QC

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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iTrader: (19)

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??

QC

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 ]

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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!

QC

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 ]

geolemon

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.

QC

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

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Sounds good. [img]graemlins/thumb.gif[/img]