sixdogs
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- Joined
- Dec 8, 2007
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- Ohio
- Tractor
- Kubota M7040, Kubota MX5100, Deere 790 TLB, Farmall Super C
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Here's my way to touch up the paint after the grinding and addition of bucket hooks. These are on a Kubota and I had a shop weld them on for me. The welds look way better in person, without paint and no 5X magnification.
Since I like a support plate welded to the bucket and then the hook welded to that, I try to find a way to put the plate to leave "shadow lines" that make it easier to do the touch up. Here are some before pics.
I had the plate made to go almost to one edge of the Kubota support and then almost to the bottom. The "almost" is to leave a space to weld to and a line for the tape when I paint. The small overgrinds I touch up with a small paintbrush so as have zero overspray.
Here's how I put some of the tape and this is when I was removing it.
Something you don't want is a line like this where you can see where the paint line is. It's OK but I wish it wasn't there. Look below.
Below is where I touched up an overgrind by using a small brush and some paint sprayed in the cap of the spray can. You touch up after done spraying and just a minimum to make things look acceptable. It will fade in just fine.
Anyway, in two weeks when it's all dusty and the sun has evened things out, it all will blend 99% and people will think it came from the factory that way. It looks like it belongs. Hope this helps.
Beats me why this looks this way and why down here but it's a good example of a brush touch up of an overgrind. The sun and shade makes it look way more obvious than it is..
Here's my way to touch up the paint after the grinding and addition of bucket hooks. These are on a Kubota and I had a shop weld them on for me. The welds look way better in person, without paint and no 5X magnification.
Since I like a support plate welded to the bucket and then the hook welded to that, I try to find a way to put the plate to leave "shadow lines" that make it easier to do the touch up. Here are some before pics.
I had the plate made to go almost to one edge of the Kubota support and then almost to the bottom. The "almost" is to leave a space to weld to and a line for the tape when I paint. The small overgrinds I touch up with a small paintbrush so as have zero overspray.
Here's how I put some of the tape and this is when I was removing it.
Something you don't want is a line like this where you can see where the paint line is. It's OK but I wish it wasn't there. Look below.
Below is where I touched up an overgrind by using a small brush and some paint sprayed in the cap of the spray can. You touch up after done spraying and just a minimum to make things look acceptable. It will fade in just fine.
Anyway, in two weeks when it's all dusty and the sun has evened things out, it all will blend 99% and people will think it came from the factory that way. It looks like it belongs. Hope this helps.
Beats me why this looks this way and why down here but it's a good example of a brush touch up of an overgrind. The sun and shade makes it look way more obvious than it is..
