Meet Ralph - 1970 ST project

[rich73]

The joy of media blasting when everything works, its up there with jet washing the patio.

2022-12-01_04-04-01 by richard cannings, on Flickr

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[rich73]

Few more bits done this morning.
2022-12-02_02-37-51 by richard cannings, on Flickr

[rich73]

Painting of the parts going well. Couple of coats of epoxy followed by satin black. Found a 2K mipa satin I'm really happy with, mixing at 1:3 rather than 1:2 with hardener is important apparently. Jawel do a 2K 'super matt black' which is as really matt compared this to is but too matt for what I was wanting.

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[rich73]

Bit of a milestone today, finished the media blasting.

2022-12-13_08-27-52 by richard cannings, on Flickr

Just need a bit of a hoover.

Blast nozzle after multiple repairs.

2022-12-13_08-28-22 by richard cannings, on Flickr

[IanM]

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Looks like a good product. Can this be used on aluminium?

[rich73]

Bit of a break but back on the car now.

Hi Ian, the paint can be used on pretty much anything with an epoxy primer. Its amazingly robust as a coating but the main disadvantage is that it contains isocyanate so is quite expensive for the required PPE.

https://www.hse.gov.uk/mvr/bodyshop/isocyanates.htm

I've now got the bumpers and fitted them. Quite a bit of work required but now really happy with them. They join other parts in white epoxy currently sit in front of the wood burner curing.

2023-02-18_08-40-30 by richard cannings, on Flickr

[rich73]

Almost there with the decision of colour choice. Definitely going to go for a 1970 orange which leaves us with Tangerine or signal orange.
I really like the 1970 Meznarie car 0949 which looks like Signal Orange.

Meznari by richard cannings, on Flickr

Plan is to order half a liter of each next week and see if that helps but anyone in has a car on either Orange we could take a look at in the South East I'd be really grateful thanks.

Richard

[DarthMJH]

This looks great. I think it is signal orange. https://youtu.be/J1inzBwgrB8

[IanM]

the paint can be used on pretty much anything with an epoxy primer. Its amazingly robust as a coating but the main disadvantage is that it contains isocyanate so is quite expensive for the required PPE.

Good stuff. Where did you get it from?

[matteo68]

Almost there with the decision of colour choice. Definitely going to go for a 1970 orange which leaves us with Tangerine or signal orange.
I really like the 1970 Meznarie car 0949 which looks like Signal Orange.

Meznari by richard cannings, on Flickr

Plan is to order half a liter of each next week and see if that helps but anyone in has a car on either Orange we could take a look at in the South East I'd be really grateful thanks.

Richard

Hi Rich

Signal’s a really cool colour but I’m a bit biased towards Tangerine as you know

If you want to come and see my Tangerine ‘72 S at Greatworth you’d be more than welcome anytime…

[rich73]

Mike , thanks for that I also learnt what TRE stands for as a bonus!

Ian, the paint was from Autopaints Brighton eBay Store, not listed specifically as the mipa that I used so may be be worth checking that's what's still supplied. Marlow paints have the mipa listed.

Matt, Thanks for the offer we may take you up on that, Ill see how we get on spraying a panel first.

I've ordered 0.5 liters of tangerine but my supplier doesn't have ' recipe' for signal orange. Apparently some of the rarer colours weren't converted to use modern ingredients when lead was phased out. They could do a match to a sample but I thought I'd just get the Tangerine as a starting point.
Just checked the cost of TB15 tyres and they are basically £2K for a set so starting at have a look at possible alternatives.

Richard

[yoda]

Great updates on the project, car is looking fantastic. I don't think you can go wrong with either orange but I think tangerine looks great in pretty much every light condition (see Darren65's beautiful mongrel and the many photos of it on DDK), whereas signal can sometimes look a bit washed out. Historica are restoring a signal orange 2.7 RS if you can get over there. Both fabulous.

[rich73]

Thanks, that's really helpful, I think we may have seen a Karmann Ghia at Great Worth Swap meet a couple of years ago in Signal and wasn't that keen on it under indoor lighting.

Package arrived this morning!

2023-02-22_10-24-16 by richard cannings, on Flickr

[IanM]

^^That looks like the correct shade. Not too orange.
I don't recommend clear coat.

[rich73]

Yes wasn't going to clearcoat, would like to keep things as straightforward as possible.
Really pleased with the finish I've got with the Raptor, spraying with a 2.0 tip gun and its just got a slight texture.

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Might have a day off tomorrow, would like to get some miles on this.
2023-02-23_11-33-48 by richard cannings, on Flickr