mainly a twisted wire wheel in the grinder, hand brush & production paper for the hard to get to areas.

I gave the chassis 2 coats of Galvafroid, this was put on with a small radiator roller & 1/2' brush.

Then applied a 3 light coats of smooth Hammerite by spray. I used a small touch up gun with a large fluid tip ( This will avoid paint wastage )
If Hammerite is thinned correctly, it will spray OK.


Went with Red, just to be different Although the more I look at it, the more I am not liking it

It'll end up black or silver

[AshG]

i used epoxy mastic 121. hammerite is rubbish and takes ages to dry.

[Bonzo]

I must agree Ash

Hammerite is not the paint that it used to be

My goal was to be rid of the rust, with a view of a re-paint before final assembly.

I have used some marine epoxy paints, as you say, they are good & dry rock hard.

Can I ask where you got your epoxy from ?

[NEroadster]

I have used metal ready to keep the rust at bay during the build and also once the chassis was finished. This worked brilliantly at preventing further rust and also removing existing rust. It also acts as an etch primer. Finally I am planning to use the POR 15 range I have already used it on the wishbones and front uprights and am very pleased with the result. All paint available from Frost auto restorations

[adrianreeve]

I'm totally chickening out here and getting the chassis and wishbones powdercoated in satin black. I used to work for a galvanisers / powdercoaters, and the finish is hard to beat IMHO.

Cheers

Adrian