Technical The Painting at home in the driveway or garage thread

I painted mine in my garage with BC/CC using an old "Hobby-Air" supplied breathing air pump.

Looks pretty good for a driver, I think.

 

I would like to see this. Can you start your own thread?

 

I painted the 32 in my avatar in my garage at home BC/CC just wore a respirator and wet the floor

 

Let's bump this up and keep it going

 

Make sure you're neighbors are cool with it ,unfortunately mine aren't

 

All of my cars are painted in my garage at home. I own a body shop with a booth,
And
My cars
Come out nicer at home in my poll barn.


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Finished the econoline painted in the garage. My 2nd paint job.

 

^^^ That reflection on the side doesn't lie, very nice! Lots of great examples/work in this thread, high quality work can and is done at home.

 

I want more It's all

 

There must be some more painting going on somewhere

 

I have some running boards for a 52 Ford pick up I am working on.

 

Here's mine painted at home in my garage. Base coat clear coat, guards red. 1950 gmc.

 

I painted my son's wagon: HOK abalone flake over white with burple candy and red wine candy. Used a turbine HVLP sprayer I got used off eBay

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In the early 70's, I painted a lot of motorcycles using a small craftsman compressor that came with a spray gun that could be used as a siphon feed or pressure fed, and a Thayer Chandler airbrush. Painted some in the driveway, some in the garage. I guess people liked the work.........I stayed busy.








In later years graduated to things with 4 wheels.



I never sprayed in a spray booth until the late 70's and the results were no better than a garage paint job. The chances of a cleaner paint job are certainly increased in a booth, but I personally think that a lot of the defects, dirt, fish eyes, etc... can be traced to the cleanliness of the car and the painter.

 

Painted this one in my garage. Sold it though


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Booth helps with bugs, overspray, safe evacuation of fumes, control of filtered make up air. Let a filthy painter in the booth with transmission fluid on his pants and watch what happens.

 

Did this in Mom and Dad's driveway in 1975, last sighting was in California, if you know who owns it now please send me a PM. Bob

 

I'm not really ready to paint anything on Edith, but there's always other things to paint & it was actually warm enough to paint in my garage this AM.

I've been de-rusting some 40+ year old wheels for a trailer I plan to build this winter. They were OK, but a bit rusty with a few serious rust pits. The electrolytic process has its advantages: Electrolysis really cleans out the pits, but it's not a panacea. A lot of cleaning is still required to get good results & there was quite a lot of smut on the wheel that doesn't just rinse off.

This wheel was rusty and was poorly repainted in the 70's. This is what it looked like after 5 days in the tank, a dose of Zip-Strip, a couple more days in the tank, solvent degreasing, and a good burnishing with wire wheels, cups, sandpaper, scotchbrite & elbow grease.

Wet Rustoleum primer shot this AM:



(For some reason the reflections of my florescent lights came out very yellow in this pic, while the camera flash is white.)

 

Wow that primer looks glossy wet, but it's dead flat now boy!
I'm going to let the primer cure a few days before finish paint.

I'm gonna spray-bomb them with Rustoleum 2x Painter's Touch, in a nice bright glossy green.

I've used this before and it runs quite easily, so I'll probably have to shoot 10 coats at least.

 

Nice blue. I had a Ford painted about that color with white pinstripes. Neat combination.

 

Way back picture of driveway painting, later painted the body in the same place; but after 11 at night, the skeeters and bugs had gone to sleep and humidity was down so the lacquer wouldn't blush (bottom was Centari).

 

I love this thread!
It reminds me of chopping a bike in my spare bedroom, in some nice old farmhouse from the 20's.
I was painting, brazing, welding, cutting, grinding, etc, indoors, in a wood framed house with oak floors.
(I was not, however, arc welding, which would have been nuts.)

Wish I had construction pics of those days, but I was no photographer before the digital age.
I have no photos of my first 6 cars & only maybe 4 of my first 6 bikes. No photos at all of the custom paint jobs I did.

Nowadays you can take & post pics nearly as fast as thought. That part's changed a lot.

But the tradition of home-built jobs is pretty much the same except for the scale of things. There's a lot more of us now.

 

I dont know if there is more of us or are we just more aware of how many of us there are?

 

Painted this coupe in my driveway with a 2 hp compressor - who needs a paint booth!

 

The power of the world wide web and now we can interact like never before imagined. What a good thing it can be, allowing us to share our love of our hobby with people all over the world.

 

I'll be using an HVLP turbine system So no compressor at all
And my garage will be the paint booth.
Or a temporary tarp garage on the pad out front

 

Carport plus about $65 worth of Walmart Rustoleum. It draws a lot of compliments from wimmen

 

Still working to improve the efficiency of my paint transfer! I sweep up about as much as I get on the panels.