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Cale's 55 Chevy

kmakar said:
I never did like painting in the cold. Got less than desired results and always required sanding between coats, and lots of cutting and buffing. The shop didn't like to heat above 50° in the winter.

Summer months using slow, 99.8% of the time I got a perfect finish on clear.
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We're cutting and buffing the whole car anyway. Got quite a bit of dirt in it, but that's expected painting in a garage. We power washed it out before, and kept the floor wet, but still far from a clean professional booth.
 
Derek69SS said:
We're cutting and buffing the whole car anyway. Got quite a bit of dirt in it, but that's expected painting in a garage. We power washed it out before, and kept the floor wet, but still far from a clean professional booth.
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Kinda tough to do when there's no filtration for makeup air...... but it looks good. It'll be good for Cale to get some heavy elbow grease into it and make it worth just that much more to him.
 
I get trash in a booth also, usually no more than a a dozen or so very small issues though. That's another big advantage to flow coating, the booth gets cleaner every coat, since your overspray actually seals the shelved trash, like the tops of your light fixtures. Biggest source of trash is your clothing, so having 2 people in the booth and without suits is huge.
 
Funny you mention that..... my mentor taught me to hang my new spray suit in the booth when we cleared a car.... he always told me it'll keep the fibers from flying off.
 
Seems half of my career was working in a high tech cleanroom, so you get very aware of air scrubbing, and just where and how contaminants travel. Too much flow, crossflow, and shedding objects all work against you.......and static, static is HUGE.
 
A lot of the dirt seemed to be coming out of my furnace. We had to rig up a plywood deflector to keep the trunk lid a little cleaner before we started with the clear. I blew out the fins multiple times before, but I think that may have loosened up some of the insulation in it.

A real booth would have been nice, but we'll put in the work on the cut and buff to get professional looking results in the end.
 
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