Got my old job back – kinda
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I know what you mean mate,i would rather be busy as the day goes quicker.at our place i have to take the job from start to finish and i love that as it keeps your skills up on all fronts,ive no doubt if i just painted all day i would be pretty good at it as you need to paint all the time to improve.i did a shift system when i did my apprentice at my dads garrage in early nineties,i loved the 6 till 2 in summer but not the 2 till 10 lol.hope it works out for ya mate,carl.
Well my first shift back went well. I’m currently trying to bring myself around ready for the next one that starts in a couple of hours. My body clock is shot at the minute 😆
So after not stepping foot in a booth for 9 months they decided to take it easy on me – my first three jobs were tri-stage reds. Then an awful orange/red pearl colour (Ford Mars Red) and a blend down a side in a very fine metallic. Nothing like breaking me in gently :blink:
They’d had to buy some guns since I left (obviously I took mine away when they sacked me!) For base they’re using a battered 3000RP that looks like they’ve been taking the fluid nozzle off with a hammer and chisel. Not the best pattern in the world! Plus the digital gauge doesn’t work so they set the pressure “by ear” :rofl
Needless to say I used my own gun for base….
They have invested in a Supernove EVO 1.3HD for clear though which I was straight at home with. Only managed one tiny run out of 20 panels so I’m happy with that after so long out of the game.
I think the booth needs a good clean out though!! I painted a front end on a Mitsubishi in tri stage pearl red and it looked as though someone had been sweeping up while I was clearing :blush: Plus chunks of dried paint that’d flaked off the plastic sheeting that was flapping around on the walls. If I get a spare hour tonight I’ll give it a quick tidy out as the job’s hard enough without dealing with all that.
Didnt know you started at our place ? Lol
I used to use company guns for about 5 mins then thought gotta get my own,i now have more guns than the company ! Do you just mask and paint or do you prep the primer and stuff too ?[quote=”Andy T” post=32552]Well my first shift back went well. I’m currently trying to bring myself around ready for the next one that starts in a couple of hours. My body clock is shot at the minute 😆
So after not stepping foot in a booth for 9 months they decided to take it easy on me – my first three jobs were tri-stage reds. Then an awful orange/red pearl colour (Ford Mars Red) and a blend down a side in a very fine metallic. Nothing like breaking me in gently :blink:
They’d had to buy some guns since I left (obviously I took mine away when they sacked me!) For base they’re using a battered 3000RP that looks like they’ve been taking the fluid nozzle off with a hammer and chisel. Not the best pattern in the world! Plus the digital gauge doesn’t work so they set the pressure “by ear” :rofl
Needless to say I used my own gun for base….
They have invested in a Supernove EVO 1.3HD for clear though which I was straight at home with. Only managed one tiny run out of 20 panels so I’m happy with that after so long out of the game.
I think the booth needs a good clean out though!! I painted a front end on a Mitsubishi in tri stage pearl red and it looked as though someone had been sweeping up while I was clearing :blush: Plus chunks of dried paint that’d flaked off the plastic sheeting that was flapping around on the walls. If I get a spare hour tonight I’ll give it a quick tidy out as the job’s hard enough without dealing with all that.[/quote]
Hey Andy what gun and setup did you use on your tri-stage reds? BTW Great to see your back painting in a real oven again!
[quote=”Scoobycarl” post=32553]Didnt know you started at our place ? Lol
I used to use company guns for about 5 mins then thought gotta get my own,i now have more guns than the company ! Do you just mask and paint or do you prep the primer and stuff too ?[/quote]At the minute there’s only two of us on nights so we’re just mucking in doing whatever needs doing. Normally though the painter just paints.
I kind of got the place going from the ground up 5 years ago and we found this to be the best way for production: 2-3 guys do all the prep work and priming, then mask the cars off as much as possible before lining them up in a queue in front of the booth. The painter just has to pull the car in, throw a plastic sheet over it, panel wipe, tack off & throw on the paint. It’s then slid across on rails to the adjacent oven to bake. When it’s done another guy pulls it out, de-masks, polishes & fits up where required.
It wouldn’t work so well in a crash repair shop but since most of our jobs take around 2 hrs prep at the most it keeps things going in a constant cycle.
[quote=”Xchaser” post=32557]Hey Andy what gun and setup did you use on your tri-stage reds? BTW Great to see your back painting in a real oven again![/quote]
Thanks mate. It’s good to be back!
I’m using a Sata NR2000 HVLP 1.3. It lays the DeBeer 900+ (water) base down really well and, more importantly, blends just kinda happen without any effort at all. I’ve always found it to be an easy base to blend out, just as I found with autowave, but since moving from my previous base gun (Iwata W400WBX) it’s got even easier.
Nice one andy t, good to see you back in your old job. Red alot of your posts (I like reading stuff posted by people in the uk).
I really like the wbx for basecoat but still on solvent and don’t really do the kind of work that you do so haven’t felt the need to find something else but defo prefer satas for clear and solid 2k’s while we have this nice weather.
Cheers
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