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plasti dip first attempt

thanks to our group guys who gave encouragement.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hope on February 15, 2015 at 3:17pm

oh, thanks apple, all upside down, wonderful ,but you get the idea. The pics where right way up here, sorry.

Steve.

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Permalink Reply by JagyPNF on February 15, 2015 at 8:28pm

i picked up a can yesterday how easy was it?

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hope on February 16, 2015 at 3:09pm

"weeding" the surrounding paint was easy, use a tooth pick and go sow. Do not let the plasti-dip dry in the sun, I think that makes "weeding" more difficult. I know this because I tried red on the front grille TOYOTA and then weeding was difficult off the plastic. And the red was not red it was salmon pink. I re-shot the front logo in black

Here: wow, whats up with my upside down pics, sorry guys they are correct when I load them.

I wonder if apple hates me, all my recent downloads are upside down! apologies for that.

I am going to upload these pics to my page, please look there, hopefully they are right way up.:>)

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hope on February 16, 2015 at 3:30pm

Please look at my page for pics right way up, sorry guys, don't know what happened here.

Thanks to the bro's from the Prairie City get together for their encouragement on doing this.

Paul, it is easy and fun and cheap try it. Great easy results.

Steve.

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Permalink Reply by JagyPNF on February 16, 2015 at 8:04pm

im going to try it this weekend.

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Permalink Reply by tsy87 on February 16, 2015 at 9:55pm

Looks great Steve! My only warning is now you will be looking for things to dip!

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Permalink Reply by Daniel Perez on February 17, 2015 at 9:30am

Hey all. This sounds pretty interesting and easy. Is "Plastidip" the brand name to look for or is that what doing this is called?

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Permalink Reply by Yose FJ (David) on February 17, 2015 at 3:31pm

Both a noun and a verb. ;-)

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Permalink Reply by Maximus (Max) on February 17, 2015 at 1:36pm

I've done a lot of dip on my car lol did the wheels, mirrors, handles, bezel, rear bumper, and hood decal in black. Also the gas tank cover and spare wheel, since tire is unusable, in white just to see how it looks. I like the stuff!

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Permalink Reply by Frank L on February 17, 2015 at 2:22pm

I still need to try this. That stuff looks amazing.

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Permalink Reply by Steve Hope on February 17, 2015 at 8:10pm

It really is easy. The stuff adheres to your final surface and is easily "weeded" from surrounding areas. Mask off around the area to be plasti-coated and then spray several coats at 30 min intervals. Wait 4 hours ( +/- ) and peel the masking off and get your toothpicks ready to pick off the overspray.

I used Performix Plasti Dip brand black and Rust-Oleum brand Flexi-Dip Red.

I think the red was not very good, more salmon pink than red so I blacked my front "Toyota" grille, looks fine and very "blacked-out" !!

These spray cans are available at H-D and Lowes about $5 a can.

Steve.

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Permalink Reply by tsy87 on February 18, 2015 at 8:54am

The plasti-dip (the original brand) Red is pretty good, I've used it before on other things (rc cars).

I'm actually in the planning stages of plasti-dipping my miata... I just can't justify paying to have the car painted for more than I bought it for! lol.