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Old 03-21-2020, 07:14 AM   #41
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My dad is painting the bus for us, and we planned to start with a gallon and just order more the day of painting if we didn’t have enough... but now with the virus and everyone shutting down, our local paint shop won’t be open the day we plan to paint so we have to decide how much paint to get so we don’t run out.
As far as I can tell, yours is the first mention of "the virus that shall not be named" on this website.

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Old 03-21-2020, 07:51 AM   #42
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As far as I can tell, yours is the first mention of "the virus that shall not be named" on this website.
Did you miss this thread?
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Old 03-21-2020, 09:52 AM   #43
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I did. I did a google search for coronavirus and for covid and came up blank. Hadn't seen anything else.
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Old 03-21-2020, 01:33 PM   #44
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I think, that after you add a hardener, and any thining agent, you will be fine.
Let us kmow.
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MY reply was for Brad.
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Old 03-21-2020, 09:12 PM   #46
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I did. I did a google search for coronavirus and for covid and came up blank. Hadn't seen anything else.
Google probably has not scanned the site in a while. Although, I have done searches using words I KNEW were in a post so I could find the post again and search on this site showed nothing.
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Old 03-23-2020, 09:28 AM   #47
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This isn't just for OP, but for lurkers too. I have a twenty-foot-long four-window shortie that I painted twice.


The first time I painted it, picked up a few gallons of Envirotech DTM paint from an auto shop and sprayed it on, thinning it with water. I used about 1/2 gallon per coat (omitting the top of the roof, which was already white).









I literally had no idea what I was doing, and it was a pretty shitty paint job, but at least the bus wasn't yellow and I was street legal.


I drove it around for 1.5 years or so, and then painted it again--but this time I mixed Rustoleum to get the right color (3 parts blue, 1 part green) and rolled it on. I used about 0.75 - 1.0 gallons per coat. I also added Valspar enamel hardener and mixed it on site with a paint mixer adapter for my drill. Rolling it on worked so much better for me, it was a lot easier, took less time, less tools, and I think it looks pretty good too!






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