At 06:45 PM 10/15/00 EDT, DDoyle9570@aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 10/15/00 1:29:04 PM Central Daylight Time,
>Enterprise@earthlink.net writes:
>
><< So here is the question: I have a compressor and can rent a professional
> spray gun but I don't have a spray booth, just my driveway; should I try to
> do it myself?
> >>
>A couple of years ago on the cover of military vehicles magazine was a photo
>of Uncle Sam spray painting a truck out in the wide open. A close look at
>vehicles in the local guard motorpool will often reveal paint quality that
>makes Earl Schieb look concourse quality.
Usually, I get away with spraying the film fleet out in the open (primarily
because suitable unoccupied indoor space is always at such a premium) without
too many problems, but my first (recent) gloss O.D. job on a U.S. Navy
EOD dually pickup managed to immortalize a few hapless insects better
than any amber ever could, for a nifty paint-job-slash-entomological exhibit
effect once it dried.
I've also seen guys spray-paint all sorts of nasty stuff in a hastily acquired
shelter little bigger than the vehicle itself, and generally wearing a rather
optimistic filter mask. Basically, yeah...you're indoors, but it's hard to
move around the vehicle, the lighting is generally not what you want
to make sure you 'got' everything, and the paint in the air within a confined
space will soon make its own impenetrable O.D. fog, which is harder
to breathe than it is to see through.
Inside, use an air-supplied respirator if the p.p.m. of paint vs. oxygen will
be anything worse than painting outdoors, and if painting outdoors, use
a really good charcoal filter mask suitable for filtering out the
vapours. 3M dustmasks don't cut it.
Andy Hill
MVPA 9211
Vancouver, B.C.
(oh yeah...outside, if there's any sort of reasonable wind, you'll find
much of
your expensive paint aerosols and never makes it onto the
truck. I hate it when that happens.)
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