Painting your car.

[dougs bs23]

And another little tidbit, if your doing this at home with your home compressor. If you dont have a dryer on your air system spend the 20 bucks or so and get your self a desiccant line dryer and filter to put set your gun up with.  sometimes the humidity in the airlines may cause some lifting or bubbling
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Dessicant Snake
      
Dessicant Snake
Reduces humidity in air delivered to spray guns. Install at end of air line supplying air tools. An economical alternative to expensive, wall-mounted desiccant drying systems. One year manufacturer's warranty. Made in USA.

     
Disposable In Line Air Filter
The removable whirlwind filter provides additional moisture and oil removal at the gun. This light weight filter features strong threads in a solvent resis- tant housing. Max operating pressure 125 psi. Clean and dry air traveling through an air hose can pick up moisture, dirt and oil. This in-line filter will remove any remaining contaminates down to one micron before they can ruin your paint job. Designed to complement, but not replace, conventional oil and moisture separators. Mounts on your paint gun or HotCoat Powder Gun.

[Carlwalski]

Anyone can paint, just not very well.

You beat me to it. Haven't read a lot of replies, just the first post then this one. I could paint a car, so could Stevie Wonder (lol) just it won't be as good as a professional who does it day in, day out.

[stinger]

I'm a pro,been painting for over 20 years.I can understand you guys wanting to do it you're self but in the end you would save time and money finding a shop to paint you're ride.the # 1 mistake I see with the amature painters is they cheap out on the undercoats/primer/sealer and skip too many steps in the prep then focus too much on the top coats.
next,they buy cheap equipment,sanders,spray guns etc.etc.if you're going to spray in you're garage,buy a good HVLP spray gun,I use Sata.
if you add up all the equipment and materials you're going to buy you could have a shop do it right.I only do cut ins in my garage.

But if you guys still insist on painting and have any questions,let me know and I'll try to point you in the right direction.
BTW,I mainly use DuPont paint.

[Chlngrcrzy]

I would love to have a professional paint my car.However the shops that i ahve talked to,They know what i have and want to charge me $5000 to $6000 to paint it. I don't have that kind of change sitting around, and they want it at the time i pick up the car. I want everything done right from the bare metal to the finished car, it may take me an extra year, but i will get it done right, even if i have to do it a dozen times.

[RUSTY Cuda]

It's not a money thing for me(not that I have it) but I really want to do it myself, I will end up paying probably more than if I just took it to a shop & not get the same results, but than I can't say, hey I did it myself, I'm still on my first car, second time around on trying to paint it, hopefully a 10 footer this time, next car maybe a 5 footer , gotta start somewhere. For me it's the doing, thats the fun (well most of the time)
If I was bulding a hemi #'s car , but alas it's a lowly 73 clone, so not too much harm done, next guy will have a good base, he can strip off the paint & have it done over if it's that bad! Rich.

[matt63]

I would love to have a professional paint my car.However the shops that i ahve talked to,They know what i have and want to charge me $5000 to $6000 to paint it. I don't have that kind of change sitting around, and they want it at the time i pick up the car. I want everything done right from the bare metal to the finished car, it may take me an extra year, but i will get it done right, even if i have to do it a dozen times.

I think alot depends on what you will be happy with in terms of the final outcome.  If you have to paint it a bunch of times you will spend a bundle on materials.  Maybe so much that you could have paid someone to do it.  I know the satisfaction of doing it yourself is very important for some so each to their own.  Good luck!  Also, those disposable gel bead type dessicant filters are about $10 and worked for me on the small paint jobs.

[stinger]

you can make you're own desacent trap with some pvc pipe,caps and the beads.run a filter after the trap so you don't get any desacent in you're lines and paint job.if you don't keep moisture out of you'e primer the sun will blister the paint job.