Grrr paint

[londonsean69]

Originally Posted by adrianreeve

Life really is too short for some jobs!

Definately getting everything powdercoated, I've done my years of spraying stuff in a single garage (quite a few whole cars!) and covering everything with overspray, no matter how many dustsheets you use, getting high on paint fumes, annoying the neighbours etc.!

The cost of powdercoating really isn't that bad against the material costs for a good paint job, and while everything is out of your garage for a week, you can finish paintig the donor parts and clear the garage up ready for the clean work of assembly.

Cheers

Adrian

well, luckily enough I have a double garage, but it is full of the usual junk (Lawn mowers, mountain bike etc.).

I use a proper mask, so the fumes are no bother. Plus, the paint I am using uses White spirit for a solvent, so not a giddy high inducing as others anyway.

I would have had it powder coated, but the chassis isn't actually finished, still need to do engine & gearbox mounts, oh and headlight mounts.

The donor parts are all done, they were done before I had the steel for the chassis. Everything is cleaned, rebuilt, painted, labelled, and stored in plastic bags or boxes

Anyway, just fired on the second coat of primer. It will get a third coat tomorrow evening, then left for a couple of days to dry off. Then it's colour time

Due to the lingering paint fumes, the garage is gonna be out of bounds today, so am just going to clean my ChAvSTRA, as in REALLY clean it