question for pro painters & decorators only pls?

Question

right bit of a strange one lads, but would you feel confident painting a car, now obviously im not talking getting your Purdy out, but if you have used sprayers on jobs over the years do you think you could do it, I mean in principle its the same, do your prep, rub down, filler, primer, flatten off blah blah blah, im a time served painter and have used sprayers on jobs allot, and don’t want to pay out 3 or 4 grand for a paint job., so lads am I nuts or do you think it’s a go’er, I know your average joe with no experience has done it but would you have a go

ive got all the gear, compressor, spray guns, air tools, ect

this is what im thinking of painting
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Answer 1

Its not at all like painting a house. I just did all the body work on my car and painted it. It turned out pretty good I even made my own decals I went into a word program on my computer chose the font and size text i wanted then printed it on wax paper with an HP laser jet (it took a few trial and error to get it right) then I taped ove the letters and looking through the waxed paper I cut out the stencils everthing turned out great. I also had a lot of rust on my rocker panels so what I did was take a grinder with a cutting wheel and cut out any part that was rusted roughly 27"x3" then I taped it off poked a few small holes about ever six inches and sprayed in great stuff (the expanding foam) I let it set in the sun for a few days removed the tape and then sanded the foam to shape I used a 2x4 as a fairing board and ran it along the existing body to check fo high-low spots then in low spots I used bondo then I fiberglass over the top of it all to give strenth and keep bondo from falling out ect. then sanded the glass down to smooth finish. Now that trick is worth milloins I even had auto body guys thinking it was well done. You cant sand between coats on metalic flake, you can and should on the primer(also thin your primer way down 50-60%) Your build is in the clear I used a cheapo clear from Pep boys and it sucks you can wipe it right off with acetone, You must use a high build clear with hardner. If you wet sand between coats on clear use 2000grit and dont harly sand it because if you cut into the flakes your screwed. Anyway thats my experience, All in all to take the doors off and all the seals and do the prep work and paint I had about 40 hrs. I did it all myself I did the body work during the week so I could drive and thursday I removed all the seals and sanded it and then friday when I got home I wiped the whole car down with acetone removed the doors, hood.trunk. and Started the prep taping off plastic in doors and paper on windows on sat 12hrs painting I staged everthing out so when iwas done with paint I coud sand . then sprayed flake. Sun 12hrs sprayed clear and started putting back together. Anyway Go for it If You can paint PAINT

Answer 2

One of the biggest problems you will face is keeping dust and other particles of the wet paint..and at this time of year, rain and possibly snow as well. If you have a clean,well-ventilated enclosed space to work in then give it a go..why not start by buying the cheapest car you can find and giving it a paint job before selling it on or having the scrap man collect? If you can make a junker look good then you know what you're doing and have had a master class in it for two or three hundred pounds. If you make a mess of it then you can try again until you get it right..or give up on the idea of course, but at least it won't cost you a fortune to have someone else put it right for you since it won't matter one way or the other.

Answer 3

Depends on what kind of a job you hope to do. While you may be a dab hand with the old spray gun...it can only ever be as good as average, unless you have an air-filtered contained space. For this reason spray jobs out of a shop are rarely any good imho....there is just too much floating about in the air.

Answer 4

With all due respect to you, and others, certainly there are considerations beyond what one might experience in spray painting a house. That's pretty much a "DOH" issue.

I think you've answered your own question in the affirmative anyway.

Tell ya what... Define an area where you'll have exhaust, and enclosed. Buy/borrow/steal a new; metal trash can, and practice your technique on it.

Don't over think this. BUT do research and practice.

Steven Wolf

Answer 5

selina is right.. about having it done in a proper paint room away from anything that can mess with the paint.

I had a car resprayed years ago, and it wasn't a good job.

obviously you can do it yourself but you have to mask everything up etc. better job to do under cover, out of the rain with plenty of room / ventilation (paint fumes).

Answer 6

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Answer 7

My brother did it with little experience. But he did not rub it out and was called orange peel. Otherwise looked good.