Cleaning outside of machine

Ok Did a search and didnt find anything. I have a Graco 3900 that looks like its been to (expletive) and back. Due to a couple inside the trailer "oopses" such as leaving a full can of paint in the machine and "going a short distance" have now left me with probably half an inch of caked on paint in spots on the machine and the rest of it looking a mess. What the heck do I do with this?

Procut1, 2 of my machines have had the trailer oops too many times to count. If they run well, don't worry about it. If you must get it off, try this; An air chisel. Just be careful. It knocks the paint off the frame in short order. IMO it's too much BS. I'd just leave them be.

I feel the same way. Dont care how it looks as long as it works. But honestly, Ive had a change of heart when it comes to image. Now that the majority of my business is large commercial work and thousands of people see us everyday, Im embarrassed by the looks of some of my stuff. Take a sealcoat tank thats covered in sealer. Now, thats not a strange occurrence. MOST sealcoat tanks, you cant tell what color they originally were. But then I will see guys who's tanks are spotless, painted, lettered and that flat out just looks better and I like it. So piece by piece, we;re cleaning and painting with an image change as our goal.

One winter spent hours on end cleaning our old 3500 right down to the air fins on the cyl head. Completely disassembled, heated, scraped and painted all componets. It looked new, till first time out and a big oops. Never again! We try to be carefull but our two year old AL machine looks about the same. A paint machine is supposed to have paint on it.

I agree on the sealer tanks. We have tried to keep ours clean. The stripers, well like Milt said, never again. I really use to try really hard to keep mine clean. I just gave up after a while. It runs, bearings are greased, cables are in good condition, oil is fresh, guns & hoses in good shape, the heck with the way it looks. Bottom line is that it does a stand up job were proud to call ours.

Secure your machine using fixed 'shoe slots' in the trailer floor... or other methods. Dedicate your machine to 1 paint color if possible. Don't let just any clumsy fool add additional paint to your machine. Bungee strap your paint lid down to the bucket with a polyethylene garbage bag wrapped around the pick-up and prime hoses and extended out around the edges of the paint lid (thin semi-clear bags that don't melt). Also, Spray machine with non-stick "pam" cooking spray until you get lazy and forget. 'Machine stays like new for weeks or years until the unavoidable perfect storm of a week when nothing goes right or is done correctly and every bump, curve and speed bump spills more paint from your machine which was holding a full 5+ gallons of paint due to fact you couldn't squeeze enough existing paint out of the machine to finish a couple more stall lines on the last job. Now your trailer and machine(s) are covered in paint, but it's not any one's fault because Larry thought Moe secured the stripers, Curly thought Larry had strapped the lids down, and nobody gave a thought to those speed bumps.

Walmart has a very good aerosol paint striper that I used on a very very dirty machine. It will take off at least one layer or paint at a time. I think the cost was around $7.00 per can.

I painted my machines and the liner all black...i call them my black lightnings...Just sprayed them down with some left over black paint I had.

My machines are WORKING machines, not on static display, and they look like working machines. Unless I get a new one, then it looks like I don't do any work for a few weeks

Put a 15 gallon hopper on your machine. With the lid on it's near impossible to slosh paint out, without turning the machine over. Most of my messes come from my small LL3000's bouncing around with blue paint and concrete stain in them. They're just too light.,,,plus they ride on the rear of the trailer/

we just chip the big stuff off, a paint machine is gonna get paint on it as for our sealrigs we just paint them with sealer once a year and they look pretty good

I like using Chlorinated Rubber traffic paint because it dries fast and has a 'no track' time which is hard to rival, plus I don't like to switch back and forth between different types of oil based paints, but I doesn't seem to have enough gloss when painting covered parking areas or curbing. Its flat sheen doesn't shed dirt and abrasives, and it attracts stains. Regardless of the type of paint, is there anything you can do to impart a little more gloss into a paint product? -- Is there anything you can add to the paint to 'tweak' the chemistry and make a paint more glossy?

Spray or roll the lines with a clear glossy sealer. It will add gloss and Prevent the line from attracting dirt. You can go the inexpensive route and just use an off the shelf big box store concrete sealer or on the other end a $100 a gallon water based urethane. The sealer goes a long way. The downside is that the dry time however may be a few hours.

$100.00 a gallon?

When we first start striping we only used, chlorinated and always had the same problem, it retains a lot of dirt, we tried the sealer on top of it and I worked, then we find out gorilla paint and it work real good, its pricie but is good paint, now we are using modified acrylic and same results as the gorilla without the big price tag.

Actually Rock I rounded up a little. $89.00 per gallon. Serwin Williams. Armorseal Rexthane Floor Coating. Clear

Markings #1 wrote on May 4, 2010:Go to #12

I like using Chlorinated Rubber traffic paint because it dries fast and has a 'no track' time which is hard to rival, plus I don't like to switch back and forth between different types of oil based paints, but I doesn't seem to have enough gloss when painting covered parking areas or curbing. Its flat sheen doesn't shed dirt and abrasives, and it attracts stains. Regardless of the type of paint, is there anything you can do to impart a little more gloss into a paint product? -- Is there anything you can add to the paint to 'tweak' the chemistry and make a paint more glossy?

Is there any chemical(s) you can add to the paint?

We use a hot water pressure washer at end of season.....and mid-season if there is time. It works pretty well and keeps the machines looking/working good. Image is important!

Yes image is important. Spray a little WD40 on the machine each time before you take it out. any spills will wash off. or if it is a dedicated machine paint the machine the same color that is in it.

ware-ever wrote on May 9, 2010:Go to #16

Actually Rock I rounded up a little. $89.00 per gallon. Serwin Williams. Armorseal Rexthane Floor Coating. Clear

I bet it has gone up to that $100 a gal by now.