Lloyd
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Bondo, are you trying to teach me or are you just showing off because I don’t have a real shop like you? :stoned
That car can surely be fixed, but is it worth it? I think butchering the animal and selling the meet might make more sense, haha.
Hi and :welc . People here are so generous with information, I am sure you will be helped tremendously. I would also like to suggest you take advantage of the many videos that are posted. You can learn a lot by watching someone actually do the prep work and paint. I don’t think there is any subject involving painting that has not bee either discussed or shown in video here. Enjoy!!! Oh yes, congratulations on getting around to something you’ve always wanted to do, so often people never do what they’ve always wanted to do and that in my mind, just takes something away from enjoying this life we have.
Congratulations, peace of mind is worth more than money!!!
…ain’t that the truth…gutting is a whole other issue…but just as rewarding when you get done. Been there, done that!!!
Congratulations, you are moving along quite nicely…it’s one thing to buy one, it’s something totally different to build your own. Enjoy the fruits of your labor.
That looks Marvelous!!!!
You’re my hero man…doing what I am about to start doing. I’m sure the Golf GTI appreciates the face lift, good deal!!!
…actually, I think I’m going to put my Jon boat in it and test pretty soon as I have been thinking about painting it. I’m going to put a coat of Epoxy paint on the concrete floor first though (that will actually cause one test with the booth totally open and no vehicle). Thanks for all the input guys, I appreciate it.
Got some deer hits coming in do you?
Good, cause I’m tired, haha.
Update on the slow coming paint area in the garage.
Intake air
The two box fans for intake air
Exhaust fans, didn’t put the door down on them, it’s cold, haha
See, that’s the temperature without the heat on right now.
Just the door to the paint area, most of the plastic is up, dry wall coming later. Pretty good light in the paint area.
Yep Ding…have some filters ready for the back of it so the air will be pulled through the filter as opposed to pushed out to avoid over spray from even getting into the tube. Thanks.
As an add-on, I use an Iwata LPH400 so overspray is very minimal in my limited experience with this gun. It’s kind of slow, but the lack of overspray makes up for the reduced spray speed (not a production type situation for me).
This is totally not suppose to be done!!!…I had a guy come resurface my bathtub. I then asked him for the MSDS sheet for the material he was spraying and what do you know Isos and the VOC’s were in the 4.7 lbs/gal range. Well, at this point the wheels are turning since I was at that very moment converting my garage into a paint area. This is what he was using for exhaust –> http://www.harborfreight.com/8-inch-portable-ventilator-97762.html (he had one of these in the bathroom with an exhaust hose running outside through my son’s bedroom).
I can’t remember the actual material since it’s been a while that he was spraying, but it looks just like unreduced paint. So, I bought five of these fans (about 7,500 cfm exhaust built into a box and placed below the garage door). Then I put two 20″ box fans (high) for intake in an attempt to maintain a negative pressure situation in the paint area (7,500 – 4,000 = -3500) and one open space that just has a filter in front of it so the five fans can pull extra air if they like.
The intake and open flow filter comes from the other side of the garage so that I can pull heat in from a heater in the winter and air conditioning from an in window air conditioner in the summer. A couple days ago, it was in the twenties in the midwest and it was 78 F in the paint area. The summer has yet to give me a response as I have not tested it in the summer yet.
fans inside the box.
I have not taken pictures of the intake air yet, but will get around it sooner or later. I also haven’t tested this on an entire car paint job either, but have tested it with dry ice and it flows well.
:welc , enjoy the site, it’s phenomenal!!!
