How Much Paint Is Required? Options

[kconway]

I'm going to paint my car, jambs, trunks, enginebay the whole nine yards. How much paint is required?

Kev

[charliew]

I'm not a production shop and really don't have a great booth but I get by pretty well. I use a optima german gun for top coats and a smaller italian gun for small areas. I also have a devilbis gti with a 32 oz cup for heavy paints. I retired two satas. I make sure I have good coverage. I paint both directions and do all the edges first. I usually get about 20 years out of my paint jobs. The TX. sun burns paint up if the film thickness isn't thick enough. The reason I do it myself is it gets done the way I like it. Sometimes over and over and over but usually not. As expensive as paint is running out is way more of a problem than having some left over for touchup. I'm not in the position of trying to make a profit on the materials so the material cost is all I have.

Oh yeah my first real job was painting on a production line in 1966 for sometimes two shifts. my paint can was a 60 gallon roll around pot. I usually went through at least two in a night. The product was on a moving conveyor. Painting was the first skill I learned after industrial arts in college.