binfordm715 : Priming, painting progress

Re: Priming, painting progress
Post by brute4c on Jul 2, 2006, 8:51pm

Now I have to envy the Tool Man too.....

Re: Priming, painting progress
Post by k8icu on Jul 2, 2006, 9:08pm

Tim it looks most exellent! What are you going to do for your running lights keep with original or upgrade to the larger ones? I'm just wondering.

Re: Priming, painting progress
Post by fisherman on Jul 2, 2006, 9:22pm

Tim, Looks Killer. Thanks Man I now have an M-715 complete under my belt for painting. Mine will probably be finished next. Unless another member shows up with one? The XL's are awesome, really makes the truck. Oh yes, Tim I believe has a rear power lock. Tim helped out with an M-715 brushguard, custom made. We had a good time and accomplished a lot. Thanks for letting me take it for a spin. I really needed this weekend for inspiration. Fisherman

Re: Priming, painting progress
Post by robertcowan on Jul 2, 2006, 10:25pm

i never really liked the 16" lav tires but there growing on me.
bob

Re: Priming, painting progress
Post by binfordm715 on Jul 2, 2006, 10:35pm

Thanks, all. I keep stopping by the window to look at it. It's just soooo strange to see green! Soon after returning home, I discovered I had already shot my passenger seat back with the 24052, so I did the bottom and it's in the garage drying now. Tomorrow I'll put it in the truck and reinstall the gauge panel in and start working on the windshield.


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I'm going to run the stock lights. In fact, the truck came with plain old trailer lights. I got those off a trailer in Utah.

Re: Priming, painting progress
Post by hiker on Jul 2, 2006, 11:31pm

Wow, What a change!!!! Nice looking.
Robert

Re: Priming, painting progress
Post by jeepistdougiowa on Jul 2, 2006, 11:34pm

Dang Tim...amazing what a little paint will do.


Looking good!

Re: Priming, painting progress
Post by 503m715 on Jul 3, 2006, 1:16pm

Your truck looks good. Seeing it nice and green makes me want to go work on mine.

Re: Priming, painting progress
Post by robsgp on Jul 3, 2006, 8:25pm

Looking sharp Tim (and fisherman)!

Wish I had fraction of your money...er I mean time...uh I mean talent. Yeah talent.

Re: Priming, painting progress
Post by binfordm715 on Jul 3, 2006, 11:28pm

Paint's cheap, Rob! What was especially nice about the painting was that I had someone who knows what he's doing running the paint gun. That Fisherman's an artist! I was walking around it today with a rattle can to hit all the obscure spots that he missed (you know, tucked in behind the tie-downs and such), but there was NOTHING he didn't get! Seriously!

Wait, I take that back. One of the t'case levers was partially covering the other when he painted, so I got to hit that!

What's really funny is how the word has spread in our neighborhood about the paint job! You see, I always used the yellow M715 to haul a fraction of a yard of crushed rock in from our pile to fill in the potholes, a task my neighbor and I attend to routinely. Well, I showed him the green and between him and the next-door neighbor, the whole neighborhood's been coming by to see it. I'd better get finished with the windshield frame.

Today I picked up a 50" piece of 1/2x1/2 .065 square tubing today and will have a machine shop cut a 3/16" groove through it, then get it tacked onto the windshield to hold the canvas top that's due to arrive any day now!

Re: Priming, painting progress
Post by fisherman on Jul 3, 2006, 11:35pm

AAhhh Tim, Time to change your avatar.

Re: Priming, painting progress
Post by binfordm715 on Jul 3, 2006, 11:48pm

I'm waiting to change it after I put my soon-to-be-green windshield on it.

Besides, you need to put up an avatar yourself first!

Re: Priming, painting progress
Post by porkchop on Jul 6, 2006, 9:56am

Nice! I just saw this. Looks great, what numbers are you going with?

Re: Priming, painting progress
Post by binfordm715 on Jul 6, 2006, 10:46am

Thanks, Gunny! I don't know what numbers yet. I'd go with the date I finished Marine Corps boot camp, but alas I'm one of those who never signed up for that adventure!

I am going to apply for a Washington state "Collector Vehicle" license plate, which usually has 4 or 5 numbers on it. I'm thinking of putting those numbers on the hood too.

So, how can I find some examples of genuine USMC M715 numbers? I'd like to get it sort of right (number of digits, realistic hood/bumper markings, etc.)

My late father was in the Corps. Perhaps there's a number associated with his service I could use. He's my official reason for going with a USMC truck. (That and I like the color better and am not too keen on driving around with stars on it!)

Re: Priming, painting progress
Post by porkchop on Jul 6, 2006, 11:00am

Find out what day your dad graduated boot camp and use that, or his birthday. The Marines used 6 numbers during that time period from everything I have read. And we always put the year month day in that order. My numbers are 890825. August 25, 1989 the day I became a Marine. I am sure I told you that before.

Re: Priming, painting progress
Post by thetroublemaster on Jul 6, 2006, 4:56pm

PC, thats my birthday!! 8/25 cool. Tim I just caught up with this thread. Your truck looks great!! You guys did great work. Can't wait to see it in person. Todd, I hope to see you this weekend!

Cheers.. Al..

Re: Priming, painting progress
Post by tacomainoh on Jul 6, 2006, 5:21pm

hey, that's my little brother's birthday too! cool.

Re: Priming, painting progress
Post by socal715 on Jul 6, 2006, 5:25pm

Looks so much better. Congrats on a major step forward man.