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I will not paint the midget as separate pieces. I will finsh the bodywork and then do the most judicious taping and masking job known to mankind to prevent any overspray on the stuff that I want protected. I will not paint in my basement as I kept thinking I might. I just can't risk the fallout from that . I will build me some sort of booth out of plastic outside. been looking and talking to people about how to do it. I actually have this big camping screen house that my inlaws gave us years ago and that I know we will never use. I was thinking of using that and then covering the screen with tarps. My dad has this big squirrel cage exhaust fan that I can use. I have already bought a HVLP gun and need to learn to use it. I think this might work.
 
Lots of plastic paint drops and duct tape.
 
Yep, I have always been pretty good a getting the metal straightend out, its the final bodywork and painting that are more tedious. Did I show you guys my last project? I had a nice little 95 Kia sportage until one week before Christmas 2005 when my wife rolled it in the snow and it looked like this.
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It ended up looking like this when I was done. The homemade roof rack with the expanded metal covered up the imperfect roof that was still off a bit.
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I put more effort in my cars than they are worth, but its still cheaper than new.
 
Vis-queen is CHEAP and large furnace filters block the intake side well. Your choice of "air handlers" to move the air. I'd put an additional filter on the intake of the air mover too, just in case of particulate build-up.
 
This was done sectionally, outdoors:
 
Yeah, you know I have at least two square box fans that I bet a cheap furnace filter would just fit on. Use those two to input air and that squirrel cage fan drawing air out. I think I like that idea. Would want to keep the pressure a bit positive inside not to draw dust.
 
Now that looks good. I thought of white, it doesn't show up bad bodywork as easy as a dark color, but then I found that yellow. I have only painted cars with acrylic enamel in the past, but I talked to people about the basecoat/clearcoat and they all swear that it is easier. They say that since the basecoat dries flat it is more like spraying primer or flat paint is harder to get a run that regular paint and can be sanded down and resprayed easier if you mess up, and then when you clear, if you do get a run you can just sand it down and spray more clear over it and no one will ever know. At least that is the word on the street. We will see how it goes.
 
And this:
 
This is as it came out of the gun. Not rubbed yet.
 
And I saw it done with Miss Agatha. Had a run and made it go away with a bit of sanding and compounding before clearcoating. The guys told me it was easy to repair as well with the clear coat on it.
 
U'm no fan of clear coat. The B here is all single-stage. The "secret" (if there is such a thing) is blow the colour on at a high pressure with a gravity gun. This was done at 45 P.S.I. and I'm more than pleased with the outcome.

Two-stage is just another way to get more of your money, IMO.
 
I'm a die hard do it yourselfer. So I hope to do this thing this summer some time. Got to heal up first and hope nothing more important comes along. I'm tired of
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working on the house. I raised the roof to allow head room in 2003, in 2004 I added two dormers to the house and in 2005 I finished out the rooms up there and added a green metal roof to the house. In 2006 I bricked the basement that had been bare cinder block since I built the house in 1994. Now its time for useless junk like my spridget /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif In this picture you can see the archways I built over each garage door and the bare metal stripped little midget hiding inside /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif
 
I like single stage because I find it much easier to correct chips/scratches. I've never been very good at blending clearcoat when doing touch-ups.
 
Nice looking brick work.
 
DrEntropy said:
U'm no fan of clear coat. The B here is all single-stage. The "secret" (if there is such a thing) is blow the colour on at a high pressure with a gravity gun. This was done at 45 P.S.I. and I'm more than pleased with the outcome.

Two-stage is just another way to get more of your money, IMO.
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Well, I have done spent the money on the 2 stage system. Besides I got to see how it works. I'm also thinking of doing the balck stripe at the bottom out of plain enamel. I forget who but someone on here told me about touching up scratches being easier that way and you know that will happen on the rockers. Oh, and you can see the one door that I could not fix on the Kia in that pic. I need a new door but it drives ok, so the heck with it.
 
KIA door is ~munched~...

ain't no "fixin'" that!
 
jlaird said:
Nice looking brick work.
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Thanks Jack, I enjoyed doing the bricks (4500) but toward the end my right shoulder started hurting and that is when I went to the doc and found out that I have a bone spur and need surgery to fix it and that is what is going to happen after my knee heals enough so I can walk on it. I am falling apart. I hope that while my shoulder heels that my knee will have more time to heal also before going back to work. I must learn to take it easy, the midget helps and also the little sailboat.
 
DrEntropy said:
KIA door is ~munched~...

ain't no "fixin'" that!
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Sure is and both front door windows are plexiglass and don't go down /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif But thats ok because I have a roll cage I made inside it. Its a tough little 4wd. I don't like the window not going down because not using drive thrus is a pain with only one good leg /bcforum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
We started building a paint booth out of PVC pipe and plastic when someone showed us an ad for a 20 X 10 plastic building. Zippered entrances at both ends, clear plastic windows with roll-down covers. It weights around 120-150lbs. came with everything, powder coated 2" metal pipe frame, and the girls put it together in 3 hours. We put it sideways, right up against the garage door. We used it for everything and I only just took it down. It even took a snow load. Got it at Sam's Club at $199. Lot of money but it was great, and will be taken out and used again. We ended up painting the car elsewhere, but we primed it in there. Just a thought.

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I painted with about every kind of paint there is. Nothing has the depth of base/ clear coat, nothing. As for running base coat if you can run base coat, you don't need to be painting to begin with, that stuff goes on pretty near dry. A for small runs in the clear, just buff them out a few days after the paint is shot, if you get a run starting towards the bottom, just keep runnning it off the bottom, oldest painter trick in the book.
 
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