On 1/22/2011 10:11 AM, Nate wrote:
If you're an artist you can do it with spray cans. I sold a VW bus to a woman who repainted it with spray cans and a hardware store owner I know used his private stock to repaint his Fiat based Scorpion. Actually the current spray cans are much better at providing an even spray than some of the earlier products. The acid test for any paint job is does it look better when you are done than when you started.
When I lived in Guatemala , the shop I worked at , used a hand bug sprayer often then hand rubbed out the paint to make it shine and remove the bugs that were always attracted to the wet paint.....
For the better $ jobs , they had a SEARS 1/10 HP compressor connected directly to the paint gun , no tank so if you watched them spraying , each stroke of the compressor made the gun spray a bit more , the final result was....... well .
Lots and lots of labor went into making the finished re sprays look O.K. from a KM or two away .
Good old ' Uncle Earl Schieb ' ~ " In by 8 , out by 5 ! $29.95 ! " . I remember his commercials and weird $29.95 colors , it cost extra to get any color you'd actually want =8-) .
The good thing was : he used Acrylic Enamel and once it hardened , you could cut and buff it to a mirror shine , we did so on many 5 year old chalky re - sprayed junkers then fixed them up to run well and made a handy profit on every one .
The devil really in in the details , the paint job details being removing the mouldings , door handles , bumpers etc. , etc. .
-Nate
Nate R. wrote:
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> I'll paint your car for $29.95.I remember.They looked like some cars were painted with a brush.
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