Thanks for the compliments, fellas. And Kevin, that's my usual line to anybody who tells me the truck looks great. I tell them it's my 60' truck- from 60' it looks real nice. But the closer you get, the more flaws you can see. (Had this happen twice yesterday when I drove it to the hardware store. It has a long way to go before I get it back to it's former glory, but I've got a house and shop to build before that gets done.
Phil, that's a great idea! I'll get out there this morning and try that. Hopefully the spin to the store and storage unit (which is all white gravel) yesterday didn't coat the adhesive on those 'extra material spots' to the point of now not sticking. Thanks, that didn't even occur to me.
Evan, I absolutely concur with the idea of covering the edges of the decals! I even thought about ordering some of the edge sealer from LMC, especially after the decals that I put on the front hood emblem a few years ago have started curling in on the red pin strip sections now. But, like I said, I trust the paint, which had lasted the 8 years I've had it without much fading and no peeling or cracking, so I'm still going to paint it asap. The way my luck goes, that might be when I dismantle the truck to "do it right", after my shop building is done. Per the clear coat, since it's (supposedly) flat black paint that I shot it with, the clear coat would look a little off on that section. I'm still a little miffed that the Rustoleum flat black that came from the quart cans is more of a satin instead of flat. I've painted it with rustoleum flat black rattle cans twice in those 8 years, when needed, and it always dried flat. I even tried a test spot on the inside of the tail gate after the paint dried, spraying the rattle can paint over a small spot to see what happened. The spray can dried flat, as always. But 2 weeks after I shot the qt cans, it's still shining. Which is a shame, because the one thing I like about the really flat black is it tends to cover up mistakes. The satin look shows everywhere my cheap Graco gun left picket fence marks from it's pulsing problem. (No speed or volume controls on the bottom of the line gun I bought.) Thanks again everybody! Lee
