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In my search to buy more of this green powder coat, I came across this web site that lists other powder coat numbers that I believe will match the standard military vehicle colors: See here under their "Stock Combat" grade: http://www.hentzen.com/index.php/products/coating_type/stock_powders/...

I saw another fellow on here who had painted all the metal (uprights, legs etc) black. I liked the look do I decided to paint my bolts black. It's just rattle can but looks good. On the down. side I didn't realize that the tolerances were so tight on the fat bolt attaching the legs to the...

I finally wised up about where to put the plasti dip on the two non-load bearing posts for the headache rack. I thought to myself: "Self, well the top of them should be level, regardless of the length." 22 1/8" down from the top. Bingo. That's again 2" strips

Just in Ace Hardware, looks like I could have avoided the black Plasti Dip and had a much more closely matched color! Oh well, what's done is done and it won't be seen anyway.

I decided to go ahead an invest the time in putting the plasti-dip spray on all the up rights. For the troop seats I covered 2" from the bottom and 1" below the center "collar" - or whatever that bracket welded to the center is called - most importantly including the underneath side because...

And thanks everyone for your compliments!

Fed 34094 Green So far that original 5 lb bag has powder coated all 10 bow corners, all the troop seat hardware, a license plate mount, and a few other misc brackets and parts and I still have that much left. A crooked place in Ogden, UT tried to tell me to powder coat the troop seat hardware...

Thank you very much. I most certainly will. At the moment I'm experimenting on with some spray on plasti dip to help protect the nicely powder coated uprights once in the deuce bed slots. Only testing on one upright at the moment. (It shouldn't be visible if I don't like it.) Maybe the...

Finally the day came to actually paint this big wood working project. As a one man show with a single 3" roller it took me about 1 hour to do a surface or edge. Worked out perfect for the paint drying time. Two surface coats, one on the edge, flip the wood over and repeat. Took me about 5 and...

Another of my brothers introduced me to Alex Shepherd, owner and operator of Cache Valley Coating. Great guy. He finished up the sand blasting of the troop seat legs and powder coated everything. (Color number: Fed 34094 Green) I had a hard time deciding whether or not to refinish them too -...

In the mean time one of my brother hooked me up with the industrial sand blaster at his work. Took care of all 10 uprights. The thing was way cool, used little graphite beads. As a payback , I helped him acquire and unload his new MEP-701. ;^D

Then came the long process of sanding that I started with a belt sander (40 grit) and a very poor hand electric sander. I spent about an hour on each board to get the paint off. After the initial roughest sanding I finally invested in a Dynabrade pneumatic sander like I have used before. Was...

Title of this thread is typical of most of my undertakings - the long way of doing things. I think I fuss to much over the details when it really doesn't matter, won't be noticed, or could have done it a simpler way but I just didn't know any better! I was going to wait to post all this once I...