Re: Painting Center Console? (dtompsett)
Here is what I have done for interior plastics:
door panels on ford pickups, 3-guage consoles for A1 Rabbits, etc, I sand it down good, smooth or not, and shoot it with a coat of "rock guard". It gives a texture like rubberized undercoating, but dries nice and hard. Then, after that cures, I 'scuff' it with scotch pads and shoot it the color I want. Remember, if there is any flex in the plastic piece, you will want a paint that can also flex. I was mixing my own paint and shooting it from a jam gun, so I mixed in a flex agent. The ford door panels I did (on a friends diesel rig) still look good, and that was done back in '93. So the wear factor or crack/peel/flake factor isnt an issue. And this is a 1 ton work truck that gets ALOT of abuse, put it this way, the guy who owns it is named "cowboy". No S#!t
Here is what I have done for interior plastics:
door panels on ford pickups, 3-guage consoles for A1 Rabbits, etc, I sand it down good, smooth or not, and shoot it with a coat of "rock guard". It gives a texture like rubberized undercoating, but dries nice and hard. Then, after that cures, I 'scuff' it with scotch pads and shoot it the color I want. Remember, if there is any flex in the plastic piece, you will want a paint that can also flex. I was mixing my own paint and shooting it from a jam gun, so I mixed in a flex agent. The ford door panels I did (on a friends diesel rig) still look good, and that was done back in '93. So the wear factor or crack/peel/flake factor isnt an issue. And this is a 1 ton work truck that gets ALOT of abuse, put it this way, the guy who owns it is named "cowboy". No S#!t
