Woodsplinter
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I'm replacing the tires on my 1983 A2 deuce and while I have them apart I want to clean and paint the rims and lug nuts. My primary dilemma is what color to paint them.
Option 1: Sandblast and powder coat with satin black. Con- they are currently painted to match the truck, Marine Corp. forest green semi-gloss and people that have seen the truck really like the green rims. Pros- the powder coat company has rattle cans of touch-up paint made just for use on powder coated items. This could also be used to paint the front and rear hubs to match the rims. No painting labor on my part!
Option 2: Sandblast and powder coat with green. Cons- the only green available is a close match to the current paint. Hard to tell from a 1" paint chip. (No other samples available to better determine match). No touch up paint available from powder coat co. Would have to try to color match and apply touch up paint with a brush or HVLP sprayer. The hubs would also need to be painted with a color matched paint or they could be rattle canned with black. This would provide a contrast to the rims but I'm not sure how good it would look. The "sheen level" of the green is described as 5% as compared to the satin black which is 20%. This would leave the rims looking flatter than the rest of the truck- big deal? I don't know.
Pros- green would match the rest of the truck better. Minimal painting labor on my part!
Cost of options 1 or 2: $715.00
Option 3: Bead blast everything at a cost of $350.00. Spray them myself with primer and color matched Behr paint. Cost of paint and primer, about $100.00 for a total cost of about $450.00. Cons- lots of back breaking labor on my bad back.
Behr paint is slow to cure but really hard when fully cured.
The tire shop doing all the work won't let my deuce sit in their yard on jack stands for more than about a week.
Pros- the color will match perfectly and be easy to touch up.
I'm leaning hard toward options 1 or 2 because option 3 would have me spending lots of $$ on my chiropractor.
Comments or advice would be greatly appreciated. I've had no experience with powder coating so I don't know how much abuse from the tire guys it will endure before needing touching up.
Option 1: Sandblast and powder coat with satin black. Con- they are currently painted to match the truck, Marine Corp. forest green semi-gloss and people that have seen the truck really like the green rims. Pros- the powder coat company has rattle cans of touch-up paint made just for use on powder coated items. This could also be used to paint the front and rear hubs to match the rims. No painting labor on my part!
Option 2: Sandblast and powder coat with green. Cons- the only green available is a close match to the current paint. Hard to tell from a 1" paint chip. (No other samples available to better determine match). No touch up paint available from powder coat co. Would have to try to color match and apply touch up paint with a brush or HVLP sprayer. The hubs would also need to be painted with a color matched paint or they could be rattle canned with black. This would provide a contrast to the rims but I'm not sure how good it would look. The "sheen level" of the green is described as 5% as compared to the satin black which is 20%. This would leave the rims looking flatter than the rest of the truck- big deal? I don't know.
Pros- green would match the rest of the truck better. Minimal painting labor on my part!
Cost of options 1 or 2: $715.00
Option 3: Bead blast everything at a cost of $350.00. Spray them myself with primer and color matched Behr paint. Cost of paint and primer, about $100.00 for a total cost of about $450.00. Cons- lots of back breaking labor on my bad back.
Behr paint is slow to cure but really hard when fully cured.The tire shop doing all the work won't let my deuce sit in their yard on jack stands for more than about a week.
Pros- the color will match perfectly and be easy to touch up.
I'm leaning hard toward options 1 or 2 because option 3 would have me spending lots of $$ on my chiropractor.
Comments or advice would be greatly appreciated. I've had no experience with powder coating so I don't know how much abuse from the tire guys it will endure before needing touching up.
