painting a wheelchair

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have been able to get ds quicke manual chair at avery good price size is spot on for Riordan to .As he love sthe power chair but are times when its not suitable and the action 3 well thats a nightmare and been keeping eye out for better manual one

Now only thing apart from working out how getting to Norwhich ,a good job his lordship likes the trains ,

is if his lordship objects to it being purple do you know if can respray or paint the frame as anyone else done it before,He has definte preferenc ewhen comes to colours

I've never done a wheelchair, but I have resprayed a pram frame.

I sanded it down to get rid of any paint/rust, covered all the unremoveable bits with newspaper and masking tape and resprayed with metallic spray paint I bought from B&Q. Was a pretty nice job afterwards as well.

yay ty imagine would be pretty much same a spram frame theres no rust just not sure on the purple though its a dark purple so hope 1 no teasing and 2 that ds wont mind as be one less job for me

Dark purple is a great colour, very unisex.

cadbury purple!

lol posted on othe rboard about me and choccy as in its mine all mine

you bad mother you!

hehe im so bad my children had pizza delivered tonight

oooh im jealous!!! ok changed my mind you're obviously a good mother!

If you need to change the colour you could chat to a local car bodyshop. They'll be able to do a really good job and the paint won't flake or chip.

Where is it now?

It's in norwich somewhere am going hopefully SaturdAy to go collect it

Was on eBay and chances one coming up in such small size is rare so was not going to turn my nose up at the colour and since moneys a wee bit tight knew was not going he able afford brand new one a while

Am going to see if my landlord xan help he runs breakdown yard/recovery I'm betting one of the lads must be able to do it *crosses fingers emotions somehow me and paint well lol let's say if painting Walls at home everyone can tell the colour by my hair

& where does it need to be
(travelling from Norwich on Saturday to London & the Portsmouth)

My granddad did my uncle's powerchair. It was yellow to start and he painted it a lovely blue. I think he just used Humbrol or something similar.

RTB, my friend had an action 3 as a loan chair while hers was fixed a few years ago. I thought her current one was heavy until I had to help her get that thing round Alton Towers!

Her local WCS are still refusing her a new chair btw, so learning to drive might have to go on hold til she can get one she can lift on her own :(

And I like purple, I'm dying my hair that colour soon! Your ds might like it when he sees it.

I'm in east Herts but have looked it's quite forward train journey only one change and have friend staying so were make day of it will take dd and ds and his big yellow beast with us
So if anyone sees us or hears me yelling stop or sloe down come say hello
I'm starting new hobby of collecting wheelchairs for ds I think he's going need a room just to store stuff me thinks

but thank you

No problem - maybe we will pass at the station

Wave if see us Katymac we won't be hard to miss

Has she tried caudwell lolipop ? .I was going to get them to fund power chair for d. But we been given from another board a older one but it works a treat

Want to save caudwell as feeling ds might need acc stuff

Has H tried looking on eBay ,not sure what her paticular needs are size and posture wise but am happy to keep eye out for her and adult ones seem cone up more regulary

Ds chair was only £200 plus train on Saturday better than the 1600 that normally costs

RTB, she's trying, but says the forms are like telling your life story! She'll get one, I know that much. Just a case of when! I have no idea about size but she doesn't need specialist seating, just something very light! Will nosy on ebay myself actually :)

hmm if want any help give us a yell ,see if can measure her current chair cusion for lenth and width

oh and check out some new ones on the web so know what style sort H wants wheelchair porn is highly recommened

How did it go?

I didn't see you

We got it and it's great but omg Norwich is hilly from train station thank feck ds has his powerchair because would not want to push up those hills plus super busy as duh had not realised Norwich playing at home

did shout out yesterday occurrd last minute could have met for coffee if you had wanted to

We were there between 1&2

It is a bit hilly & the whole football thing is a nightmare