Yeah Rex me too. I could no longer grind and scrape bottom paint on my back. I got my boss to finish up the area I was working on.
I sat down on a drill press mount bolted to the floor, to help direct my boss to where I had to leave off.
I could not hold my arms up anymore.
After a few minutes sitting, a blue flash came from some where, and I fould myself face down 5 feet from where I was, with a few skuffs from the floor. For 2 days I felt strange. My heart was acting funny, kinda skipping beats.
back to the topic sorry...
What I did not like about the mask called frisket was several things...
1. Once cut and peeled from the backing it tended to stick before I was ready to stick it down. Adjusting it was a pain... It stretched anytime it stuck as I tried to re place it more or less correctly.
2. You can not draw directly on it, and then with care cut the tape lines if any...
3. Since the drawings are wanted one way on the final job, you have to draw in revese image, and that get tuff when you have to make 2 masks for 3 colors.
(in this case the tank was all white, when the first mask was made, and then once the mask was in place the whole tank was shot Audi white pearl. Which coated the entire tank for a base that would later show thru in stars and both red and white stripes.)
[ This left hi-lites for "Liberty's" face only with no detail]
4. To get the second mask for "Liberty" in place was really tuff... This also had to be made in the reverse, and so getting it lined up any where's near right was wicked.
5. The frisket allowed seepage, and I did not figure out how to stop it very fast... Shoot clear on it first to stop seepage.
6. The frisket left glue, which had to be rubbed off with rubbing alcohol, and I was not happy about that, but it did work.
7. Frisket can cause "POP" in reverse, because it can seal in gas out. It can also create other problems by holding in gases, and reducers trying to leave the pigments.
I would not have known this untill after coming here and getting the help I needed. SO it is only right to tell you guys what little I found out about that stuff....
Maybe on a fast drying water base paint, or sign painters enamel, and paints designed for air brushes the frisket is good?? But for automotive paints, I would not give it much thought as a product to use again anytime in this life time... It added to the time factor greatly, and if I get hit by another bolt of lightning the job won't everget finished..
EZ I can't imagine how you got so close to my bike colors with a different brand of paint, and with out even trying to do so.... Those colors look to be about a perfect match. I am sure that in person, and side by side these would vary, but still that is wicked close the way I see it...... Mac
