Lowell and Vic, I used an outside air supply I built from a $40 shopvac that
you can reverse the hose to blow air. The vac was hooked to a garden hose
that fed a $30 hood that I bought on line from a safety equip supplier,
Cole-Parmer. I would recommend outside air for all painting. I didn't use an
air supply when Polybrushing and even with the garage doors open, it was
still a strong respritory and eye irritant. I won't paint without an outside
air supply. Vic that spinner paint job reminds me of painting aerodynamic
car mirrors with an elongated body. No flat spots to put horiz., Had to keep
turning them. I wound up with runs too. I can imagine wheel pants would
present the same problem. I had almost no overspray using a HVLP gun from
Harbor Freight Tool. Not the turbine air feed but the standard compressor
feed type. It was awesome dirt cheap paint equipment. I didn't need a booth.
The only thing I would change is my lighting system. It was totally
inadequate.
Pat Reilly
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Vic Baker <vr_baker@nvbell.net> wrote:
>
> Lowell,
>
> Using Polytone here. The blush retarder I use to slow drying (improve
> gloss) makes paint prone to run unless great care is used. I shot almost
> all paint (trim and main) onto horizontal surfaces. (rotate part being
> painted) The spinner was especially interesting to paint. After twice
> getting runs I built a little fixture to slowly rotate while drying. For
> the trim I used propylene masking tape from ACS, I pulled the tape shortly
> after one cross coat (perhaps no longer than 5 minutes). Again -
> horizontal surfaces only - had no runs.
>
> On the paint booth, I spent quite a bit of time trying to get it right.
> Lighting, sealed motor exhaust fan, incoming air filters from a "paint
> booth" supplier. I used a bunch of Lowes air filters (home heating return
> duct filters) to filter to overspray out of the exhaust.
>
> Finally, although I used a quality breathing mask, I discovered when
> painting the blue trim that my beard was blue around where the mask fit. It
> had been leaking all through the building process and I did not notice it.
> Now, two years later, I still cannot smell MEK. You are shooting
> Aerothane so I know you have a forced air supply for breathing.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Vic
>
>
> Vic Baker
> S7 912S Warp
> Carson City, Nv
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lowell Fitt" <lcfitt@sbcglobal.net>
> To: <kitfox-list@matronics.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 3:42 PM
> Subject: Painting Question
>
>
>>
>> Tomorrow or Friday latest, I plan on painting the trim colors on my
>> fuselage. It has been ten years since I did the deed and want to ask for
>> advice from those that have painted more recently and can remember. I am
>> using Aerothane in a home made paint booth.
>>
>> 1. Did you rotate the fuselage and only paint horizontal surfaces?
>>
>> 2 when did you pull the masking tape?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Lowell
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
--
Pat Reilly
Mod 3 582 Rebuild
Rockford,IL
