Shining under the hood

[bowtie-72]

Damn, looks great Kenny! Just wondering if you were to shoot that with some clear-coat, would it preserve that finish or would it just yellow/cloud up?

 

[Hipster]

Yea, it takes a while.

My first thought "wow, somebody's been busy"

I like it.

 

[Vodka0tter]

Thats a ton of work - and it looks great!!

How will you protect it, or will you just maintain the polish each season?

 

[Hipster]

I'll be dropping off a set of wheels and a Harley that's got some billet this afternoon for you to do your majic. I need the stuff back by Friday. LOL

 

[kennythewelder]

No clear coat for me. I will just keep it polished. The polish does have a sealer in it, but I will need to repolish from time to time. Its Its not hard to keep up, once its done. If you clear coat, that will yellow in time, and then you have to use paint stripper to remove that. Then start over. Its a lot easies to just keep it polished. About once every 6 months or so is enough. I have done my rims, and aluminum tailgate banner also. Rims are easy to keep up with, but the tailgate banner takes a lot more attention. IDK why, it does, maybe because of where it is, and it gets a lot of abuse because of where it is, or maybe because of the type of aluminum it is. First T G banner pic, is before I repainted the letters.

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[s98gmc]

Looks amazing! Something to keep in my for my GMC.

 

[alpinecrick]

Kenny,
What did you use to paint the letters back in on your aluminum tailgate banner?

 

[kennythewelder]

Kenny,
What did you use to paint the letters back in on your aluminum tailgate banner?

Some black acrylic enamel spray paint. The hard part was taping them off

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[kennythewelder]

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Oh and in this pic ( where you can see my big fat gut, HaHa) I had not painted the letters yet.
I stripped all of the clear coat off with some air craft spray on paint stripper. Of course, I tapped everything off first

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[alpinecrick]

Some black acrylic enamel spray paint. The hard part was taping them off

Yeah, I know taping off the letters will take some time--luckily I'm a painting contractor and at times do a lot of masking.

I was going to try and just polish off the remnant clear coating, using a foam wheel and chrome polish.