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Thanks for looking, Brav, Tim, smdo.
Yes, I did go with the hammered finish. I think it looks pretty good. A bit of a metallic sheen. It took a whole can to paint the small drawers. I made a run to Home Depot last night and cleaned out the last two cans they had in stock.
I spent most of yesterday drilling out rivets. The drawer part of the guides were riveted with hollow rivets. I had to try to grab the very flat head on the opposite side with a sharp pair of side cutters to keep them from spinning. It wasn't easy one-handed. I sure could have used some help.
Then, sanding 13 drawers, inside and out. I hate sanding drawers. My old Porter Cable 1/4 sheet sander made the work quicker if not louder. Even so, it took 2-3 hours. I had planned to use 180 grit paper, but as it turned out, I didn't have any, so 220 was it. It did a good job slicking down and dulling the original crinkle finish on the box and drawers.
Drawers are in the painting phase. First the bottoms and sides. Then flip them and the fronts and backs and insides. I expect that it will take me most of today to finish painting them. Lots of flipping and drying. The wind is picking up today, making spraying more difficult. The wind screen I put together is helping some. So far, no sags.
I picked up a couple cans of Duplicolor truck bed liner paint yesterday. The plan is to paint the insides of the drawers with that. It dries very fast and is tough as nails, and requires very little surface prep. Plus the benefit of providing a non-skid surface inside the drawers. The drawers have good heavy duty rubber liners, but the tend to scoot and wrinkle up. I may put them back in, depending on if they don't scoot around on the truck bed liner paint.
The enamel hammered finish paint takes so long to fully harden and cure, that I'm sure they would have gotten all scratched and chipped if I used that. Enamel takse months to fully cure so it will resist chipping and scratching.
Yes, I did go with the hammered finish. I think it looks pretty good. A bit of a metallic sheen. It took a whole can to paint the small drawers. I made a run to Home Depot last night and cleaned out the last two cans they had in stock.
I spent most of yesterday drilling out rivets. The drawer part of the guides were riveted with hollow rivets. I had to try to grab the very flat head on the opposite side with a sharp pair of side cutters to keep them from spinning. It wasn't easy one-handed. I sure could have used some help.
Then, sanding 13 drawers, inside and out. I hate sanding drawers. My old Porter Cable 1/4 sheet sander made the work quicker if not louder. Even so, it took 2-3 hours. I had planned to use 180 grit paper, but as it turned out, I didn't have any, so 220 was it. It did a good job slicking down and dulling the original crinkle finish on the box and drawers.
Drawers are in the painting phase. First the bottoms and sides. Then flip them and the fronts and backs and insides. I expect that it will take me most of today to finish painting them. Lots of flipping and drying. The wind is picking up today, making spraying more difficult. The wind screen I put together is helping some. So far, no sags.
I picked up a couple cans of Duplicolor truck bed liner paint yesterday. The plan is to paint the insides of the drawers with that. It dries very fast and is tough as nails, and requires very little surface prep. Plus the benefit of providing a non-skid surface inside the drawers. The drawers have good heavy duty rubber liners, but the tend to scoot and wrinkle up. I may put them back in, depending on if they don't scoot around on the truck bed liner paint.
The enamel hammered finish paint takes so long to fully harden and cure, that I'm sure they would have gotten all scratched and chipped if I used that. Enamel takse months to fully cure so it will resist chipping and scratching.
