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Candy Paint Job Tech: Here’s How To Do Amazing Candy Panel Paint. The Serape Mexican Blanket Paint Job.

Apr 10, 2021MISC, OTHER, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos

Candy Paint Job Tech: Here’s How To Do Amazing Candy Panel Paint. The Serape Mexican Blanket Paint Job.

Custom panel paint, candies, flake, and the like are often found on custom motorcycles, lowriders, and customs, and regardless of whether it is your favorite or not, and regardless of the color and style, everyone stares and appreciates what must have went into painting something like that. The truth about paint jobs like that is the time and effort that goes into them is mostly in the layout and masking of the thing. With so many layers and colors and graphics involved it can often take a hundred times longer to mask it than it takes to spray it. But there is a lot of skill that goes into spraying candies, pearls, and heavy flake. But how exactly does it really happen?

Well lucky for you, Time Warp Custom Paint is going to show us. This is a tutorial if you will and one that you can use to inspire you to get out and paint something yourself. Now I have to think that with a few spray cans and some time you could practice certain elements of this before you ever got into the good stuff, but regardless I think this could be something fun and it makes me want to try it out. I wonder if doing something like this on an old hood would be cool for the inside of the shop. Hmmmmm

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Ever Wonder Just How Strong A Set Of Jackstands Really Is? Watch As They Are Put Through Their Paces In A Giant Hydraulic Press

Mar 30, 2021CRASH & BURN, MISC, TECH, Videos

Ever Wonder Just How Strong A Set Of Jackstands Really Is? Watch As They Are Put Through Their Paces In A Giant Hydraulic Press

We always take jackstands for granted, because they are one of the go to safety items in every garage. When there was a recall on some of them from Harbor Freight last year it was crazy how many people were up in arms. I have lots of Harbor Freight jackstands, but none that fell under the recall, no pun intended. With that said, we all throw a set under the car and climb under without much concern as long as they are sitting flat when we let the jack down on them. And nobody ever thinks about just how much load is on them or how much load they are rated for.

With most weight rated items there is a safety factor. I’ve been told this is 3 times the rating, but I’m not sure if that is true. So just how much will a jackstand hold up compared to its rating? And does the design really matter? Are aluminum stands really strong enough to use with your muscle cars, trucks, etc? Watch this video and you will find out just how strong they really are. And just how catastrophic their failure can be! The destruction ends with a broken window in the hydraulic press room.

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Is Toyota Planning Another Sports Car Collaboration? This Time With Porsche!?

Making Formed Carbon Fiber Parts At Home! This Is Super Cool And We Want To Do It!

Mar 21, 2021OTHER, TECH, Tech Stories, Videos

Making Formed Carbon Fiber Parts At Home! This Is Super Cool And We Want To Do It!

We’ve featured Carbon Fiber fabrication videos from Street Bandito before, but this one is cooler yet. The process for building this small part can totally be replicated for something bigger, and other than the materials there are no special tools you can’t acquire pretty easily. This part is small, more decorative that structural, but ends up really nice and strong and is the first part he ever built himself. I dig it, and this video just makes me want to try it in my own garage. I’ve already been thinking I need an oven for the new shop in case I want to powder coat small parts or something, but this just cements the idea that I need it. An oven, a vacuum pump, and some materials and you are good to go. This is fun looking stuff and with the availability of resins and materials nowadays you can make virtually anything from Carbon Fiber.

What do you think? Would you try this at home?

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Rack Repair: Fixing A Valiant Wagon’s Front Subframe Rail’s Damage

Jul 18, 2020TECH, Videos

Rack Repair: Fixing A Valiant Wagon’s Front Subframe Rail’s Damage

Happiness this year is found in the garage, ain’t it? Yeah…this is where you learn if you are a car builder or just would rather watch one on television. I’m finding that I’m enjoying building something, so long as it isn’t a sketchy piece of early 1980s radical overkill that’s fighting me on every possible turn. I’m also finding that thanks to the typical western Kentucky summertime heat indices, that I’ve got enough swamp ass to be a standing duplicate of the state of Louisiana. Yuck. Such is the way it goes though…either suffer for your craft or give up, get in the air conditioning and get back to your video subscription.

Scotty’s certainly understanding that sentiment with the Valiant wagon that he’s dragging back from the dead. For all intents and purposes a Dodge Dart station wagon that we never got over in the States, it’s a cool ride that deserves to be saved, for sure. But like any neglected and abused A-body Mopar, there’s rot. And we aren’t talking about a little hole or two in the quarters. We’re talking subframe patches from where the RHD steering box was ripping itself out of the rail. Now, if you’re getting ready to line up a comment about how the steering box on a Dart is mounted to the K-frame and not the subframe rail, you’re right…but you are wrong. Aussie cars mounted the box to the subframe, and even though they did a little bit of work to strengthen the area, fifty years of flexing takes a toll eventually.

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