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Cabinet restore? Paint delivery system ?

By Dawson

11 years ago


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#52 11 years ago
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Cheeks is going to sell me his fathom stencils . Gavin could not pull through ... Almost ready to prime ... I've decided to use a graco power shot airless rechargeable ... Saw it at lowes for 150 ... Shelf model ...

Couldnt pull through to meet your deadline... Our stencils are always put through the actual process of a respray before being officially for sale. This eliminates any unforseen errors BEFORE they hit the end user. Registration error was found between cabinet front and sides which has now been addressed. Until we are 100% certain that everything is absolutely correct with our stencils we will not sell them. Unfortunately, we could not meet the April 20th deadline you gave to have this project finished. FATHOM stencils are now available from Flipperescue and we believe they are the best you will ever be able to buy. Good luck with your restoration... FATHOM is a beautiful machine and we will follow your progress with interest.

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#70 10 years ago

Stage one done!!! Stage 2 is the real test for any stencil especially a stencil like FATHOM.. hope you made good note of your registration.
OK.. paint peeling off when stencils removed can be a couple of things.. 1 is that you havent got good adhesion between the coats.. this is particularly prevelant for enamels and a light sand back of the base will help get better grip.
2 is that you sprayed too much paint and " filled" the edge between the stencil and the cabinet.. when you come to pull stencil off there is no determining edge between stencil and layer of paint and so it comes off trying to be one whole sheet.
You can minimise this by pulling off the stencil ALONG an edge and not against it.. same as when you pull masking tape away when painting up to some timber skirting for example.
The stencils have a mid tack adhesive.. it is designed to come away WITHOUT lifting any paint underneath. We have tried every stencil mask on the market and the stuff you have is by far the best and is for ALL types of paint.. BUT.. as with any vinyl stencil.. dont go spraying too heavy. In saying that though FATHOM is a tricky stencil and applying yellow over a deep blue and NOT spraying thickly is not that easy...

.. Looking forward to the next colour.. looks great so far!

#74 10 years ago

Self registration needs to be done BEFORE any stencil is used... lay one over the other exactly edge to edge and push a pin, punch a hole etc where you want the mark to be ( obviously under the siderail).. some people like registration, some dont. Its impossible to please everyone but if its not done already, then it cant be done.
Problem most have with aligning to an edge is that the stencil has sharp corners.. the cabinet doesnt and this allows for a margin of error im afraid, although if you have top edge exact and side edge exact.. stencils will align no problems. I sent you a file of what you should see when you start to apply the 2nd stencil.. i see from the pics you have posted that you are not pulling the backing sheet off completely to apply the stencils... good stuff!!.. By playing around with the top 150mm or so you can easily align and then pull backing off as you go.. the yellow waves are cut in half by the wider blue waves.. get this right and you should be OK. Only real area of precision with FATHOM is the blue checks inside the letters, although the cabinet we worked off to make the stencil had these misaligned and going outside the yellow and so we re-registered them when making the files. When done at factory there wasnt as much care taken to register compared to when we restore.. Its really up to the restorer how maticulous they want to be.. to factory or perfection?

1 week later
#77 10 years ago

Been waiting for the update... thats pretty good registration, the original we made the files from had quite a few of the blue checks outside the green....If you want to be really pedantic then you can mask off the small parts of base blue that are showing

#82 10 years ago

Looks very sweet.. and thankyou for the kind words

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