Now you have. We painted the indoor stack tonite. I started it at 5:30 and finsihed at midnight.
When I started it was just the rough pipe with rough welds, stickers and surface rust from sitting in the other shop for a few weeks.
I started by roughly grinding the welds down with a grinding wheel. the switched to an 80 grit flap disc to smooth everything out. I then got out the wire wheel and went over every inch of the stack with it removing all surface rust and other contaminents. Then went over the entire thing twice with Simple green.
Then layed down a 30x20 piece of used bunker plastic on the shop floor, braced the stack up with a step ladder and a fancy little jig I fabbed up, cracked the big door open, started up the vent fans and started painting.
The paint I used was Dupli-color Metalcast. I put on 4 coats of the metal base to try to even everything out as best I could. Then Added the first coat of green, but found out I was going to be short on green and couldnt do my full 3 coats. But I had two cans of blue, so we tested that out on a scrap piece and though the color looked good mixed. i added another coat of green and then a coat of blue.
Its rated for 500* so well see how it holds up, its only one pull.
It a pretty unique eye catching color as if the stack itself wasnt already. But I feel adding the blue over the green helped tone it down some. I call the color "Dieselholic Green" Its actually similar to BASFs ocean blue in a way as the color shifts from blue to green depending on the lighting.
Here is a pic.
When I started it was just the rough pipe with rough welds, stickers and surface rust from sitting in the other shop for a few weeks.
I started by roughly grinding the welds down with a grinding wheel. the switched to an 80 grit flap disc to smooth everything out. I then got out the wire wheel and went over every inch of the stack with it removing all surface rust and other contaminents. Then went over the entire thing twice with Simple green.
Then layed down a 30x20 piece of used bunker plastic on the shop floor, braced the stack up with a step ladder and a fancy little jig I fabbed up, cracked the big door open, started up the vent fans and started painting.
The paint I used was Dupli-color Metalcast. I put on 4 coats of the metal base to try to even everything out as best I could. Then Added the first coat of green, but found out I was going to be short on green and couldnt do my full 3 coats. But I had two cans of blue, so we tested that out on a scrap piece and though the color looked good mixed. i added another coat of green and then a coat of blue.
Its rated for 500* so well see how it holds up, its only one pull.
It a pretty unique eye catching color as if the stack itself wasnt already. But I feel adding the blue over the green helped tone it down some. I call the color "Dieselholic Green" Its actually similar to BASFs ocean blue in a way as the color shifts from blue to green depending on the lighting.
Here is a pic.
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