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last pic... that's my lil brother in the background

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So... what type of latex gloves were they ?

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wow...those are some fine analytical skills you have there

I'm using the cheap medical type latex gloves because I thought mineral spirits dry out your hands. I guess I will man up and go bare hands for the test.

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.. so we borrowed an HVLP spray gun and shot the rest of the paint. We sprayed two coats on the car outside and rolled the car in the garage after we finished spraying. the paint is rustoleum professional Royal blue and gloss white. I polished out the paint with a rotary buffer and a 3M hookit foam pad using the turtle wax polish suggested by 69charger. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves, but I will add that the color is a lot darker in person than it appears in the pics.

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It's elementary my dear Watson. You simply apply Murphy's Law to any thing that might go wrong and back track to the least suspicious suspect. It was a case of trying to figure out if the gloves had some small role to play in that defect or if your neighbors dog had stupidly licked away at the paint while you were off preparing another batch of paint ( check his tongue color just in case or that it is still alive ).

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I'm using the cheap medical type latex gloves because I thought mineral spirits dry out your hands. I guess I will man up and go bare hands for the test. :

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Yeah... you only have to worry about cancer and having deformed children with three heads if you swim in the stuff

It's no big deal to temporarily expose yourself to the mineral spirits or wiping yourself down after a painting session to remove any paint. The exposure is only short term and this project is short term. It would be a different story if you worked in a 'el cheapo' paint shop and had to expose yourself to contact with mineral spirits five days a week... fifty weeks of the year for the rest of your working career. Heck the 'fumes' in the air would probably blow out your lungs long before your skin starts growing cancerous warts.

My only embarassment during the painting stage was wearing open toed sandals. I have the 'loveliest' Fire Red toe nails in town. Which does nothing for ones macho ego...

Ah the joys of painting at home....

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I have the 'loveliest' Fire Red toe nails in town.

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I didn't go for the toenail look, but I had some lovely green sparkle fingernails till about last Tuesday. BTW, did you polish and wax the toenails, or just go with the two coats of Brightside? I do agree with you on the joys of home painting. LOL

On a more serious note, just a few more trim bits and the bumpers to mount, and Godzilla is back to wreaking havoc on Ontario roads

I gave up on water for the wet sanding, I just constantly on the paper. The paint does have some flaws in spots, but I'm out of time for now, and the change is so amazing, I'm just going to leave well enough alone for now. I'll go back over it again, and really smooth things out when I locate some new and improved body parts.

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hi all from australia

im sold. although, i want to paint my car (Holden HG Premier) satin black, and depending how thrilled i am afterwards, i might think about adding some gloss black flames or stripes or something.

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It would be great if you had any 'before' shots to give us an idea of what the car started like... was it simply a uniformly dull original paint job or was the car all primered up etc...

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The pics look great... but it is like that television show the swan... where you see the ugly chick transformed into 'the hot chick'... We can see the car turned out 'hot'... and now it would be nice to know where things started from...

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