Durability of Hammered Paints -- Good

[baysidebob]

It's a Chevy 350. Well, a 357, since it's bored .30 over. Very mild, just a little cam.

The distributor is in the back, where God intended for them to be.

The text in front of the door is either "Cut here for normal T bucket" or "Cut here to reduce fun 50%." I don't remember which was on which side, but it's no longer there, since I took it off in anticipation of repainting the body...about 2 years ago.

This would have been much easier to build, had I had a Shopsmith back then (2001).
mrblanche, yep I noticed it was a chevy engine, it is hard to fool use true Chevy buffs The reason I posted, where is the dist. is because you were asked if it was a 289.
My latest build is a 1978 Chevy Stepside PU. It will have a Merlin Engine 710 CI, completely polished engine. Engine has been dyno ran and putting out 781 HP with 790 Ft/LBS of torque.
Still about a year away before it is done.............Should be a fun ride when finished..........

[mickyd]

It turns out that the first Oldsmobiles were at least partly Dodge, and all of Ford's cars were Dodges.

http://www.allpar.com/corporate/bios/dodge-brothers.html

All of those companies were inter-connected at first.

By the way, the story of woodworking at the Ford company is legendary. Especially the story about his insisting on parts being shipped to him in very specifically-sized crates. Turned out he was using the disassembled crates in his cars! And the scraps were used to start his brother-in-law's busines, Kingsford Charcoal.

Here's a friend's car. He is a fantastic woodworker. You should see the teardrop trailer he built!


Is that thing street legal??? With that short wheelbase and monster motor, I can see why he's got wheelie bars on it!! Beautiful car!!

[mrblanche]

Is that thing street legal??? With that short wheelbase and monster motor, I can see why he's got wheelie bars on it!! Beautiful car!!

Yep, street legal. Washington state, for him. Texas for me.

There is an amazing amount of wood in a Model T, and when you build a Depot Hack, as he has, there is even more.

[reible]

Hi,

I have a cistern pump mounted on a rain collection drum and I have it painted with the hammered "verde" green (not sure that is the color). Anyway I have found that I need to do a bit of respraying every year. Some of the spots are due to parts rubbing while others might be due to the nature of it being in a wet environment.

This pump is from the lee valley people so it might well be a bit different material then the previous one that I had painted a straight rustoleum yellow color which would go for several year before requiring touch ups. The 55 gallon drum is also painted with a stock rustoleum paint and it can go for years without touch ups.

Not very scientific but I'd say the stock regular paint is holding up better then the hammered finish in my case.

This is the only picture I could find (to many pictures to search so this is really the first one I found) that had the pump in it. It wasn't the focal point of the photo but I think you can spot it... save you from have to look up what kind of pump I was talking about and gives you an idea of the color.
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Ed

[mickyd]

Hi,

I have a cistern pump mounted on a rain collection drum and I have it painted with the hammered "verde" green (not sure that is the color). Anyway I have found that I need to do a bit of respraying every year. Some of the spots are due to parts rubbing while others might be due to the nature of it being in a wet environment.
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Ed
Were you a good doobie and prep your base metal correctly? Great shot of the chuck. Looks like a photo for a magazine!! Lastly, think the paint is "Deep Green". Verde has a bit more blue in it.

[reible]

Hi,

The pump came painted so I can not be sure how well they did at that but only a few places have come off down to the casting. Those I clean and prime then repaint. I used a pre-paint cleaner before put the finish on and it sat and dried for about a week before I put it in to use. Most of the paint has stayed on but it has not done as well as the previous pump/paint job.

You were right about the color it is deep green. The drum is spruce green.

Actually the photo was for a layout in the August issue of Chuck and Key magazine... OK maybe it was to show off a previous rust bucket set after a beauty treatment in electrolysis pool and a bit of buffing up after.
Before:
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Ed


Were you a good doobie and prep your base metal correctly? Great shot of the chuck. Looks like a photo for a magazine!! Lastly, think the paint is "Deep Green". Verde has a bit more blue in it.