We continue to put the finishing touches on ERA 753. Our latest project has been to repaint the letters on our Goodyear Billboard tires. From other postings on this board, I've seen many different approaches to doing this. Here's what we did:
1) We cleaned all of the original paint off the tires with solvent (we used lacquer thinner with gentle rubbing).
2) We outlined the letters with a white tire pen to get crisp edges around the letters (we used a Medium Tip Markal Valve Action Paint Marker).
3) Next we applied 2 coats of slightly thinned Ranger Tire Paint. We used isopropyl alcohol as the thinner. The paint was applied with a 3/16" artist's brush.
4) Finally, we applied 2 more coats of more heavily thinned Ranger Tire Paint. The thinning of the paint for the final coats was such that it flowed out with almost no visible brush strokes.
The following is a picture of the final result:
This entire process took about 8 hours to complete for all 4 tires - quite a bit of time but worth it I think. We are giving the paint a few days to dry and then I'm going to put the Billboards back on the car. I will post some shots of the final result over the weekend.
- Fred
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