{"id":401,"date":"2015-04-23T12:22:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T16:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/putrescence.org\/wordpress\/?p=401"},"modified":"2015-04-23T12:22:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-23T16:22:35","slug":"paint-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"Paint sucks."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was lamenting the primer\/sand\/primer\/sand\/primer\/sand\/base\/sand\/base\/sand\/base\/sand\/clear\/sand\/clear\/sand\/polish process to a co-worker and he asked me why I was bothering to paint it. \u00a0&#8220;Just wrap it&#8221;, he said. \u00a0My immediate thought was that I could&#8217;t vinyl wrap it because&#8230; \u00a0er.. \u00a0well&#8230; \u00a0uhm.. \u00a0heeeeyyyyy&#8230; \u00a0why can&#8217;t I vinyl wrap it!?<\/p>\n<p>I ordered a 5&#8217;x2&#8242; sheet of 3M 1080 in Gloss Blue Metallic, got some knifeless tape, and then went to Meijer for a can of denatured alcohol, some silicon kitchen spatulas to use as squeegees, a bottle of propane, some good scissors, and got to work.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to start off easy, so I tried the gas door. \u00a0I had already sanded and primered it, but my first lesson was that any little imperfection in or on the surface will be VERY obvious in the vinyl. \u00a0The gas door had a couple tiny little particles of paint on it that caused some really ugly bumps all over the surface, so I pulled the vinyl off, and used a razor blade to smooth the surface of the door. \u00a0Once it was smooth, I pulled out a new bit of vinyl and with a little stretching, squeegee-ing, and some heat from the torch, I got this:<\/p>\n<style id=\"bwg-style-0\">    #bwg_container1_0 #bwg_container2_0 .bwg-container-0.bwg-standard-thumbnails {      width: 904px; 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           return false;        });      <\/script>      <\/span>                <\/div>        <\/form>              <\/div>    <\/div>    <script>      if (document.readyState === 'complete') {        if( typeof bwg_main_ready == 'function' ) {          if ( jQuery(\"#bwg_container1_0\").height() ) {            bwg_main_ready(jQuery(\"#bwg_container1_0\"));          }        }      } else {        document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {          if( typeof bwg_main_ready == 'function' ) {            if ( jQuery(\"#bwg_container1_0\").height() ) {             bwg_main_ready(jQuery(\"#bwg_container1_0\"));            }          }        });      }    <\/script>    \n<p>I am very impressed with how nice it winds up looking! \u00a0It has a deepness and uniformity to the color which would have been very difficult for me to achieve with paint. \u00a0It also doesn&#8217;t want to chip very easily, but it does seem to be easy to scratch &#8212; the vinyl wound up having a couple scratches in it as it came off the roll.<\/p>\n<p>My next attempt was the lid for one of the side bags. \u00a0I tried doing it as one piece, all the way around, and I just can&#8217;t get the vinyl to shrink enough around the corners. \u00a0On one side, I managed to burn a hole through and on the other, it just won&#8217;t un-wrinkle. \u00a0I&#8217;m going to peel back some of that vinyl and use the knifeless tape to put a seam in to finish that one without wasting the vinyl that&#8217;s already on (or at least most of it) and then I&#8217;ll do the other side making sure that I put the seam on the side that faces towards the frame. \u00a0Future parts will need to be done similarly to avoid that mess.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not entirely sure how much of this stuff I&#8217;ll wind up needing, but I ordered another roll 30&#8217;x5&#8242; 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