Noooooooooooo!
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Superstock
Joined: Feb 2009
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From: Nebraska
Noooooooooooo!
I have been working all weekend on painting my tank. I sanded the hell out of it, and bondo'd the few dings it has. I have never filled dents before, so it took a while. I sanded the **** out of it all day saturday and into today. I primed it, sanded it, primed it, sanded it etc until it looked absolutely perfect. Then I used my BRAND NEW paint gun to paint it. I have never used a paint gun before, so it took a while, but I got 3 good coats on it and was ready for clear. It took all weekend long but it looked good. Until I came into the garage half an hour ago to find it had fallen off it's stool and landed pretty side down on the concrete, and then poured all of it's gas all over my totally finished (except the gas proof part [Irony?]) and completely ruined everything. 
I am not a man for tears, but when I opened that door and saw it's ravaged remains strewn about the floor, I almost cried. Sigh. Take two.
I am not a man for tears, but when I opened that door and saw it's ravaged remains strewn about the floor, I almost cried. Sigh. Take two.
Last edited by maverick; Apr 19, 2009 at 10:38 PM.
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SuperBike
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that sucks man. I had a similar situation happen. I put about 20 hours of work into my ducati monster gastank. Got it perfect. Next day a kid tries to do a burnout on a 4 wheel drive 4wheeler and t bones my bike.
You have experience now though
You have experience now though
jet wrench
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Had a guy... who knew better... walk up and touch my clean pre-paint project, asking if it was ready... I said "yep", and preceded to paint. Three perfect fingerprints caused a total redo!
Paint is like that...
LB
Paint is like that...
LB
Sorry to hear about the wasted paint job - 2nd time's a charm.
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Ahhh, sorry to hear that! Did sort of the same thing with a complete set of bodywork after clearing it. It shouldve been dry, so we moved it onto some towels on the bench to avoid scratching things, then went to move it later and found the @#$@ paper towels were now part of the bodywork 
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Superstock
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thanks guys. i got it repainted. looots of orange peel. but i don't really mind a little texture. it's uniform, you can't tell where the dents used to be and it seems durable. so lesson learned. stool does not equal proper tank holder.
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Man that sucks! I've had crazy stuff happen like that to me a few times over the years.
The worst was when I was doing custom paint and we were doing a 50 Merc custom and the paint was a candy cobalt blue over a gm blue metallic base. The first time I was using someone elses gun and on one of the last couple passes on the passenger rocker panel to finish the job the gun momentarily clogged and shot a glob of crap out ruining the job. After sanding it all back down, as I was shooting it the 2nd time some idiot decided to bang on the door to the booth to tell me I had a phone call and a bunch of overspray dust fell from the ceiling and settled all over the top. hood and trunk. The 3rd time the paint job went perfectly but when we came in the next morning and opened the booth to pull the car out a ******* water beetle had crawled across the hood, up the windshield and got stuck on the roof. After that the owner of the shop said he was going to finish it himself cuz it was way too expensive...lol I refuse to spray candy jobs now.
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The worst was when I was doing custom paint and we were doing a 50 Merc custom and the paint was a candy cobalt blue over a gm blue metallic base. The first time I was using someone elses gun and on one of the last couple passes on the passenger rocker panel to finish the job the gun momentarily clogged and shot a glob of crap out ruining the job. After sanding it all back down, as I was shooting it the 2nd time some idiot decided to bang on the door to the booth to tell me I had a phone call and a bunch of overspray dust fell from the ceiling and settled all over the top. hood and trunk. The 3rd time the paint job went perfectly but when we came in the next morning and opened the booth to pull the car out a ******* water beetle had crawled across the hood, up the windshield and got stuck on the roof. After that the owner of the shop said he was going to finish it himself cuz it was way too expensive...lol I refuse to spray candy jobs now.
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