Prepping for paint and first coat of primer.

 Made a temporary "paintbooth" of tarpaulins. It is very small so difficult to get deasent pictures of the result as there is just enough room to walk arount the sofa. This is the first time I'm painting something using a paint gun. The paint gun worked ok. My compressor is small and had to work hard during this job! The preparation before painting could/should have been done better so some touch up body filler work will be required!   

Preparing for paint.

Probably the worst "paintbooth"arrangement ever.

Adjustable ventilation.

Had to buy some stuff. 

Tarpaulins for the booth, Air hose, air dryer/filter pressure regulator unit, new face mask, air connectors and last but not least a paint gun. 

 

And then off course the paint. Two component primer and top coat and some accessories like thinner, mixing cups, paint gun cleaner.The most expensive sofa I have ever owned is coming along...

Pressure regulator installed on the wall and adjusted to two bar, in accordance with paint gun manual.

Starting from basics seaching the internet for how to use mixing cup.

Adjusting the gun. 

Air supply screw on the gun I had fully open as pressure was regulated earlier in the line, paint amount (needle) I just adjusted so it felt like a good amount of paint was coming out of the gun and pattern was adjusted so it was about 15cm wide when gun was about 15-20 cm from the piece of cardboard.

Final mock up to make sure everything fits before starting to prepare the sofa for paint.

All detailes where not ready when I started putting it together so some final fabrication work was needed.

More bead rolling was done to the rear part of back rest to try and imitate backrest of a 65-66 station wagon Dart, same theme as with the beads made earlier. 

Back side primered and ready.

Found a used motorcycle licence plate I liked on a swap meet. The paint has a tendency to peal of so I cleaned the plate and sprayed it with clear coat this will hopefully prevent paint from pealin of further.

  

To install the licence plate a simple bracket for fastening to bumber was made. Its not dented even if it looks like it in the picture!

"Restoring" the bumper

 The rear bumper is in bad shape it is bent and rusty, started with straigtening it in the shop press.

The corners where totally rusted out! Only the crome made it look intact. Cut out the rusty part to have something to weld to. Used 3mm flatbar so I have enough material to grind the shape of the bumber.

One corner welded and grinded.

Same procedure on the other side witch is in worse shape.

Several pieces where needed here.

Roughly grinded in shape

Bumper fastening brackets painted.

Inside of bumper painted black.

Visible side of bumber is grinded down and covered with clear coating. 

An alternative here would have been painting or wrapping witch would have enabled use of bondo to cover remaining imperfections but I will try it like this as I like the fact that repairs can be seen. I can always paint or wrap later if I feel like it.

"Paint booth"

left to dry over night.

Reassembly of fastening brackets.

Fastening of plywood for seat and backrest

Fastening the backrest. 

Started with drilling 9mm holes in the frame. Aimed to get the holes in a straight line and with even spaces inbetween.

Clamped the backrest and drilled 8mm holes true the plywood.

This is the M8 threaded hardware used.

Backrest installed.

The plywood is covered with mold protective coat of "saunasuoja" with brown pigment.

Next up for backrest and seat is upholstery.

Trim

 Starting point.

Tried to straighten and hammer out the dents in the trim. Sanded down i three steps, first 240 grit paper then 1000 grit and last with 2400 grit paper.

 Finished of by Pollishing.

Still looks quite bad but at least its shiny!

 

More work on the back side of the sofa.

I made a tool to "counter sink" screw heads with. 

A 5mm hole is drilled in the sheet metal witch is same as the steering pin on the tool. Sheet metal is placed on the tool and the you hit the counter piece with a heavy hammer. 

The result is not perfect. The raised part is a bit shallow. I might do some more adjustments before final assembly.