[ROVERNET - UK] Painting My Car

[Ali Al-Abbasi]

To follow up on my last comment, I bought a used compressor for very little 
money. I also exploited the option of renting a paint booth.

There is an excellent website called http://autobody101.com that you should 
visit. It has a huge amount of information on blocking, painting and body 
work. From reading the forums, it seems quite common for people to rent.





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ali Al-Abbasi" <alialabbasi at hotmail.com>
To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 11:40 PM
Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Painting My Car


> Roland
>
> I plan on doing the exact same thing with my car and paint it onside. I'm 
> a little concerned that your compressor wont be up to task. As a matter of 
> fact, I'm certain it wont.
> I had a 25 gallon 5 hp (rated, not peak) compressor and have just bought a 
> 60 gallon, 6hp compressor.
>
> All the best
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "roland" <veetwinrider at yahoo.com>
> To: <rovernet at lyris.ccdata.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 11:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [ROVERNET - UK] Painting My Car
>
>
>>
>>
>> --- Ali Al-Abbasi <alialabbasi at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> What kind of primer
>>> do you have on the car?
>>
>> Wish I knew, the body guy charged me alot for it. Said
>> it cost alot. I know he put down a black base and then
>> the grey on top to see the high and low spots. Do not
>> know the brand though.
>>> If it's been taken down to bare metal , you may have
>>> an etch primer on there
>>> that you would need to add another primer on.
>>
>> I was just going to wet sand it and spray it. :-)
>>>
>>> If you have a decent size compressor and a few
>>> hundred dollars to spare, I
>>> would try it.
>>
>> I have a 1hp with a 3 1/2gal tank. Thought I'd do the
>> car in sections. And since I'm doing a two tone, only
>> half the car needs to be done at any given interval.
>>
>> Worse case scenario is that if you
>>> mess it up completely, you
>>> can always take it back and pay a pro to do it
>>> again.
>> That's a good point.
>>> 2)You need a decent HVLP gun with a small tip for
>>> the base coat, clear and a
>>> bigger tip for the 3)primer.
>>
>> A friend has the gun already to loan to me.
>>> 4)You need good ventilation and a mask (else you
>>> could kill yourself)
>>
>> I have a respirator mask, not certain if I can find
>> fume rated cartridges for it though.
>>> 5)You need a filter on the air line to remove
>>> moisture.
>>
>> Yep, will do.
>>> 6)You need to do some research on technique , I
>>> bought a DVD
>>
>> You mean I can't get that from the local j/ds? ;-)
>>> 7)You need to decide on what kind of paint your
>>> going to use and price it up
>>> (stick with a system).
>>
>> Yes, will stick to a quality paint. My friend says
>> alot of the newer paints are my painter friendly.
>>> 8)Prep work is 80% of the job.
>>
>> your 100% right.
>>> 9) Paint is not just poisonous, its also very
>>> flammable.
>> I'm thinking of buying a "portable" tarp garage just
>> for painting purposes outside in the driveway for my
>> paint booth.
>>> I'm sure that there's more that other members can
>>> tell you but these are
>>> some of the things that I've been trying to put
>>> together.
>>>
>>> All the best
>> Thanks Al and to you.
>>
>>      roland
>> DL650
>>  Rover P5
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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