Since everyone else has been doing DT restores I figured it was about time to get started on mine. Although I have to admit my progress is much slower than most on here, what takes some people weeks to do takes me months! But none the less I have completed painting of my signal and wanted to show off the progress thus far and see what everyone thinks. Unfortunately I didn't take any pics of the signal when I purchased it but it was definitely a good candidate for a restore. Horrible brushed on paint job, broken reflector, bent up visors, and a bunch of holes drilled all over the body and bottom end piece. Had it blasted, filled and sanded the holes with JB weld and got on with the priming. I did all the painting myself with inexpensive HVLP spray guns and my 33 gal compressor.
Primed and ready to go.
On with the yellow! I used Rustoleum safety yellow enamel on this signal, which is a little to light colored for a signal in my opinion. To remedy this I mixed in a bottle of Testors model master orange enamel to produce the more signal appropriate color.
And the finished painted body minus visors.
And with the original visors. Thanks to Steve T. for re-rolling these and bringing them back to life!
I still have to clean off all of the reflector frames, and other misc. parts before it all goes back together. But I'm very happy with the results so far, not bad for my first restore paint job. Once all back together I will post some pics of her up and running in the intersection.
Westminster, CA.
