Painted it yesterday Options

[1bad914]

I took the afternoon off yesterday and painted the car. It turned out well, the color is Saturn Yellow, L13M. I made one major screw-up, let's see if you can find it. This car is slated for a 327-300 SBC conversion. Every time I paint I learn something. I am living proof that anyone can paint a car, 90% prep, 5% paint and 5% luck! Since I live in Michigan, any part that is covered, gets a coat or two of Por-15, that's why the door sills and firewall are not painted. The car was white!

Randy

[1bad914]

Do you mean at the gun or in the booth. Air pressure at the gun depends on the gun and the media. I use a traditional gravity feed gun and run the pressure at the gun from 40-60 psi depending on the media, the information sheet on the media gives you a range, the PPG Omni MBC recommends 40-50 psi at the gun. The clear recommends 50-60. Spend the money and buy a good gun air gage, I use a Devilbliss in line gage, I open it up all the way and then pull the trigger and adjust the rate with the adjuster on the wall. This guarantees that gun pressure to be accurate while spraying.

I traveled for a living for ten years, I was on the road an average of 2.5 weeks a month during that time. I finally got to the point of telling the parent to shut the kid up. Understand that if it is an infant, it can't be helped, but if it's some 5 year old brat kicking the seat I would kindly inform the parent if they did not control thier child I would. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif) I have wanted to strangle many little brats during that time, but I almost find the idiot drunk adult to be worse, that is one positive of 9/11, they are less tolerant of idiots in flight. It's kind of fun to piss off a drunk passenger and then watch them get in trouble. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Not like I would ever do that!!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif)