The Paint Thread...

[KeeleDesign]

there's 2 other paint and body guys that i know of that completely ignore this thread, lol. later.

I see why.......... how can u correct something that has been viewed 13,000 times..... geese man...

it's overwhelming to see this much misinformed aray of knowledge...

[darkfusion42]

I usually do. While I'm a complete novice, I know enough to know what is good in this thread and what isnt lol.

[KeeleDesign]

my lph400 Iwata gun.



this is one of my latest side projects, i haven't taken the finished photos yet, it was what he wanted, viper blue

you'll see my uv primer light in this photo


in this photo you will see my shop area and how i paint every piece off the car and do it right on everything we do,, in the background you can see some of our wrecks and a few motorcycles i have done and am about to do.


this photo is showing my work before i ever wetsand and buff it.. these pictures have not been edited in any form.



now in this photo i had already wetsanded and buffed the hood as you can tell from the reflection.



and this is a photo of the healights out and i was color matching the inside to match the car and then black eyebrows painted to match the hood. at this point the car had gotten dust all over it again, and nothing was buffed in this photo.



i went back and wetsanded and buffed the entire car,, the car only had 2 coats of ppg 2002 high solid clear on it.


this truck was a poject that i chose not to buff because he wasn't paying enough for the job. but in this photo i skined the tailgate with this and welded it up and slicked it out before i painted it..


apparently i don't have photos taken of my satajet 2000 or my devilibis plus... i will get those,, or of my satajet primer gun with 1.3 tip... don't believe what you here from others.. you do want to break the primer up verry fine.

[CB74christ]

great info thanks for taking the time to post. but i was just wondering what else effects the price of buying the paint itself other than the amount that you are buying?

[ChIoVnIdCa]

I paint cars daily and as of date i have painted over 30,000 cars

I will have to call bs on this one

21 work days in a month
252 work days a year
If you average one car a day it would take you 119 years to paint that many cars


We will assume you started painting professionally at 18 years old.. So you have been doing this for six years
6 years equals 1512 work days
So you would need to average 19 cars a day
Say you work 10 hour days
So that would be a car completely painted every 31 minutes if you work every second of that time

[KeeleDesign]

you can call bs man,, and honestly if i were in your shoes, i would to.. it does sound obserd, but i have every single RO invoice from when i first started, and it's rediculous,,, no, i didn't go through and count as that would take forever,, just an educated guess.
our big brother shop about an hour from where i live, is where i started.. and we put out over 150 cars a week. we have 5 paint booths and i worked their for 3 years. they also empolyed 16 body men and 10 machanics 2 painters and alot of hourly helpers. i jumped from booth to booth to booth as the helpers got the cars taped up and rolled in the booths,, maybe my math is off, as i am horrible at. But i know what's right and wrong when your in a body shop working on cars.

[ar design]

About to paint my CB7 with Wine interior... Thinking of doing this color: http://dealerrevs.com/gallery/4110302.html

Any thoughts?

[Gnyce09]

qood stuff
and 2 ar design

i think the color is aiqht

[Autotek]

There is no way I could have counted how many cars,bikes,mailboxes,motorcycles,golfcarts,compute r cases,cell phones and much more. Ive been painting for 17 years and for the record in one day, Ive painted 4 cars and 5 golfcarts...with 1 bake booth and that was a rough day..