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Looks good frank... which paint and color are you using?



It's Ace Hardware's Rust Stop and the color I got is International Blue. I went down there because I read somewhere that they could color match. I wanted a good "Ford Blue" and this one seemed a good match and was one of the pre-made colors.

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My question is, how much paint will I need to do my 86 1/2ton Ram?



I bought 1 gallon for my 1997 F-150 and I may end up using half of it or maybe two thirds. I'm not painting the bed because it has a Line-X spray-in bedliner. The gallon of Ace's Rust Stop was $18.99

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frank1380 , what Polishing compound are you using? and what orbiter?



The orbital polisher I bought is the Porter-Cable 7424. It was the budget blower as it cost me upwards of $150. I'm sure you can get a less expensive one. The polishing compound I bought is the SSR2.5 made by Poorboy's World. But I may end up getting the SSR1 to finish it as it still has some scratch marks in it. I bought the polisher and the compound from Autogeek.net. They also have a couple of good tutorial videos for polishing that I found very helpful.

I'm still updating my little page with the progress on the rest of the truck.

http://www.knology.net/~guywithalaserbeam/paint.html