Patching up your kit

[Muz]

Just wondering what some of you fellas do when you need to tidy up your gear paint wise , do you just get a tin of laquer and brush on .. do you do sections, or do you take panels off where possible and go for a respray ?


Some kit Ive bought over the years has bloody awfull paint work .. Thwaites dumpers were terrible for it .. anyway .. your views ?

[ianoz]

I guess i will get to find out at Xmas time .Silk purse out of a pigs ear time for the JCB 8080 . Not into brushes ,so spraygun will be the way to go .

[FrankB]

I just use a brush, bit I stick to the manufacturers paint. Its much more expensive, but it seems to bond better and lasts a lot longer, especially if you are hitting it with a steam cleaner from time to time

[wee_gus]

tend to stick to manufacturers own paint and spray it on, the way i do it is use a grinder with a flap disk to get the bad bits off. then spray it with an undercoat something along the lines of red lead.. then if it turns out ok spary the base coat and then the top coat.
hope this helps

[Local diggers]

I dont put a mark on my machines, im too careful...


...yeah right.