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Re: spray painting tech articles	Sun, 23 March 2003 21:13

if a panel beater works for $100/hour and you work for $20-30/hour....you do the math les is right...99% of a GOOD paint job is prep work, if you give up half way through prep and just decide on painting then you are going to have a really shithouse paintjob having painted a crapload of cars myself most of the latest in pearl colours (which really shows up small imperfections in the bodywork)...i would advise against using any bog at all, as bog expands and contracts slightly with heat, over time it is only going to show up in the bodywork and leave you with fixing it again that said unless you can weld id get a panelbeater to get your car straight first and do the rest of the prep yourself, i dont know how bad your car is dinged up but expect to pay $500-$1000 to have all your dings lead filled and hand filed and any rust you need to get cut out and weld bits back in can be extra,dont quote me on the price im not a panelbeater and generally dont asscoiate with them ever, i only know they are hell expensive and one guy can charge ten times what his neighbour is charging and turn out a worse job then you have to decide whether or not to sand back to bare metal and if you do then do it before it goes to the panel beater as im sure you will discover somebody elses bog job under there somewhere sometimes i even remove all the interior as well as the engine just to staisfy myself there is no rust and then let the paint protect it anyway it all depends on how far you want to go, my theory is if im going to spend a week (not all at once,lol) preparing the car for painting and the spend money on painting it, i want to be rewarded for my efforts in the car looking %100 NUMBER ONE RULE: A paintjob is only as good as the surface underneath itself [Report message to a moderator]

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