Painting rubber bits

[nb6179505]

I was reading panorama and saw that whiteout 930, everything was white! The accordians, the bumper strips, the surrounds on the mirrors

Question. How would someone go about painting the rubber and which application would be best?

Out of pure curiousity!

This quarantine time is giving me ideas, albeit not always good ideas



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[7783911]

damn quarantine is giving us all sorts of time to do projects that we might not do otherwise...gets expensive when your bored

[75 911s]

IMHO it doesn't look good from anything closer than 10 yards.

It also sucks performance wise as no weight is lost.

To get that white-out look go to SCRS or IROC fiberglass bumpers. Just hang your stock ones on the wall.

You can lose a lot of weight moving to Euro crush tubes instead of your impact hydrualic bumper shocks. You can also lose weight on the bumpers - looks wise search "ultimate modified bumpers" thread.

[Lyle O]

There is really no good way to "paint" elastomeric materials. The very nature of them means the substrate is constantly moving (or could be), and you would need to fill in the new "exposed" part every time it stretched. Also, the coating particles would need to adhere only to the substrate, not to themselves, because it would produce unpredictable tear patterns when stretched. Therefore, the only real solution is colored elastomers (TPE would be the logical choice). Most likely the accordions on our impact bumper cars are TPE, colored black (using dye in the compound before molding, essentially). Choosing a white or other color compound for these type of body parts is pretty straight forward. Other rubber, however (like body seals) is more challenging because the rubber chemistry needed for sealing performance is different (more demanding), and thermosetting elastomers (typically EPDM) are used. They must be black because they include carbon black in the compound for stabilization against UV exposure and aging. And, as mentioned above, painting them is not realistic. Aren't you glad you asked?

[AG81]

Originally Posted by 7783911

...gets expensive when your bored

^
It does.....