From: "Lee Daniels, daniels@tamu.edu" <DANIELS@alchem.chem.tamu.edu>
Reply-To: DANIELS@TAMU.EDU
Subject: RE: floor paint
>My local paint supplier tells me that I shouldn't even bother,
>because the tires will tend to pull up the paint.
He's only partly right - I just used regular Sherwin-Williams deck paint,
but the real trick is (just like painting a car) in the surface
preparation. I wrote a longer description of the whole process for the
british-cars list a year or so ago - if anyone's interested send me a note
and I'll forward a copy to you. The gist of it is: 1. every speck of oil
and grease removed. 2. Preparing the surface with an HCl solution.
On my cheap job there are only a couple of quarter-sized spots where the
tires pulled it up; the benefits of having the rest of the floor painted
are well worth it. The epoxies are supposedly *much* better. The Grassroots
Motorsports articles describe the process for them very well.
-Lee D.
Lee M. Daniels Laboratory for Molecular Structure and Bonding Texas A&M
daniels@tamu.edu (409) 845-3726 Fax (409) 845-9351
'74 TR6 '77 MGB
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