Critical Safety :Re: Subject: Painting a Scout

[Owen <renarac@domain.elided>]

Noboby has mentioned that you need to invest in a GOOD quality painting
respirator. One with screw on cannisters and get the correct cannisters at
your local paint shop. This is an obvious given for us that have painted
vehicles before, but it's an added cost to someone that's never done it
before.
Rattle cans are no biggie(I kinda enjoy the buz from a rattle can job).
But if you move up to the decent paints (Nassan) or good stuff (PPG), you
need some brain savers.
If you don't, you're a vegetable in 30 minutes.

Nassan White, babie! $60 in paint and thinner/reducer for a Traveler. It's
cheap stuff, but looks good for a few years and is pretty flexable. Only
drawback is it collects branch scratch marks pretty quick. The PPG on my
little Terra topped white/blue stripe '72 Scout II has held up against
branch marks for quite a while, but is brittle.

Also, if you do this booth, do it in your garage. ONLY paint on Sunday.
Most important, make sure you neighbors won't freak. If they're the type
that do (read:Yuppie scum), paint in quick bursts of no more than 20
minutes. When you're done, close any garage doors and LOCK them. It makes
the EPA's job a little more difficult. If they say you must open up the
door. Tell them to piss off and get a warrant on monday. If they'd like,
they can get a cop to enter on the grounds of a potential drug lab, but no
evidence will be admissable for any other topic.

John Langmaid wrote:

> I rattle-canned a '77 SSII that I used to own.  Pull all the trim that
> you can, mask the rest, give the old paint a quick wet-sand, and it
> should turn out pretty good.  Think I went through about 12 cans total
> for a three color camo paint job, and painted the spoke wheels gloss
> black...actually used to get a few compliments on it.  If you've got
> access to a compressor, build yourself a paint booth out of 2x4's and
> plastic, use box fans and furnace filters for ventilation, and you can
> get a nice paint job with a moderately priced paint gun and enamel
> paint, that'll probably last a little longer than the spray job would.
> All just a factor of what you're willing to spend, but either way's
> cheaper than $400.
> John
>
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