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Painting Truths
1. The one hanger you put in the otherwise beautiful clearcoat will be right on the driver's door in plain view.
2. Yellow gnats are attracted to dark paint - black gnats are attracted to light paint. It's in their contracts.
3. Never paint in Indiana or anywhere else in the Midwest after 8 pm unless you want the above flying animal kingdom to land in your paint. A booth won't help.
4. If you follow the mfg. directions EXACTLY you get a nice wrinkle finish that matches your Cobra valve covers.
5. Never loan your primer gun to somebody else. It comes back clogged and useless and you end up priming the car with your touchup gun.
6. Likewise, never mix your base and clear guns, cause you get that nice Candy Apple Red splotch right in the middle of your Acapulco Blue car you've just base coated.
7. No matter how careful you are your assistant will find a way to drag the airline along the body somewhere. Give up hope.
8. No matter how much friends ask you to do them a favor and paint their car as cheap and fast as possible - say no. Those jobs ALWAYS take twice as long and they knit pick it to death.
9. No matter how expensive a respirator you have, you're going on a nice halucinagenic trip. Sit back and enjoy the ride, man!
10. No matter how much you explain that your elbows hurt because you've been wet sanding a car, your friends will accuse you of causing these injuries through other more private means. Just go ahead and lie and tell them your wife's out of town.
1. The one hanger you put in the otherwise beautiful clearcoat will be right on the driver's door in plain view.
2. Yellow gnats are attracted to dark paint - black gnats are attracted to light paint. It's in their contracts.
3. Never paint in Indiana or anywhere else in the Midwest after 8 pm unless you want the above flying animal kingdom to land in your paint. A booth won't help.
4. If you follow the mfg. directions EXACTLY you get a nice wrinkle finish that matches your Cobra valve covers.
5. Never loan your primer gun to somebody else. It comes back clogged and useless and you end up priming the car with your touchup gun.
6. Likewise, never mix your base and clear guns, cause you get that nice Candy Apple Red splotch right in the middle of your Acapulco Blue car you've just base coated.
7. No matter how careful you are your assistant will find a way to drag the airline along the body somewhere. Give up hope.
8. No matter how much friends ask you to do them a favor and paint their car as cheap and fast as possible - say no. Those jobs ALWAYS take twice as long and they knit pick it to death.
9. No matter how expensive a respirator you have, you're going on a nice halucinagenic trip. Sit back and enjoy the ride, man!
10. No matter how much you explain that your elbows hurt because you've been wet sanding a car, your friends will accuse you of causing these injuries through other more private means. Just go ahead and lie and tell them your wife's out of town.
