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Tue Aug 16, 2011 8:49 pm

get that bus going!

Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:43 pm

Hi Professor Dread.

I've popped back in to say a big than you for doing this write up. It's been extremely useful resource for me as I also needed to replace my floor and repair the front steps.

I've been picking through it since just before christmas and last night I finally got the primer on.

gone from this:

to this:

If the weather improves I'm hoping to get some top coat on tomorrow.

you've made it a lot less daunting a job.

Thank you :)

Sat Jan 14, 2012 3:43 pm

edit: oops, posted it twice

Sun Jan 15, 2012 9:47 am

Saraj, that looks great. Did you put in a whole full-width pan or patch pieces?

Also, what kind of paint is that? It looks great and really smooth with only a few dust spots.

Sun Jan 15, 2012 11:49 am

thanks Chubber,

It's a complete klassic fab cab floor. The fit was really pretty good.

As for the paint, it's a high build 2k primer. I can check the brand name when i'm in work tomorrow but it's nothing fancy.

I used some etch primer from an aerosol on the bare metal parts first, then 3 coats of the high build.

It's pretty cold here at the moment and we've had frost the past few nights so i was a bit worried about it hardening properly but it had gone off ok when i went back this morning to do the top coat (neptune blue).

Figners crossed that dries and hardens up tonight. We dont have a proper paint booth to bake it unfortunatley.

I've done a build thread on another forum i use but not sure if it's ok to post a link to it on here?