painted some topcoat on half the roof yesterday before it looked like it was going to rain again. Last night it tipped down, and the unpainted half of the roof got buggered (water based primer, remember?) by the wet, despite being dry by the time it was rained on.
so, in a fit of temper I got the pressure washer out and blasted ALL the new paint off again, thereby demonstrating how well it hadn't stuck. Black machinery enamel on the bumper and the crossmember stood up nicely to the efforts of the pressure washer, despite the fact that it, too, was put on with my usual assiduous lack of preparation.
I've now bought red and blue machinery enamel, and will mix the 2 together and paint it with that.
I've also parked it in next-door's barn for the purpose, although naturally it pissed down on it beforehand, so I won't be painting it 'til tomorrow morning.
sodding Leyland paint. must have taken it's design criteria from the car company of the same name, sometime around 1976.