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Location:
Forster NSW
Registered:
September 2004
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Re: Spray painting when its cold, Why Not ????
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Wed, 17 August 2005 01:05
 
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It's probably just important for primer. The problem with it is that while the air temperature might be 15 degrees, your panel temperature is likely lower than that. When your panels are cold there will be almost like a thin film of moisture on them from the cold damp air. Try to paint onto this and it simply won't stick properly, possibly resulting in paint flaking off.
If you have to paint in cold weather, what I do is put the panels, or car in the sun for 5 or 10 minutes to heat up the panels while I mix up the paint and get everything ready to go. Once you have everything ready just bring the car or panels back inside, prepsol them and start painting.
If it's rainy or just not sunny outside, I use a cheapo ($20 type) fan heater to go around the car, or on the panels I'm going to paint, trying to heat from the underside of the panels, or from the inside of the car (eg. have the heater IN the boot heating from inside out).
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Spray painting when its cold, Why Not ????
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Kravit | Tue, 16 August 2005 14:48 |
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Re: Spray painting when its cold, Why Not ????
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PHOBIA | Tue, 16 August 2005 23:19 |
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Re: Spray painting when its cold, Why Not ????
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Kravit | Tue, 16 August 2005 23:44 |
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Re: Spray painting when its cold, Why Not ????
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Dale_ta22 | Wed, 17 August 2005 01:05 |
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Re: Spray painting when its cold, Why Not ????
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Rob.C | Wed, 17 August 2005 01:07 |
