Sup everyone, I was just wondering whats the process for painting metal. I have a grey metal Kicker amp cover and was thinking about repainting it a different color. Looking on whats best in order to make it stand out.
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Is it one of the KX series? If so, we did one at work the other day, pulled off the Kicker badge and the silver mesh, did a light sand on it and used some Krylon paint, looked great.
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Nice rides by the way, those Mercedes have two sets of mids in each door, from the factory??
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Appreciate the response. Yeah its the KX700.5, When you guys pulled of the badging and mesh did you put it back on after painting or did you leave it off? I was thinking of painting it to match the car. Hopefully if it turns out well I will do something creative with the sub.
[ July 09, 2004, 10:37 PM: Message edited by: QC ] |
Yeah the Kicker logo just unscrews, and we hot-glued the mesh back into place, looked great. Painted it red to match the interior of this Yj we did. Nice amp by the way!
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Appreciate it, how hard was it to sand it?
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I actually didn't do it, but I think he just did a light hand sand with some fairly fine sandpaper, maybe 400 grit? Just a little bit to rough up the surface to make the paint stick a bit easier, you may get away without sanding it at all.
[ July 09, 2004, 11:11 PM: Message edited by: JeepBeats ] |
It's nice these days, class D amps and all...
A few years back, I might have posted that you'll need to make sure to use a proper heat resistant paint, to avoid ruining the finish as the amp warms up. ;) |
I was thinking the same thing.
I finished sanding the amp grill, i primed it, waited a couple days and I just put the first coat of blue paint. It looks pretty good so I ordered a grill for my sub and Im going to do the same thing |
Sounds good. [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]
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