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jbilling
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Feb 11, 2017

Painting my 93 Dutchmen

I have been a member of this forum for a while now and I have benefited from the good advice and solutions that are shared. Each time I looked at my 1993 class A I was discouraged at the faded paint and cracked peeling decals. I began to research possibly repainting it myself. There was an immediate cloud of negotiate comments on each forum I looked at. Finally on a little known forum for tiny trailers and home built teardrop campers I found sound advise from people who had actually did what I was thinking of. About 2 months ago I bought an airless paint sprayer from Harbor Freight for my grandson to help him with a commercial job he was painting. I watched him paint metal doors for a church and lacquer some heavy wood doors for inside the church. I was very impressed with his skill with the machine and the resulted he achieved. That's when I decided to go for it and the work began. I spent over 80 hours removing the old decals, sanding scrapes and scratches and rebuilding the front door.
  • Here is another picture. My advice to anyone who wants to improve their RV is to become informed but not paralyzed. These units are built by people like ourselves, not by some higher being. We can get great results by spending the time and elbow grease needed to succeed. Thanks to all on this and many other forums who gave me ideas, encouragement, and the right attitude to get er done. Jeff

  • The end result was a very nice looking motorhome that I would be proud to drive. Altogether I spent $950 which includes the 40x14x12 paint booth, the paint, supplies, new rubber moldings andcnew fiberglass inside and outside door facings.

  • I am working on it. The previous post finally has a picture of the m/H before. In this post is one of my grandson painting. The painting is being done on my Harbor Freight airless sprayer in a 40' paint booth built in my back yard. The day we were painting we had winds as high as 30 mph. Inside with our heaters it was fine. We used Sherwin Williams bonding primer and Sherwin Williams 100 series acrylic latex gloss paint.
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    I think it's a rule here that you have to provide pics of any paint job. Could be wrong. :B

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