RE: Paint Guns/Ollie's Ramblings

[Jeff Adams <ledman_70@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You have the right idea Neal. I painted the Dart in my garage and made a 
temporary paint boot by stapling clear plastic from Home-Depot to the 
ceiling and to 2x4's on the floor so it wouldn't drift, and overlapped 
it in a couple places for a door. Used and old box fan with 2 furnace 
filters taped to each side to move air. I did this in central Ohio in 
Febuary. No overspay on anything outside the booth, and it turned out 
pretty good for a first paint job. Here's some pics of the Dart.
http://s114.photobucket.com/albums/n273/Ledman_70/Dart/
neal zimmerman wrote:
> 
> I just completed an extensive DRY air system, running big pipes ,
> moisture drain valves, moisture trap , etc. The pipes run way up into
> the rafters of the barn and then back down.  I did it on the cheap as
> the  pipe was laying around and i sweet talked the guy at HomeDepot
> into threading it on their machine since it was the  4th of July, and
> they were slow, so he had time.  I just told him I would buy every
> thing else i needed for the project from them.  All told it cost me
> about 100 bucks in elbows, couplers,reducers etc. already had the
> moisture trap and draincocks though.
>   The point of this is , that I am gonna do my first paint job in
> about 15 years.  just cant afford the  5000 dollar two year paint
> jobs. screw it , heard too many horror stories.  My buddies '76
> camaro has been in a  "shop" for about 18 months now , with hardly any
> progress.
>    Shot a few cars with acrylic enamel with my dad when younger, the
> last was a VW beetle in about 1993.  The looked OK.  I bet I could do
> better now.
>   I am gonna  fashion a  make shift booth in the barn here.
>    I paint houses for a living so I am  comfortable with a spray gun,
> shooting oil enamels and lacquers for interior work. and lots of
> exteriors in acrylic.  so I feel I have the basics of how to keep the
> gun moving perpendicular and even to the work.  the auto finishes are
> a little thinner when mixed with reducer, but not much more than we
> mix our Benjamin Moore alkyd  enamels, they are pretty runny after
> dumping a bunch of thinner and conditioner in them. runs right off the
> stick.
>    so we'll see how it all turns out.
>  I am gonna go with a mid range ( 350 dollar) HVLP gun.  The shop had
> a SATA 3000 HVLP gun for 789.00 bucks, geez.
>   for primer guns I am just gonna use some old siphon guns I have
> picked up at various garage sales at abou 5.00 each. clean em up, and
> use em again for primer.  who cares about the primer, youre gonna sand
>  most of it back off anyway.
>     cant decide on acrylic enamel or  the base/clear approach.  still
> thinking about that.  My first victim will be my 64 cuda, poor thing
>   neal zimmerman, eugene oregon



Jeff Adams
64 Polara


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