painting rubber skirt welting?

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Oramac

Hi all, Anyone have any luck painting (base & clear) rubber fender skirt welting? The fender skirts on the 41 i'm doing are a black rubber material, of course a year later they went to non-painted rubber! These have to be the car color (on 41's), on the fender welting which is a flexible coated cloth, i'll use epoxy seal coat, base w/ flex, and clear w/flex which shouldn't be a problem, but the rubber on skirts???????? Any ideas?.C
 
Dont need any flex in the base or clear.

here is my dash. it has a pretty thick vinyl pad on it, with texture. I used sikkens primer with their elasto-activ in the primer to smooth the texture. This is the 2nd dash i did as the first one did not have enough flex agent. It started cracking around defrost vents. 2nd time around i used the maximum of flex agent to primer ratio....no cracks and been done for 3+ years now. Is NOT garage kept either.

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I am not sure, but i believe i could totally do this again with spi epoxy only and it would be OK, as spi epoxy stays flexible.....BUT i am just not 100% sure.
 
Jeremy, the epoxy is the way to go with that stuff. Used to use regular primer and found the epoxy to be way better with next to no shrinkage in the texture.
 
will have to use it next time then. didn't even know of spi back then! Dash was primed twice to completely smooth it out. With about a week in the sun each time. Still see a little bit of shrinkage in it with the right light.
 
I've painted fender weldt several times. Epoxy, base/clear and never an issue. Unless the temperature causes a full tank of fuel to expand even more and run down the paint onto the weldt. It will eat it off. Otherwise you'll be happy.
 
Hay all, Thanks for the tips, although seems like a dye is the only thing I can use for the rubber, anything else will crack off. Brad, this isn't the fender welt which is a cloth/vinyl, its a true rubber material which goes around the fender skirts to seal between the fenders. Thanks again, C
 
SPI epoxy is the toughest and most flexible primer I have ever seen. If anything could do it, the epoxy would be the first choice. I'd be more worried about the basecoat, to tell you the truth. Even with flex, the base will be the weak link. Film builds should be kept minimal.
 
I've done both. Did the true rubber on a Duesey three years ago and it still looks like the day I did it.
 
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