What have you done to your Wheel Horse today?

[rjg854 12,406]

11 hours ago, MainelyWheelhorse said:

Hopefully it’s plenty of time for the implement paint to set up fully or close to it.

Let it bake in the sun

[MainelyWheelhorse 1,875]

1 hour ago, rjg854 said:

Let it bake in the sun

@rjg854 I pushed it outside in the sun yesterday after I painted it. I would have put it back out if I wasn’t working today. 

[JoeM 8,626]

This pic kind of makes you feel like your sky diving into a wheel horse plant. (or falling off a ladder)

 

Shop looks good Don, mine always looks way better in pics then in person......I think

[Blue Chips 106]

1 hour ago, JoeM said:

Shop looks good Don, mine always looks way better in pics then in person......I think

Ditto here on shop pics. Instead of cleaning up my shop for photo ops, I usually just take close-ups or crop out most of the junk in my shop that I haven't had the time (or energy) to 'organize.'

Edited Wednesday at 01:16 PM by Blue Chips

[Blue Chips 106]

Piece by piece, I'm gradually getting the paint sorted on my GT18. Here are the steps in fixing up one of the foot rests:

 

A fair amount of rust had developed under the rubber mat:

 

I slathered on a thick coat of CitriStrip, wrapped it in a polyethylene sheet, and let it sit for a few hours. About 98% of the paint came right off without any scrubbing or scraping:

 

Here's how it looked after washing off the CitriStrip and removing a few bits of remaining paint:

 

Next, I let the foot rest sit in a phosphoric acid bath for a while, which took care of most of the rust, and then hit any stubborn remaining pockets with my spot blaster.

(Note: I don't use phosphoric acid on high-strength or hardened steel, since I want to avoid hydrogen embrittlement.)

 

I applied the initial coat of self-etching primer, which contains zinc phosphate:

 

Then I filled the pits with 3M High-Bond filler and sanded it flat:

 

Here it is after more primer coats:

 

And after a few coats of paint:

 

Now on to the next one.

[cleat 7,548]

47 minutes ago, Blue Chips said:

Piece by piece, I'm gradually getting the paint sorted on my GT18. Here are the steps in fixing up one of the foot rests:

 

A fair amount of rust had developed under the rubber mat:

 

I slathered on a thick coat of CitriStrip, wrapped it in a polyethylene sheet, and let it sit for a few hours. About 98% of the paint came right off without any scrubbing or scraping:

 

Here's how it looked after washing off the CitriStrip and removing a few bits of remaining paint:

 

Next, I let the foot rest sit in a phosphoric acid bath for a while, which took care of most of the rust, and then hit any stubborn remaining pockets with my spot blaster.

(Note: I don't use phosphoric acid on high-strength or hardened steel, since I want to avoid hydrogen embrittlement.)

 

I applied the initial coat of self-etching primer, which contains zinc phosphate:

 

Then I filled the pits with 3M High-Bond filler and sanded it flat:

 

Here it is after more primer coats:

 

And after a few coats of paint:

 

Now on to the next one.

 

Great job !