I am hoping to respray my Taifun grill which at some point seems to have had a light spray coat applied. My home pressure washer took some off but not enough so will need to get the rest off before spraying black.
I have a Dremel and wondered if any attachments would be suited to this but not so aggressive to damage the plastic itself or is a paint stripper better?
Then onto spraying it black. Can anyone recommend a decent primer and black spray paint? I will do lower and rear grills too.
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Grill Paint Removal and respray
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Re: Grill Paint Removal and respray
Take a step back and save yourself a heap of time. Take it a blaster, bung him a tenner and it'll come back perfectly clean, slightly coarse from the sand but this provides a brilliant surface for the paint to key to. Did mine myself with plasterers sand from B&Q, painted with a tin of matt black from Halfords about 3 years ago, it still looks mint.
Why would the glass be anything other than half full?
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Re: Grill Paint Removal and respray
Haha I beat you too it, just dropped it of at a local blasters and he is going to see if it will soda blast OK.
So my next question is is their a special paint I need that wont flake off, and do I need to add a gloss clear coat on top to protect?
I will be doing lower and rear grills also so will use this for them.
Steel wheels need doing in black also, anything you would recommend for them? I guess more durable and high temp from braking?
So my next question is is their a special paint I need that wont flake off, and do I need to add a gloss clear coat on top to protect?
I will be doing lower and rear grills also so will use this for them.
Steel wheels need doing in black also, anything you would recommend for them? I guess more durable and high temp from braking?
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Re: Grill Paint Removal and respray
Same for me. I lightly sand blasted mine, sprayed with standard matt black can. Did it years ago, still as good as when done.
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