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It's BIG, Yellow and digs holes! JCB 3CX Project 8 is joining the Tractor Shed
Pete W.:
I hope that you won't think this input too far off topic but it does refer to cleaning stuff of metal panels.
I house some of my workshop 'bits & pieces' in a steel cupboard with adjustable shelves. The cupboard originally served in an electronics factory and was used to store soldering flux. In configuring the cupboard for my use, I rejected a shelf on which liquid flux had been spilt. There's a sticky patch of mostly dried 'stuff'.
I now need to use that shelf to replace another shelf that got bent. It was in another cupboard that rests on the workshop floor and I inadvertently leaned on it while attempting to get up from a kneeling position. A casualty of anno domini!!! I don't have the panel beating skills required to 'unstretch' the front flange!
I was told, years ago, that all fluxes are either toxic or carcinogenic so I've had the polluted shelf in quarantine for a few years now.
I did wonder whether a domestic steam wallpaper remover might deal with the problem. Or maybe just hot soapy water?
Any helpful advice will be welcomed.
awemawson:
Pete, personally I'd scrape as much off as possible while dry and wash the affected area with boiling water. I doubt that the quantity is sufficient to be too worried by it.
Alternatively - don the Hazmet suit, and build a Chernobyl style containment sarcophagus :clap:
awemawson:
I didn't think that I'd get much done today - it's my birthday and apparently you have to do 'special things' on birthdays :scratch: So we went round Newhaven Fort which was quite interesting. Apparently the last troops billeted there were Ukrainians in the late 1940's helping us with UXB bomb disposal. Rather ironic in the current situation.
Anyway we got back in time for me to be able to rub down the engine cover panels with very fine emery paper, blow it off and spray the first coat of top coat JCB Yellow RAL 1007. Let's hope I don't have to strip THIS one off !
Doesn't look to bad for a first coat - it can sit for a bit before the next one.
To resolve the paint gun setting dilemma I gradually worked up in thinners dilution until I got a decent result - this being 75 ml of thinners in 400 ml of paint. As I mentioned I've ordered a 'viscosity cup' and not wanting to use my iPhone to time it with painty hands, and having a vague recollection of having had a 'school lab timer' I went searching and sure enough there it was it a cupboard. A bit like an old fashioned alarm clock - genuine clock work, with an arm to start and stop it and one to reset it. A bit rusty but fully working. So this saves searching eBay :clap:
Anyway have a picture of the engine cover panels in their first coat:
hermetic:
Happy Birthday Andrew! What paint system are you using, acrylic, machinery enamel tractol etc etc? I go by the rule of thumb taught to me many moons ago, mix to the consistency of creamy milk, then stand back and let it have it! Looking good, when you have big flat areas on a panel try to get the biggest area of flat horizontal, much less risk of runs! I used to be rather expert at runs, The guy who taught me the above used to say, " I see you've got the curtains up, swags an all"
Happy daze!
Phil
tom osselton:
Happy Birthday Andrew have a great day!
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