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Offline RTQ

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Steel apartment doors
« on: February 03, 2008, 08:06:31 PM »
Icky doors:


Sanded and washed:


DTM primer:


fresh paint:
« Last Edit: February 04, 2008, 03:30:55 PM by RTQ »

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Re: Steel apartment doors
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2008, 08:19:53 PM »
Don't know why some of the pictures don't show up??

Finished door, reinstalled:
IMG]http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/bigwheelspins/IMG_0911.jpg[/IMG]

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Re: Steel apartment doors
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2008, 08:21:33 PM »
Try again. Finished door:

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Re: Steel apartment doors
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2008, 09:21:59 PM »
looks good. :) I find that new Krylon Fusion spray paint works well for painting weather strip that has been slopped with paint by previous painters. that would make the job look that much better.

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Re: Steel apartment doors
« Reply #4 on: February 03, 2008, 10:12:00 PM »
Great job. Doesn't even look like the same doors. Allmost look new.

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Re: Steel apartment doors
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2008, 11:44:54 PM »
Great Job RTQ!!  What type of spray rig... airless or HVLP?.... and what finish paint... inquiring minds want to know...  ;D
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Re: Steel apartment doors
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2008, 10:36:20 AM »
Agreed, those doors look great.

RTQ -

Just fyi for the future, the pics that didn't show up are missing a "[" character at the beginning of each link.

so this is what I see for each dead link:
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IMG]http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/bigwheelspins/IMG_0911.jpg[/IMG]
and this is what it should look like:
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[IMG]http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j223/bigwheelspins/IMG_0911.jpg[/IMG]
see that missing "[" character at the beginning of the first example?  If you were to edit those posts and add that "[" character in the appropriate places, your pics would appear in place of the lines of code.

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Re: Steel apartment doors
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2008, 03:56:15 PM »
Thank for the help Jared. Adding the little bracket fixed things right up.  I would have never thought of using spray paint on weather stripping; I'll have to file that one away as I'm sure it will come in handy on some future jobsite.  I usually remove the weatherstripping when painting a door jamb, but sometimes it is glued in there and you just have to be careful. Careful doesn't seem to be in the vocabulary of some "tradesmen", I use the term loosely.  I used an airless rig on this project. A Graco 390 with a 415tip for the primer and a 440i with a 415tip for the paint which was an acrylic enamel.

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Re: Steel apartment doors
« Reply #8 on: February 12, 2008, 08:49:38 PM »
how did you fix the rust on the bottom, bondo? or is that why that pretty shiny new kickplate is there? nice job, they look good
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