What's the worst paint job you ever did

[audio-kraut]

I had build a pair of speakers with dynaudio drivers, MTM config, constraint layer with heavy bracing.

I sprayed on eight coats of paint, each sanded with #400 sandpaper in between - the last coat was perfect, piano gloss, and I left the shop with the feeling of a job well done. Some beautiful speakers.

That night my shop burned down....

[unclejed613]

worst paint job i ever did was my first bass cabinet.... it was actually 2 cabinets bolted together. a sloped front cabinet from a no-name bass amp with an acoustic suspension 12" driver (the driver was a really nice driver, but the cab was cheap and too small. the lower cabinet (which really was too small) was a split cabinet that came from a cheap radio shack "PA-in-a-box" that had a 25W amp that came in this split cabinet with a 12" driver in each half. i got rid of the cheap 12's and put a piece of plywood inside one half to block it off. i then cut out the front for a 15" Jensen driver i got in trade for some gadget or other. i mounted the 15 in the front half, i put 2 bolts up through the top of the box and secured them with rubber cement. then stuffed the box with a mixture of open cell and closed cell foam (did the same with the cab for the 12). i sealed the edges where the halves of the PA box met with weather stripping and secured the halves together. then i mounted the sloped box on top of this and secured it using the bolts. i sealed the back of the sloped cab. before mounting the drivers permanently i spray painted the whole assembly flat black. there was a blue vinyl covering on the bottom cab that didn't take the paint very well, but i painted the whole thing. the plywood on the sloped cab soaked up a lot of paint, and looked horrible as well. after i got the drivers wired and mounted it sounded ok. not great, just ok, but i didn't really care, i had put together a workable bass cabinet, and it looked horrible, but it made the house shake without cone breakup and i was happy....

[454Casull]

Originally posted by MJL21193
Water based paint job...

Was that done with the pour method?

[ewhitaker]

I don't feel too bad about hijacking this dead thread Anyhoo, I have a question about recoat wait time...

I have used a black oil based spray paint about 43 hours ago. The instructions say to wait 48 hours at 70 degrees before recoating. It would be nice to spray the final urethane coat over the paint later today (after 46 hours) due to a tight schedule, project goals etc... Any experience with cheating a couple of hours and how did it come out? It's been about 73-74 where the paint has been drying so maybe the process has accelerated a bit?

[godfrey]

Originally Posted by Cal Weldon

Geez Iain, don't you have a larger picture?

Careful, now - the Andrew will shout at you (and I agree with him).

[jackinnj]

Originally Posted by TerryO

The "worst" paint job I ever did was a metallic blue paint job on my parent's car. Ford had a couple of years where the primer and paint were incompatable and the paint would start peeling off. I had to strip the whole body to the bare metal and start over with good products. It came out OK, but it was the most labor intensive paint job I ever did, and I had foolishly volunteered to do it for the cost of materials.

Live and learn,
TerryO

OMG, deja vu -- i spray painted my mother's 1963 Plymouth "Candy Apple" blue -- but ran out of money before I could finish the job. These were hot colors in the 60's.

I did get that car over 90 mph going downhill to a game at Ohio U. As a parent, i'm happy your kids don't tell you everything they do.

My nephew accidentally tossed a rag soaked with acetone onto the hood of his dad's car (Chevy Monte Carlo) and was lucky enough to live.