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I've seen most of the thread. one question, for the brightside what is the best to thin with? Mineral spirits, Methyl Ethyl Keytone, 333? It seems I've seen each of them as a thinner in the tread at some point.

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however, i, myself, would like to know if Mineral Spirits would be okay to use for thinning with Brightside (or my Marine Paint), and if it would also be okay to use for cleaning a surface area just before laying down a layer of Brightside (or my Marine Paint).

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however, i, myself, would like to know if Mineral Spirits would be okay to use for thinning with Brightside (or my Marine Paint), and if it would also be okay to use for cleaning a surface area just before laying down a layer of Brightside (or my Marine Paint).

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I just did my truck in Brightside used mineral spirits to thin and wipe odwn.

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another one I thought of... for body filler, can I do it over rustoleum primer or should I do it on bare metal?

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Are you guys doing one body panel at a time? Do you recommend doing one body panel to completion and seeing how it looks and then doing the others all at once or one at a time? Obviously can't sand and paint at the same time.

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I did the whole truck for each coat.
But I do recommend doing a sample panel before starting, I didn't and ended up with to thick of paint on first coat which I sanded off and started over.
The learning curve is very fast and easy though.

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question about overnight moisture ,

I live close to the beach ,
we normally get overnight moisture nightly,

Problem is I am doing my Dodge van roof so it will not fit in the garage ,

So if I do it in the evening it will likely get wet overnight,
if I do it first thing in the morning the roof will be wet still,

where I need to park there is no sun till 9am or later because the sun is behing the 3 story buildings

any ideas ?

thanks for your help

Beaulieu

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Cudaman,

I know I could do it with a gun BUT, I chose the roller method for a lot of reasons:
1) I don't have an HVLP gun
2) I don't have an air compressor that can support an HVLP gun
3) I don't have any respirator equipment
4) I don't have anyplace big enough move around free enough to spray a car, and then $650 is way more than I can afford for paint at this time. Not to mention about another $1000 for all the other equipment, listed above, I don't have.

These are the same reasons that most everyone else doesn't spray their cars as well. At this point for me, that $1000 or more listed about what it will take to get my car on the road, if I spend it on just paint, I might have a conventionally painted car, but it still won't be roadworthy. If I roller it I can get it roadworthy, AND have a decent looking car.

Gerbs

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Are you guys doing one body panel at a time? Do you recommend doing one body panel to completion and seeing how it looks and then doing the others all at once or one at a time? Obviously can't sand and paint at the same time.

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I did the whole truck for each coat.
But I do recommend doing a sample panel before starting, I didn't and ended up with to thick of paint on first coat which I sanded off and started over.
The learning curve is very fast and easy though.

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ok i'v been reading this post for awile and would like to add my two cents. i painted my race car in one hour. never painted a car before. i use dupont paint, 1995 stealth pearl yellow, yellow base coat pearle coat then clear coat all in one hour cleaning the gun between each coating, i used a hvlp type system. it was so easy, no runs because it dries fast,10 minutes tops,did this in my garage and had no over spray with this gun and uses 1/3 the paint they recomend. i wet sanded with 1500 two hours later and it was beautiful. i just can't see why you guys would go to all that trouble to paint that way. total cost(with too much paint i can paint two more cars with what i got left) was 650 dollars,all paint, it is so easy, real hard to make a mistake. if u can use a rattle can you can do this.

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