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Flinkly:

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--- Quote from: Veinman on April 20, 2005, 10:15:01 am ---Did you do all this while the cabinet was still in pieces?

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Sorry, I missed this question. The cabinet was painted just as it looks in the picture.

-S

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I'm guessing you did some serious masking work if you sprayed it while assembled. ;D

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what would he need to mask off?  it doesn't have anything in it like a monitor that could get overspray on it...

Stingray:

--- Quote from: Flinkly on April 20, 2005, 12:24:21 pm ---i think contact paper is a little too little.  as for the hvlp gun and air compressor, for a one job thing, it's too much.  you might inquire at your local hardware stores and see if you can rent equipment.  then you wouldn't be out so much money when you got done.  if you did it this route, i'd do the primer with a roller, then sand, and then maybe even i coat of black and then sand.  then get the sprayer for the last one or two coats, so you don't pay so much to have the sprayer because you've done two or three days of spraying already.

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Unless you want to sand the crap out of it, I'd recommend spraying everything for a nice finish. This is particularly true if you're going with black paint. Gloss black will highlight every tiny flaw that there is under the paint.

And regarding masking, I did cover up the back door opening and draped a couple sheets of masking paper over the monitor mounting area and let it hang down in front of the coin door opening. This was just to keep overspray out of the inside so the job would be a little neater. I don't think that qualifies as "serious masking" though. It took about five minutes and I used about four six foot lengths of 18 inch masking paper.

-S

rdagger:
I bought a cheap HVLP paint sprayer for the inside areas on my cab.

MrSaLTy:
Compressors that can be used for painting have to have a pretty hi CFM rating to keep up with the sprayer.  These are usually fairly expensive.  Most air attachments have a rating that tells you what the CFM rating is. You need a compressor that can provide that to 'keep up'.

IntruderAlert:
M3talhead did a nice job with vinyl from Parts Express



Lot's of pics in his topic over here:
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,32169.0.html

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