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Your paint jobs always look phenomenal!
What size CFM/HP/GAL/PSI compressor do you use on the HVLP gun? (I know it’s your experience and not the compressor :)
I saw those door’s before painting and the surface is a little grainy, not exactly flat, like the OEM X-doors. Did you have to do any surface preping to smooth it out or left it like it was delivered?
How does it look closer?
Most of the trucks you see being sold without doors had armored doors, which are totally different than X-doors. The armored doors are about 3” thick, with different door closing mechanisms, much larger hinges (an armored door weighs around 150-200lbs or maybe even more from what I could tell...
For sure need to wear a mask and my understanding is that the newer Water Based CARC has about the same toxicity as regular paint?
I used the 2K CARC Spray Cans from Sherwin Williams. It also comes in gallon size, it’s about $275 + $65 for the component B (CARC is a 2 part mix), IIRC the ratio...
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