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Good morning;

Thanks again for checking in and following along.

The bodywork is done!

I am sooooo excited, with the bodywork done I can finish the frame. With this weekend being a long weekend, for me at least, I wanted to blast out ( sandblasting pun intended) the frame. Friday I stripped the frame of all the piece that could be removed. My son gave me a hand and we got the frame mounted to the rotisserie.
Saturday was a 12 hour marathon. There was still some welding that needed to be done, underside stuff I was waiting to get done on the rotisserie. Once done welding, I went over it with a grinder making things as pretty as possible. That took me to about 2PM, then I moved into the sand blasting bay to clean it up for paint. After that it was off to the paint booth for 3 coats of paint.
By the time I got home it was after 9 PM. I am sitting here having breakfast and trying to get my back to loosen up a little. I need/want to get back to the shop to get all the unbolted parts organized, blasted and painted too. I am struggling with motivation at the moment…
The frame paint I used is an industrial epoxy from a company called “Hempel”. It is very reasonable cost wise, the 1 gallon was under 100.00 which compared to the U-Tech product is less than 1/2 the cost. The shop prefers the U-tech for body parts but likes the Hempel for frames. I like the finish as it looks, to me anyways, to be a satin. It has a gloss, but not a high shine and I think it looks factory applied. Coverage it really nice as well, sticks where you put it and doesn’t want to run.

That is all for now,
If I can get up the energy to get going, I will post again later. I am going to get going, I am too excited to be moving this forward to quit now. Besides the shop is deserted so I don’t have to compete for tools or compressed air.

Stay safe,
Steve