Painting the box 6.1Cuft

[ThomasG 5,000+ posts]

Im painting this box a glossy black. I put on 2/3 of a quart of primer on today. Then the sun started to go down, so tomorrow i got a little bit of primer left 5 black cans of lacqer and a clear coat to put on.

This box has a shit load of screws on it due to all the bracing

and its the same on the other side.

Ill try and get a shot of the bracing tomorrow.

Here it is with 2/3 of the primer on

I can already see my reflection a little bit.

Stay tune for more pics tomorrow.

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[blackbonnie 5,000+ posts]

im staying tuned, whats it gonna house?

 

[ThomasG 5,000+ posts]

a JBLW15 GTI //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif

And BTW here is a design picture of the box, those who are interested

 

[SHiZNiLTi 10+ year member]

I see sanding sealer primer in the 2nd pic form the top. That stuff takes a while for it to cure enough to sand. Well it did when I used it. I also used the entire yellow container of it on a 5 cuft box.

 

[ThomasG 5,000+ posts]

Yea im using the entire container as well

 

[ThomasG 5,000+ posts]

I see sanding sealer primer in the 2nd pic form the top. That stuff takes a while for it to cure enough to sand. Well it did when I used it. I also used the entire yellow container of it on a 5 cuft box.

haha wow your actually the guy who im going off of lol.. Didnt notice it till now. I went and bought everthing you listed

http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2877772&postcount=16

from your post ^^^

 

[SHiZNiLTi 10+ year member]

haha wow your actually the guy who im going off of lol.. Didnt notice it till now. I went and bought everthing you listed
http://www.caraudio.com/forum/showpost.php?p=2877772&postcount=16

from your post ^^^

Cool. Let me know at what steps your at. Also in my sig I have some info. The sanding sealer takes a long tiem to cure like 2-3 days before it will sand correctly. If you try sanding it and you see and feel it ball up under the sand paper that means it isnt cured enough yet. After mine cured for 3 days I sanded it and it came off in a white powder.

Hopefully you get the same result that I did...

 

[ThomasG 5,000+ posts]

Hopefully mine doesnt take that long. Im going to be leaving it out in the blazing sun so hopefully that speeds things up

 

[SHiZNiLTi 10+ year member]

Ya leaving it in the sun will help big time. It was pretty cold outside when I did mine and it was inside the garage.

 

[mlstrass 5,000+ posts]

That's going to be a LOT of work, so be prepared to spend some time on it. Will be worth the effort though if done right.

Using an electric sander I assume?

 

[ThomasG 5,000+ posts]

Here it is so far.. Still got 1/3 of a quart of gloss to put on tomorrow

 

[Wkbdkid 10+ year member]

From the last pic i take it that you havent sanded yet? You dry or wet sand?

 

[ThomasG 5,000+ posts]

From the last pic i take it that you havent sanded yet? You dry or wet sand?

dry

 

[SHiZNiLTi 10+ year member]

Hows it coming?

 

[PV Audio 5,000+ posts]

You need to dry sand multiple times to get a glossy enough finish to put your top coat on. It really does take a long time.