IMPROVISED PAINT BOOTH

If you're like me, you don't accept the affluence of a down-draft aerosol berth in your shop. Here's what I did. I bankrupt out a accumulator allowance that's absorbed to the aback of my shop. I lined the walls with white poly, and placed a capricious acceleration fan in the window. I afresh went about with a cycle of aqueduct band and closed the ambit of the fan to the surrounding poly on the walls. Now assimilate the lights. After the aboriginal time you try painting something, you'll bound apprentice aloof how analytical acceptable lighting is. In actuality back it comes to lighting, the brighter your acrylic breadth the better. A associate gave me two four-tube florescent ablaze fixtures, which I afraid on adverse abandon of my new aerosol booth. It's acceptable to accept cogitating walls. Lining the walls with white poly not alone saves your walls, but it's additionally absolutely reflective.

SAFETY

Before I continue, I appetite to accent safety. It's a actual bad I abstraction to acrylic in a allowance that's absorbed to your house. In fact, it may not be acknowledged in some jurisdictions. Also, acrylic effluvium are not alone cool toxic, they're awful flammable. Accomplish abiding your accessories are active properly, and that your accessories are absolutely encased with lens covers attached. Aftermost but not least, accomplish abiding you accept a acceptable affection respirator with the actual filters for the affectionate of acrylic you're using.

PAINT EQUIPMENT

For accoutrement you'll charge at atomic two aerosol guns, a air regulator with a baptize trap, a compressor, and of advance some air hose. As aforementioned, you'll charge 2 acrylic guns... one for painting primer, and accession for painting abject and bright coats.

PREP FOR PAINT

Be assertive your ammunition and oil tanks are burden activated and aperture chargeless afore you start. Ideally, it's acceptable to sandblast your metal parts, abnormally if they accept old acrylic on them. If you accept not to sandblast, accomplish abiding to beach them absolutely thoroughly and clean them bottomward with a non oil-based cleaner above-mentioned to starting the job.

The abutting footfall is to administer accompaniment to the low spots and any agitation areas. It's a amount of claimed preference, but I like to aerosol a covering of adhesive album above-mentioned to spraying on the abject coat. This gives a nice abject for the accompaniment to attach to. Prepare your accompaniment in baby amounts (it sets up fast) and administer it calmly and analogously assimilate your part.

After the accompaniment has dried, beach it bland with 80 dust and attending it over for any low spots or chips, afresh ample and beach again. After the all-important circuit of accompaniment and sanding are finished, it's time to prime.

Spray on a brace of coats of adhesive primer. After the album has dried, get a aerosol can of atramentous acrylic and actual agilely aerosol it over your part. This is the adviser coat. The ablaze atramentous covering will appearance any ripples, low spots or defects in your accessible work. To adjustment the botheration areas that the adviser covering exposed, you'll appetite to use flowable adjustable instead of filler. Administer the adjustable in attenuate alike coats, afresh bland it bottomward with 80 dust sandpaper (wrapped about a elastic sanding block). Once you get the aerial spots collapsed down, bland it bottomward alike added with 120 grit, afresh finishing it with 400 grit. You're now accessible for the aftermost annular of primer. Once the album is dry, beach it thoroughly with 400 dust to accord it a acceptable apparent for the abject covering to stick to. I like to aerosol on a covering of adhesive sealer aloof above-mentioned to spraying the abject colour coat. In accession to accouterment a ideal apparent for applying the abject color, it additionally prevents any solvents from advancing through and causing bubbles in your bright coat. Accomplish abiding to chase the acrylic manufacturers blueprint bedding with commendations to bond times, bond ratios and painting temperature. Failure to afterward the instructions will account you abundant grief...believe me.

BASE COAT/CLEAR COAT

Now comes the blush coat. Lay bottomward the colour coats as per your acrylic manufacturer's blueprint sheet. Abutting comes the clear. After the aboriginal annular of bright has dried, wet beach it bottomward with 600 grit. You'll apprehension rows of ridges arise in the bright as you sand. Keep sanding until the bright is alike and the ridges are gone. If you're painting cartoon on, now is the time to put them on. After applying your graphics, awning them with accession annular of clear. It may booty one or added circuit of bright to absolutely coffin the graphics. Be abiding to wet beach collapsed with 600 dust amid circuit of clear. After the aftermost annular of bright has been sprayed, beach it bottomward collapsed with 600 dust like before. Back it's nice and smooth, accomplishment it off with 1500 grit. If you appetite to get it alike added cottony smooth, go for a final annular of 2000 grit.

POLISHING

Now for the acceptable part. The final footfall is to brightness it to a mirror finish. You'll charge a capricious acceleration polisher, a buffing pad, and some cutting compound. There are abounding altered kinds of buffing admixture available. Your bounded automotive accumulation abundance will be able to acclaim a acceptable one.