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mookaloid

posted on 1/2/12 at 10:18 PM Reply With Quote
Plasti Dip

Plasti dip - I thought it was just for the handles on pliers

Dipped MG





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rdodger

posted on 1/2/12 at 10:35 PM Reply With Quote
Shame it's so expensive or it would be good for the underside of my grp bodywork.
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MakeEverything

posted on 1/2/12 at 11:16 PM Reply With Quote
What are the advantages? Never heard of it before!





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RK

posted on 2/2/12 at 12:01 AM Reply With Quote
For one, you can peel it off anytime you might change your mind.
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Autosri

posted on 2/2/12 at 12:55 AM Reply With Quote
briliant stuff i have painted my wheels on my tintop and its lasted a year without pealing off at all and its dead easy to spray almost impossible to mess up
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afj

posted on 2/2/12 at 09:07 AM Reply With Quote
thumbs up from me did my chrome CXR centre caps in it can peel it off when i want, you can also buy tins of it. I dipped my r/c rock crawler servos and reciever in it , now they are water proof tested so deep you could not see the car





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chrisxr2

posted on 2/2/12 at 10:32 AM Reply With Quote
Nice

I am liking that a lot, seems really easy as well.





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loggyboy

posted on 2/2/12 at 10:56 AM Reply With Quote
Might do my Clio in that....
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40inches

posted on 7/2/12 at 08:52 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by rdodger
Shame it's so expensive or it would be good for the underside of my grp bodywork.


According to the guy who did the MG, it cost around £150 for the whole car. He got the cans directly from Plasti Dip. Linky






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ceebmoj

posted on 19/4/12 at 11:05 AM Reply With Quote
hi,

I have one wheel done on my car to see how it lasts with out primmer.

I have also done the roll bar in primmer and dip because I found the previous coating was getting chipped. So I will let you know how it lasts. My current plan is if it wheres well to do the other exposed metal work.

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theduck

posted on 19/4/12 at 12:12 PM Reply With Quote
This is a TEMPORARY covering, it wont wear well, but what it does do is allow you to make temporary changes or add protective coverings.
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ceebmoj

posted on 19/4/12 at 12:32 PM Reply With Quote
The wheel has been done for 6 weeks / 1500 miles and is holding up much better than expected.

I'm hoping that with the dip primmer the roll bar will last better as before after a couple of hundrad miles it had a lot of gravel rash.

[Edited on 19/4/12 by ceebmoj]

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Peteff

posted on 19/4/12 at 12:41 PM Reply With Quote
I had to watch a video of it being peeled off as well, it looks like fun stuff.





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D Beddows

posted on 19/4/12 at 01:02 PM Reply With Quote
I've decided I'm actually going to 'respray' my MX5 with this stuff, I have a cheapo HVLP spray pod thingy (£30 - the internet seems to suggest that something this rubbish will actually do for this particular job.....we shall see....) £34 for 2.5 litres of Plasti Dip and £15 for a can of thinners. The car doesn't do that many miles so out and out durability isn't all that important (nor is a flash paint job as far as I'm concerned rather obviously!) and it seems to be fairly foolproof...... again we shall see.... lol

The beauty of it though is that if it does go horribly wrong it all just peels off and I'm down a mere £50ish rather than stuck with a car with a comedy paint job! - mind you the paintwork is so bad at the moment that pretty much anything would be an improvement!!

I'll keep you informed

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