fulltimin
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Good news and not so good news.
2 x 3's are now down another $.50 a piece to $5.48. Not great, but a little better, as I need to get a few.
This is probably not good.....
![[image]](https://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/notgood.jpg)
If you want to do something, you will find a way.
If you don't, you will find an excuse.
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Good judgement comes from experience.
A lot of experience, comes from bad judgement.
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joerg68
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Whatever happened ... get well soon!
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stripit
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Oh My, that looks like a delay in production is coming your way? Hope that is not as serious as it looks.
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LouLawrence
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Looks like the old days when I was flying radio control airplanes as a hobby. Every time the basement looked like that the wife was really pissed that she was taking me to the hospital (somehow it was usually around dinner time). I hope it was not that serious!
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nohurry
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Pshh! “It’s only a flesh wound!”
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fulltimin
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Thanks for the words of encouragement. I did NOT cut off any thing. Not even a flesh wound. Sure looks like it though.
This amounted to another round of user error. Not with tools and hurting myself, but I noticed after using one of these ......
![[image]](https://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/bloodlike.jpg)
... that by NOT pressing FULLY on top of the spray trigger, that red paint was dripping all over the floor, while I was trying to spray paint something.
I took a look at my index finger, now covered in paint, saw the floor, and my first thought was, "that does not look good". To me, it looked like I had cut off something I was born with, and blood was spurting everywhere!
Fortunately, that was not the case. That also brings me to what was going on when this occurred.
Painting, with Plasti Dip.
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fulltimin
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First off, just like Por 15, I have no affiliation with this outfit, make no money from them, and so on.
I stumbled onto this on YouTube, (where else)?
I did not know this was "A Thing". It is indeed "A Thing", though. What, you ask?
Well, people have been using this paint, which is kind of a rubber-ized paint, and paint their cars to change the color, and later will peel the paint off, and repaint with a different color. They are known as "Dip Heads". Yes, you read that right. Dip Heads. Lol.
This stuff seems to stick very well to a variety of different substrates, including ones that are rusted, which is how I stumbled on to it in the first place.
As such, I pulled out a piece of rusty steel and proceeded to "test it out". (No shock there)!
That is how I ended up "bloody-ing up the floor, with the red paint.
Here are a FEW of their colors, that I am playing around with.
![[image]](https://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/plastidip.jpg)
Evidently, as long as the rusty surface is dry, and free of loose material, this will stick.
It is not meant as a permanent repair, as is Por 15, but it evidently will last several years, in order to buy some time, until you can get to work on your project.
No, I am not looking to extending my project for a few years. This is actually meant for another vehicle of mine, not the motor home, so don't panic.
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fulltimin
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Ever have one of those weeks where every mole hill turned into a mountain? Yeah, me neither....... Lol....
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fulltimin
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Here are a couple of pics of black Plasti Dip spayed on rusty steel. The black section has been sanded to remove most of the rust and make a smooth surface.
This is just how it comes out of the can, without much shine.
![[image]](https://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/plastidipblack.jpg)
This section was sanded the same way, then sprayed at the same time, but the "Glossifier" was added over top of the black, which makes it a little more shiny.
![[image]](https://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/plastidipblack2.jpg)
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fulltimin
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I also sprayed some blue on a piece of plywood. There are probably about 5 or 6 coats on this... (the plywood was cold... pun intended).
Anyhow, after it cured several days, I wanted to see how it stuck to the plywood, and I must say, it was stuck pretty well. It took a lot of effort to pull it off.
Here is step one....
![[image]](https://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/plastidipblue.jpg)
As you can see in the second pic, it stretched quite a bit and not a huge amount had been pulled away from the plywood at this point.
Yeah, it was stuck very well.
![[image]](https://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/plastidipblue2.jpg)
Yeah, somewhere along the line, I think I see some of this in my future, although not necessarily blue! Wahoo!
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