Gravitex Plus

[Burdekin]

Well I have painted the whole underside of my mini with gravitex and will be over coating it in body colour shortly.

How's it look? Any chance of posting a pic?

 

[langy]

Finished the epoxy mastic layer (apart from areas around the axle where I can't get to at the moment) and tiger sealing of the painting on my Volvo Amazon estate but still dithering in typical me style over if I should paint the whole underneath with Gravitex or just the arches. What is the general consensus? The car won't see winter roads, isn't a daily drive but I want it to be hard wearing but still look the part and am overpainting with body colour 2k.

If anyone is interested I posted the painting over on the projects section of the forum.

Cheers,

Mitch

I would do the whole underside.

I done this recently with Gravitex


Epoxy primed first




2 coats of gravitex





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[Burdekin]

Thanks again and thanks for the pics, looks really good. I’ll crack on and use the gravitex all over.

 

[richie00boy]

Is that using the gravitex gun, a schutz gun or a big tip spraygun?

 

[Burdekin]

This is the gun I bought for the job; http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130748876192?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
Says on the Gravitex bottle that for orange peel use this type of gun and for smooth use a 2.5mm gravity (I think it is) fed gun. I'll go for the orange peel look so at least that way you know it has anti-stonechip applied as I thought if going for a smooth look and it doesn't turn out very good it will just look like a very bad spray job.

 

[langy]

Is that using the gravitex gun, a schutz gun or a big tip spraygun?

I just use a stonechip gun, works perfectly, don't get too close with it though

 

[langy]

This is the gun I bought for the job; http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/130748876192?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
Says on the Gravitex bottle that for orange peel use this type of gun and for smooth use a 2.5mm gravity (I think it is) fed gun. I'll go for the orange peel look so at least that way you know it has anti-stonechip applied as I thought if going for a smooth look and it doesn't turn out very good it will just look like a very bad spray job.

I use the same gun.

 

[Burdekin]

I use the same gun.

Excellent, I should be all set.

Rolled the car back over last night and sealed the joints in and around the rear arches which I couldn't get to before and letting them dry. Won't be able to work on the car tonight, but will be free tomorrow night to epoxymastic the arches and then hopefully make a start on the gravitex on Friday night or Saturday morning, so pretty excited as will be able to start putting the car back together.

 

[Burdekin]

Painted the gravitex on tonight, topcoat in the morning. Thanks again for the help and advice, certainly made it easier to work out what was needed and I'm happy with my first effort of spraying the stuff.

 

[langy]

Congratulations on a good first job

 

[Burdekin]

Cheers and thanks for the advice along the way...

Topcoat went on this morning, does't seem to be any issue touch wood...

 

[Flapdisk]

Sorry if I appear stupid but this sort of stuff is new to me, Why do you need to top coat it, it says it's waterproof and an anti corrosion coating?

 

[Burdekin]

Sorry if I appear stupid but this sort of stuff is new to me, Why do you need to top coat it, it says it's waterproof and an anti corrosion coating?

You don't have to but a 2k topcoat is hard so less chance of a stonechip getting to metal, the 2k is body colour so a wide range of colour choices and the 2k is gloss so should be easier to keep clean and keeping the muck off. But you could just leave it as Gravitex as the topcoat if you wanted.

 

[Flapdisk]

Ahh! that all makes sense mate, thank you.

 

[langy]

Sorry if I appear stupid but this sort of stuff is new to me, Why do you need to top coat it, it says it's waterproof and an anti corrosion coating?

Usually to colour it

 

[Flapdisk]

Thanks Langy

 

[veesix]

Can Gravitex be sprayed directly over PU sealer (Sikaflex), or do I need to prime the Sikaflex first?

 

[Burdekin]

My experience is only what I wrote on here so hopefully others will come along and let you know either way if I'm wrong. The Gravitex is very smelly so must have a lot of solvents in it I would think so I would say it's a good idea to prime over any PU sealer first.