Re: Paint Guns/Ollie's Ramblings

[neal zimmerman <neal.zimmerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

I just completed an extensive DRY air system, running big pipes ,
moisture drain valves, moisture trap , etc. The pipes run way up into
the rafters of the barn and then back down.  I did it on the cheap as
the  pipe was laying around and i sweet talked the guy at HomeDepot
into threading it on their machine since it was the  4th of July, and
they were slow, so he had time.  I just told him I would buy every
thing else i needed for the project from them.  All told it cost me
about 100 bucks in elbows, couplers,reducers etc. already had the
moisture trap and draincocks though.
  The point of this is , that I am gonna do my first paint job in
about 15 years.  just cant afford the  5000 dollar two year paint
jobs. screw it , heard too many horror stories.  My buddies '76
camaro has been in a  "shop" for about 18 months now , with hardly any
progress.
   Shot a few cars with acrylic enamel with my dad when younger, the
last was a VW beetle in about 1993.  The looked OK.  I bet I could do
better now.
  I am gonna  fashion a  make shift booth in the barn here.
   I paint houses for a living so I am  comfortable with a spray gun,
shooting oil enamels and lacquers for interior work. and lots of
exteriors in acrylic.  so I feel I have the basics of how to keep the
gun moving perpendicular and even to the work.  the auto finishes are
a little thinner when mixed with reducer, but not much more than we
mix our Benjamin Moore alkyd  enamels, they are pretty runny after
dumping a bunch of thinner and conditioner in them. runs right off the
stick.
   so we'll see how it all turns out.
 I am gonna go with a mid range ( 350 dollar) HVLP gun.  The shop had
a SATA 3000 HVLP gun for 789.00 bucks, geez.
  for primer guns I am just gonna use some old siphon guns I have
picked up at various garage sales at abou 5.00 each. clean em up, and
use em again for primer.  who cares about the primer, youre gonna sand
 most of it back off anyway.
    cant decide on acrylic enamel or  the base/clear approach.  still
thinking about that.  My first victim will be my 64 cuda, poor thing
  neal zimmerman, eugene oregon


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