{"id":62,"date":"2009-08-29T20:57:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T04:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/?p=62"},"modified":"2009-08-29T20:57:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T04:57:22","slug":"my-god-it-looks-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/?p=62","title":{"rendered":"“My god. It looks REAL.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today marked another milestone in my own cockpit built from the Series One DIY Cockpit plans.<\/p>\n

The now primer-prepped tub has been assembled and painted!<\/p>\n

Here’s what it looks like before the final color was applied:<\/p>\n

\"Cockpit<\/a><\/p>\n

Because the floor in my shop is so uneven, I had to place it on a table and loosen all the bolts, re-align everything and then re-tighten all the bolts.\u00a0 Never does a day go by when I’m NOT reminded of those incompetent idiots that built my shop. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

On to the painting!<\/p>\n

\"..painting<\/a><\/p>\n

The paint gun I’m using is called a “siphon gun”.\u00a0 It uses a high velocity stream of air across an adjustable height tip to “pull” paint from the paint pot.\u00a0 This particular one is called a “Critter Gun” and is available at Amazon.\u00a0 This is the only paint gun I’ve ever owned that will throw un-thinned latex paint.\u00a0 I have my compressor set to 80 PSI or so and this little thing does a fantastic job.\u00a0 As a bonus, it uses a little 1 pint Mason jar as the paint pot.\u00a0 Changing colors is pretty easy as you never have to wash out the paint pot, just clean the siphon assembly & gasket and change to another color in another Mason jar.\u00a0 Works great.<\/p>\n

\"Side<\/a><\/p>\n

This is what the tub looks like after painting.\u00a0 I’m amazed at how well it turned out!\u00a0 I didn’t do a really great surface prep job before I primed, so the paint looks a little odd.\u00a0 The canopy, windscreen and other upper parts came out much better.\u00a0 Pics of those coming soon!<\/p>\n

\"End<\/a><\/p>\n

The Zinc Chromate Green interior color really gives it that “real cockpit” look.\u00a0 I can’t wait until I’ve got it done and I can actually use it!<\/p>\n

Sunday the 30th I’ll be finishing off painting the upper cockpit parts like the canopy and windscreen.\u00a0 If I’m really lucky, I’ll get final assembly done tomorrow evening.\u00a0 If I do, I’ll update the site with new pictures.<\/p>\n

Thanks for reading folks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today marked another milestone in my own cockpit built from the Series One DIY Cockpit plans. The now primer-prepped tub has been assembled and painted! Here’s what it looks like before the final color was applied: Because the floor in my shop is so uneven, I had to place it on a table and loosen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diycockpit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simpits.org\/geneb\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}