3RD time's a charm. A local drilling company has covered my truck 3 times now with white rig paint and I'm a block away. First time they said it wasn't them, left it at that, got my hood and driver side repainted because of hail and they got it again. They are 90% of my customer base for my new business so I didn't want to ruffle feathers. Now I've sold my business and actually work for them. They were supposed to stop painting so I being a DUMBASS spent 4-6 hours (drinking mostly) using a clay bar removing the overspray and boy was my truck beautiful on Sunday and then Monday rolls around and after work my truck was white again, I almost cried, no lie. The estimate was $3200 to remove the overspray, sounds steep for a buff job but every black piece of plastic has to be replaced:mirrors, door handles, fender flares, wiper arms, grille, tailgate cap, tailgate handle, rear bumper cover, window trim. Hell even my new wheels have to be cleaned. Im thinkin' red flares, handles, billet grille. We will see what happens. I might just have me a custom speckle paint dmax. HAHAHA. Sorry for being so long but that's the short version.-:t

Wow, thats crazy. Go in the corner an cry for a sec and then hand them the bill. Simple!

Cryin is over, now I'm mad. They did however say they would fix it, but, they haven't saw the estimate yet, I'm sure they're thinkin typical buff and wax $300. They're gonna chit.

Cryin is over, now I'm mad. They did however say they would fix it, but, they haven't saw the estimate yet, I'm sure they're thinkin typical buff and wax $300. They're gonna chit.

Well, let them know what they always say, "if you spray, you gotta pay."

Oh I will for sure, man I wasn't joking about the whole I almost cried thing. Coulda been bud light or sweat but something was tearing out of me. LOL

Wow... what the hell where they spraying? was ur truck being used to block the light or something? I work in a garage and we have painted several cars at a time with a car in the garage then we will have to pull it out buff them clean the windows and take back to the customer. No problem.

Why don't you just have it painted white and be done with it? ):h

Why don't you just have it painted white and be done with it? ):h

:funnypost . They are painting drilling rigs standing in the air so the paint is probably drifting 3-4 blocks in our Oklahoma wind.

Park up wind.:rolleyes:

why the heck would you need to paint a drilling rig lol

why the heck would you need to paint a drilling rig lol
agreed

I'm not a big envirnmentalist (that can't be spelled right) but.. that can't be legal. If it's on your truck it's in your lungs and other places I don't want to know about. How's that third eye doing does it need glasses yet. Get them to fix it AND buy you a cover for your truck and a good mask.

Yeah...and why would you paint it white!?!?!?!?

The company colors. Most drilling rigs are white.

There are refineries not to far from where I live and once in awhile they have upsets with the units where there is over spray of neighbors cars and they are totally responsible and pay for all the damage. How does this company get away it

Well, there are actually two drilling co. side by side and each blames it on the other but Boom, the one that oversprayed mine was painting a derrick and I caught it so I knew it was them. However they did get away with it the first 2 times, they have money and I dont.

My truck goes in to the body shop on the 16th. I'm getting a Stull billet grille, painted flares, painted handles, 06 towing mirrors, and all the overspray cleaned off my truck. I'm flippin excited dude!

[My truck goes in to the body shop on the 16th. I'm getting a Stull billet grille, painted flares, painted handles, 06 towing mirrors, and all the overspray cleaned off my truck. I'm flippin excited dude!]


And I hope it is their nickel paying for it??

oh yeah

Overspray is not illegal, they shouldnt be painting when its so windy though. They are liable though. Like gmc said, buy a cover!

This might sound wierd but have you ever tried goof-off cleaner/remover, from home depot, the stuff is amazing, and does not hurt the paint or most plastics,or wheels,

No I havent but it really seems pointless if its not my dime. The owner of the drilling company did try using pumice Gojo on the flares which cleaned them but didn't remove any overspray.

Overspray is not illegal, they shouldnt be painting when its so windy though. They are liable though. Like gmc said, buy a cover!

Yeah, it's not illegal but you are right, they are liable. And in Oklahoma the wind blows non-stop so we are used to it. As far as the cover goes, we moved to a new shop miles from floating paint lol!

The company colors. Most drilling rigs are white.


NOT OURS...):h
http://www.pwinc.com/images/pic26.jpg

Ha! Sweet baby rig.

Baby Rig???? I think it is pretty big...here are some more pics...
http://www.pwinc.com/images/pic25.jpg
http://www.pwinc.com/images/pic27.jpg

That thing is tiny! Hell the rigs we've been building are small and the derrick is 80-100 ft off the ground.

[Ha! Sweet baby rig

Exactly, I am used to seeing the derrick 100 ft in the air and drilling 7 to 9000 ft in the ground at a time. The rig you show might drill a water well in the area I grew up but even they are bigger than this one.

[Ha! Sweet baby rig

Exactly, I am used to seeing the derrick 100 ft in the air and drilling 7 to 9000 ft in the ground at a time. The rig you show might drill a water well in the area I grew up but even they are bigger than this one.


Took the words right out of my mouth.

[Ha! Sweet baby rig.]
[Took the words right out of my mouth.]

I grew up in the oil patch and as a kid I still remember being able to ride the hook to the top of the rig and look out over the country side. Height never really bothered me but getting up in the crows nest and feeling that darn rig feel like it was swaying in a 20 ft circle made me uneasy but I did it for the thrill then. Glad that I never wanted to stay in the patch and left when I got out of high school and went to welding school and have now done that for almost 43 yrs.But building fire trucks is a great thing to do also.

yeah def not an oil rig....we do environmental and geotechnical drilling...do a lot of gas station work cleaning up spills....I believe at this time we have 26 different rigs...that one is one of four ATV rigs we have...the other 3 are on tracks...