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by **busman_49** on Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:32 pm

EdT. wrote:
LarryC39 wrote:Wait till your wife goes Christmas shopping and put them in the kitchen.

Fast forward a couple of weeks, "A Columbus, Ohio man is recovering from injuries sustained in what his wife calls a tragic yet avoidable freak accident. A full recovery is expected once the traffic signal is removed from his colon..."

Thanks for the laugh Ed! My wife and I haven't laughed that hard in a while.
:rotfl:

by **Detroit_Galaxian** on Thu Nov 20, 2008 8:54 pm

busman_49 wrote:no garage

I'm in that boat too. I have a small house that doesn't have a garage. What a pain! The past couple of weeks I've had my first experiences with the run-out-and-quickly-paint-and-run-back-in-and-then-pray-that-it-comes-out-ok game. Ugh!

Ryan K

by **busman_49** on Tue Dec 09, 2008 5:11 pm

Got another question. Since I'm painting a Kentron and they have those lovely flexible visors, will that pose a problem? As in, if I paint them in their unflexed state, and then try to flex them into shape/place, will that crack the paint job?

by **LarryC39** on Tue Dec 09, 2008 10:49 pm

If you use a good primer and thin light coats it will give you some amount of flexability. Primer is the key.

Or, there's a garage probably an hour from you that paints cars and probably has some urethane flex additave they could toss in the paint like for car bumpers, it'd flex good for sure. It's somewhere over by Two Cows R Us.

by **busman_49** on Wed Dec 10, 2008 11:49 am

so what if I use the Fusion paint that supposedly doesn't need primer?

by **EdT.** on Wed Dec 10, 2008 12:12 pm

Ryan, just shoot it with the Fusion paint WITHOUT primer. It'll be fine and unless you're doing some major flexing of the visors, you should be okay.

Larry is spot on with the flex additive suggestion, but I can't see you mixing up some custom paint and then shooting it with a paint gun onto a POLY signal. Not that there's anything wrong with polys, it's just that it seems like a lot of work to subvert one of poly's main benefits.

I've used fusion before on a signal and it worked real nice. Needed a couple of coats though. If you're still worried about the flex, then there's a paint you can get at the auto parts store called bumper paint. It's made for touching up rubber, plastic and fiberglass bumper covers and has the flex additive already. Most of them are black, but I do believe they come in different colors.

But really, use the Fusion.

by **busman_49** on Wed Dec 10, 2008 5:08 pm

Sounds good...

by **LarryC39** on Thu Dec 11, 2008 10:52 pm

I did mine on a hot day but it was RO hunter green over rusty metal primer

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