How To: Paint Dipping
How To: Paint Dipping
Ok, you need to paint a complex part, and you don't want to rattle can the part due to over spray. Well you have an option available to you.
Stuff needed:
- Bucket big enough to hold the part completely.
- Oil base paint in the color you want.
Step 1:
Fill the bucket with enough water to cover the part with out touching the bottom of the bucket. Then pour the paint in slowly. what do you know paint floats! pour enough in to cover the surface of the water.
Step 2:
hang your part on some thin wire, This will also be used to hang the part to dry, so make it so you can hold the part for dipping and hang drying.
Lower the part into the bucket, since the paint hits the part first, the part is covered before it hits the water, thus water wont mess up the paint or make the part rust.
Step3:
Pull the part out slowly.
Step4:
Hang dry.
You could spend the time to skim the paint back off the water but its cheap compared to the time it would take to salvage it.
Image credit goes to jetboat on rccrawler.com, I just elaborated a little on his brief how to, it works rather well. This is a technic that is used in an industrial setting prior to powder coating.
Stuff needed:
- Bucket big enough to hold the part completely.
- Oil base paint in the color you want.
Step 1:
Fill the bucket with enough water to cover the part with out touching the bottom of the bucket. Then pour the paint in slowly. what do you know paint floats! pour enough in to cover the surface of the water.
Step 2:
hang your part on some thin wire, This will also be used to hang the part to dry, so make it so you can hold the part for dipping and hang drying.
Lower the part into the bucket, since the paint hits the part first, the part is covered before it hits the water, thus water wont mess up the paint or make the part rust.
Step3:
Pull the part out slowly.
Step4:
Hang dry.
You could spend the time to skim the paint back off the water but its cheap compared to the time it would take to salvage it.
Image credit goes to jetboat on rccrawler.com, I just elaborated a little on his brief how to, it works rather well. This is a technic that is used in an industrial setting prior to powder coating.
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wow, thats pretty good. thanks for the tip.
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That's an awesome idea, would cut down time on painting my mom's drive cages a lot!
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Another question. Does the paint make drippy run marks down when you take it out of the water/paint?
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Thats a custom built RC Truck or Car frame dgood!
Bubba, thats one excellent piece of info!
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Yeah, I'm a little leery of this, I'd like to see some close up pictures to make sure that it isn't runny or drippy or anything, because I think the paint would pool up at the bottom end of the part, and that's no good for anything that will be visible.
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I tried it with a bar, didn't get that little bubble on the end like when you dip plastic. I went slow, I mean sllooowww pulling it out, that way the excess runs off as you pull it out.The Black Pumpkin wrote:Another question. Does the paint make drippy run marks down when you take it out of the water/paint?
Like with any other paint technic, I would practice on something first.
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This method will work on plastic as well if the sureface is prepared ahead of time. In most cases, the plastic sufrace only need to be roughed with fine sandpaper.
If you want more of a color selection and some spetacular effects, try the easy techniques found here ... http://www.yoyoing.com/wildjimbo/wjbmi
Of course, apply bubba's water and oil based paint method to avoid any additional prep or finish work.
Bio mentioned paint dipping large metal parts too. http://www.eisenmann.de/EN/download/Dip_Painting.pdf
How to do plastic computer panels ...
http://www.modthebox.com/paintguide.shtml
If you want more of a color selection and some spetacular effects, try the easy techniques found here ... http://www.yoyoing.com/wildjimbo/wjbmi
Of course, apply bubba's water and oil based paint method to avoid any additional prep or finish work.
Bio mentioned paint dipping large metal parts too. http://www.eisenmann.de/EN/download/Dip_Painting.pdf
How to do plastic computer panels ...
http://www.modthebox.com/paintguide.shtml
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Hmmmm... interesting procedure... I might have to try that out sometime as well. My painting skills leave much to be desired
So, how slow is slow when you're lifting the piece out from the paint? To avoid any runniness/marks, I would think that you would have to pull it up verrrrry slowly...
So, how slow is slow when you're lifting the piece out from the paint? To avoid any runniness/marks, I would think that you would have to pull it up verrrrry slowly...
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yeah..i think very very slow like no movements seem to be happentomato wrote:Hmmmm... interesting procedure... I might have to try that out sometime as well. My painting skills leave much to be desired
So, how slow is slow when you're lifting the piece out from the paint? To avoid any runniness/marks, I would think that you would have to pull it up verrrrry slowly...