Looks great, I have some doors that need the same project done soon.I picked up a set of pretty ugly but otherwise sound half doors a couple months ago for $200. These are the two photos from the Facebook Marketplace ad:
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test fit at the seller's house:
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The project proceeded in two sections:
First was exterior paint. The sheet metal was in nearly perfect condition & no rust so it was a good canvass to start with. When I removed the weather stripping I did find a patch of rust about 4 inches long & ½ an inch wide on the interior metal at the bottom though it didn’t extend to the exterior skin. I grinded it down, soaked it in rust reforming gel then painted it. At the end of the entire job before affixing the interior panels I fluid filmed inside the panel (opposite side of where I grinded the rust) to be sure that was good. Not too concerned, these doors will never see H2O except when I wash it, I’ll wheel it through water with my cloth half doors.
Second was repairing and painting the interior plastic panels, one had a large-ish hole on the top & the other had a two inch long crack & they were filthy as hell but otherwise in good shape.
Over the course of a couple weeks I stripped, repaired, prepped, & painted everything.
For the doors I picked up factory flame red paint from automotivetouchup.com & for the interior I went with factory slate gray flexible coating from SEM.
Here’s the tale in pictures:
First I removed the interior panels and hinges then stripped the paint off with some 80 grit sandpaper:
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This is the rust spot midway through remediation:
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Got hungry & baked a loaf of Italian bread, came out real nice:
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By the time I was ready for paint it was too cold out so I needed an alternative, but where to find a stable, wind free, 70 degree spot to paint everything? It occurred to me my wife wouldn’t object to using the family room because she’s objecting to her new husband’s shenanigans somewhere else , so I built a makeshift paint booth in the family room & hung those fuckers from the ceiling all proper like – side story, the hooks I hung them from hold the chains that my chin up bar hangs from in my prehistoric home gym:
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This bar has been in continuous use since 1978 when my dad got me a 120lb weight set from K-Mart for my 12th birthday, anyone remember those, $20 all in for the set including bench. I started using it then & never stopped. The plastic covered concrete weights & old bench are long, long gone, but the weight bar itself has remained in continuous use & transitioned to my chin up bar in the early 90’s when I bought my first house & hung it from the ceiling in the basement for my gym. Since then it has moved to my new house where it first hung in my shed for about 10 years, got tired of walking all the way out there to work out so I moved it into the garage for a few more years then also grew tired of working out out there & moved it inside & hung it where you see it in 2011, probably about 10 minutes after the ex-wife packed her shit & rolled. That fucker has history & has now figured into my TJ project.
Anyway I had a pretty good system down for painting, I’ve got an enormous whole house fan upstairs so for each coat I’d open the windows to the family room, spray a coat on then turn the fan on for 10 minutes sucking all the nastiness out, worked pretty good for all 16 coats :O
Did 2 coats of gray primer, 4 red primer, 5 basecoat & 5 clear coat.
Just before beginning this project I wrapped up a home improvement project, re-did both my kid’s rooms turning my son’s room into a yoga studio for Kimberly & my daughter’s room into a legitimate guest room. The mattress in these photos was her old one I was tossing & figured I’d position it under the doors in case somehow one fell I’d avoid catastrophe. Though in all likelihood if one fell it would’ve just bounced off the mattress & catapulted into my shin on its way to crashing on the tile floor so who’s kidding who. Nevertheless it remained.
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The finished product:
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I once painted engine components in a walk in shower at an apartment I had once. Rebuilt the engine in the living room.