Thread: how to do the best paint job on your own. polish in the end? advice please

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they make line dryers but i had good luck with a filter that used a toilet paper roll .i used desiccant filter dryer on the gun. had one hose i used for paint work

A paint job done without a paint booth can end like this one on the image?
How this car shines to much? it's the wax? this isn't just the buffing that makes this, right?
http://www.rampantscotland.com/know/...s/imp2469a.jpg

The picture that is attached has NO WAX. It is just sanded, buffed and polished.

most air tanks have a fitting at the bottom of the tank. If you let it leak a little, a lot of water will exit out right there.

I had a friend paint 3 of my cars in his garage and I wetsanded and buffed 2 of them ,then I found a guy that does it for a body shop and he charged $100 and a case of beer ,from now on I will hire that part out .As far as water in the lines ,a buddy came to my shop and told me to increase the size of the line coming from the compressor ,I think my outlet was 1/2" so he ran 3/4" plastic pipe yes plastic pipe from Lowes ,3 yrs and no water even in humid Indiana summers and I dont have a dryer on it

I'm shooting my 32 with acrylic urethane. To warm up I painted the bottom and firewall first. This picture is the bottom with no color sanding or buffing.

It's not in the same class (or universe) as what hotrodpaint does of course, but it was my first ever attempt at painting. I shot it outside of the garage with no booth on a nice calm morning in Texas. There is orange peel on the bottom but I don't really care about that. But I like the reflection of the rag in the paint in the photo! There was peel on the firewall as well that I color sanded and buffed out readily.

Good Luck, Kitz

Kitz, Don't apologize for your work. The only difference between us is that I just have more practice..........(or I'm more anal). :-)

Besides, after this many years of practice, my work better damn well be shiny, or I'd be doing something else for a living!

how do you sand your works?
you sand in circles or allways in the same direction?
and the buffing and polish? circles or same direction?

It depends on the surface that I'm sanding, but the paper is so fine, it doesn't matter that much. You will get into less trouble circle sanding.

Man this is the big leagues! Brian, Henry Rifle, C9x and now Kitz are doing their own excellent paint! I know Brian sprayed his in the Canadian summer, and Tucson, Texas and Portugal are usually pretty warm but what about temperature????? I was doing OK with spray can Rustoleum on my black (Henry Ford told me to use black) frame and every non-chromed under part until about October and then the paint started to wrinkle-crinkle and although the mess won't show where I have repeatedly sanded it out and repainted again and sanded and repainted about five times, it really worries me about the effect of temperature. How about one of you pros saying a few words about temperature effects on painting? As it is I will not attempt any further painting except on chassis parts and farm out the work to a local pro. How cold is winter in Portugal, probably not too bad?

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

the thinner in the paint needs to move out faster so it will not run down the floor drain. and if it dry to slow it may pull up our primer or up sand scratchs i have painted when it was be low 60 you have to make shure what ever you paint is not to cold and i have painted all my cars and trucks did this stuff for 20 +years for a living and have put paint on every but a train and got my pic in hot rodding wheeling out the holley car

I'm in Tucson now, but grew up painting in the midwest. It was a little tougher with lacquers, as they tended to "blush" (get cloudy spots) if the temps were cold and damp.

I've never seen any paint manufacturers recommend spraying in temperatures lower than 55 degrees. The key is to use reducer recommended for the temperature of your shop. Thinner coats, and more dry time will help too.

damp is the big deal if it was damp or raining it would not get painted if if could be help i live mich so it gets damp but summer was all ways the tuff time to spray humidityis at %100. winter is not to bad any thing below 55 is pushing it but some time the shops i work in had a hard time geting past this temp.when it is be low 10 out side the air temp would drop when the ex fan was on in the both so if the car was warmer than that it work but it was fun

Hi
it's almost done
here is a picture after polish. isn't perfect yet even in the picture looking perfect.
I'm using only my hand,no machines, i never thought i had to repeat the polish so many times till have the car shinning again. I'ts not easy but i'll do the job!!

The weather here in portugal is not very cold but unfortunly i start the car in the summer and i'm finishing in the winter so when i painted the car was a day with rain and was about 20º celsius.

Looks good?
http://pwp.netcabo.pt/0248749101/fiat/frente_polida.jpg

(why my image don't appear? only a link... i used the img tag :/ Weird...)

Not bad, better than I could do. Just for the record, using the formula: F = (9/5) C + 32 converts 20 degrees C to 68 F so that is about what my indoor thermostat is set at and actually quite warm for this time of year; here in Virginia just across the Atlantic we have had nights at 40 F already so my frame gets pretty cold overnight in an unheated garage.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder