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#99569 Mon Oct 20 2003 08:15 PM
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I just got the globe done, and finished this damn pump! It was only to take me 14 hours, and I was on track until I blew up my air compressor sand blasting, then the paint would not mix right, and the tempture got weird on me, and one thing after another - and then finding a globe! 3 months that thing was in my way - errrrr... But now it is done, and I can start on my original 1926 Model T roadster pickup truck....

The globe I bought from a guy on ebay - THANKS TO ALL FOR LOOKING FOR ME and letting me know where they are - I paid about 200 bucks for the white crown repo with a light stand to use for my other globes - and masked it off with blue masking tape, set it on a lit box and sprayed it red, looks great on that pump I must say! Then I added a flasher for the globe bulb and it looks ahhhhhhhh flashing that globe at night... GREAT HELPERS U R!!!!


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P.S.

This was a spray can job - like all my pump painting jobs - I sandblasted it clean, filler primer, wet sanded, and sprayed with cans under 600 watts of light. Used blue masking tape to tape the lines...

Easy - then buffed to a gloss shine...

The model T I will use a spray gun on - need to get one of those and learn how to use it, I hear black paint is very hard to do...


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AWESOME, Travis! Love those 80's. What brand of paint did you use? Post pics of the "T" too, ok?
Rod


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me likes , Me likes. nicely done.
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Neat work Travis,The globe looks like it was always red.Rex

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Nice pump and globe, Travis. You can be proud.
You asked about black paint being difficult. Actually black is not hard to work with at all. A lot easier than metallics. In pre-WWII days, black was commonly applied to cars with a brush. Black is tougher in a couple of other respects though. It tends to show every little wave and ripple in your body work more than most other colors. It tends to show swirl marks from buffing more than most other colors.
Don't get me started on the difficulty matching the "almost black" colors on many late model cars.

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That looks great Travis. Great job on the globe also. Some time ask Dick Bennett about his tricks painting those crown globes.

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