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Monday, 25 May 2009

Respraying the Audi towbar

I bought a used towbar for the Audi off ebay, cost me £54 delivered.
Not bad considering the same item costs £144 new and comes with a bunch of tat I don't need.
All it needs is repainting, to be honest if I had bought a new one I would have still repainted it as the paint they use is nothing short of shite.

Before
Soon removed the corrosion with a wire-wheel, gave it a few coats of QDAC primer
that's Quick Drying Anti-Corrosive primer to you.

During

I tried out my new spraygun, an old DeVilbiss gravity fed gun Dave's brother Paul gave me.
The difference between using my previous "best" gun, one I got from Machine Mart and the DeVilbiss is amazing.
There is much more control with the DV, it just works.
When the QDAC has properly cured I will hit it with a few coats of silver MIO like the floorpan.
I'm proper getting into this spraying lark !!

after In the last picture you can see how the camera flash reflected off the mica particles in the MIO.
Makes a lovely job, I think I'll get some black MIO and see whether it's suitable for the semi.

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