Painting Interior Parts
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Painting Interior Parts
Has anyone paint/referbished interior parts such as the fiber optics face plate, ash trat door center consol plate? If so how did you prep them and what paint did you use?
Le Mans Master
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From: Sewell NJ
I redid the shift plate and guage console. I used lacquer thinner to remove the existing paint and to clean and degrease the parts. I then used Krylon Satin Black enamel to refinish the pieces. I think the Satin Black gives a better look than the Semi-Gloss which is duller and harder to keep clean. Make sure the parts are dried thoroughly before handling and reassembly and you should be OK. When you paint the shifter plate the easiest way to get the chrome around the edge is to paint the whole thing and when dry take a cloth dampened in lacquer thinner and rub off the paint around the edges to get the reveal you want. It's a little hard to see in this pic but it'll give you an idea of what it looks like.
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I did mine a little differently. First I purchased a new fiber optics faceplate (reproduction). Do not buy these things, they are a poor copy, about 1/2" too long.
Anyway, it got me motivated to repaint the original. First I stripped the old paint off with paint remover/brass brush, then clean, then primer. Before the primer was dry, I used a razor blade to remove the paint from the crome areas. Let the primer completely dry, then painted the whole thing with pasticoat semi-gloss black. Let the black completely dry, then do the razor blade paint removal stuff. It came out looking better than that repo piece.
Anyway, it got me motivated to repaint the original. First I stripped the old paint off with paint remover/brass brush, then clean, then primer. Before the primer was dry, I used a razor blade to remove the paint from the crome areas. Let the primer completely dry, then painted the whole thing with pasticoat semi-gloss black. Let the black completely dry, then do the razor blade paint removal stuff. It came out looking better than that repo piece.
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