painting mi landy, advise sought.

Aug 22, 2004 6 Replies
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just prepping the tub for its annual makeover due to the capping having lost part of its galvenising ill have to paint it, the tubs gunna be green and i wonderd what the groups reccommendations are for the capping, ( i Know its best left galved, but unless i regalve it all, its not an option)



i thought 1, black ( but think it could look tatty, not sure) 2, a different shade of DBG maybe darker


second question is in what order should i paint, capping first, tub second. or the other way round, i just dont want to mask new paint up, to rip it off when i unmask.



any advise greatly appreciated.


Andy


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Get a tin of Aluminium paint or Silver paint and do the cappings with it, looks close enough to galvanised metal.

Alex

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Hammered silver hammerite looks okay too.

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If you mix a bit of black hammerite in (not very well - don't stir too much), it looks even more like weathered galv.

Tip courtesy of Dave Reynolds, my kitchen, yesterday.

Rich

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I will try that next time! Some of my galvanising needs a bit of paint as its all rusty :(

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Yuck! Don't paint bits that are meant to be galv - regalv it! Get yourself a big pile of bits and get them all done at once, it looks so much better and that's the job done for another twenty years :)

Regards

William MacLeod

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Too late!. I've already redone some bits. I'm trying to keep the galv but its slowly going away! Its only on one of the doors anyhow. I shall probably have to replace the whole door in the not too distant future anyhow.

I reckon that i will wear out the body panels before the galvanised bits!

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