New to the forum. Hi.
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I noticed this refinish site while searching the net for a forum for Paint Sprayers. I see this is more of an US site and living in the UK a few things are different, just wanted to say hello and am looking forward to searching the site for interesting topics and information. Cheers
Welcome to the site. We have our fair share of UK painters here as well so you should feel right at home
:welcWelcome from a fellow Brit :welc
How about giving us a bit of background on you and your business 🙂
I am a Canadian, Hi from Canada. :welc
:welc from Lone Rock , Wisconsin
Hi andyt i see you post quite a bit. Im 30 years old been painting cars since i left school, obviously after my 3 apprenticeship years of cleaning paint room floors and scotching and da ing new panels.lol. I dont own my own business I work for busy bodyshop called A.B Crush down here in the sunny kent, mainly insurance/manufactuers approvals and import centre work How about yourself?
The work I do now is probably closest to a refurb centre than anything.
I run the paintshop for a large multi channel car retailer (posh name for a car supermarket :lol1 ). We tidy up all the cars we buy in by repairing all the minor dents, scuffs, scratches and stone chip damage. We do lots of bumpers, and many front ends, averaging 2 or 3 panels per car. We don’t do any crash repair stuff here as that’s not the kind of stock we want to be selling to our customers, but with good quality second hand cars getting harder and harder to come by, we’re doing more work than we used to when we opened 4 years ago.
Before that I’ve been around a bit, everything from mobile smart repair to a dealers crash repair centre, a back street bodyshop to a place specialising in aftermarket spoilers and body kits.
AndyT,
Our paint rep talks about places like car giant he tells how mad the operation is, busy busy I guess, push-through ovens? Do you just paint or rotate with prep and polish? I mainly paint as we have preppers but have to polish our own work, and prep when the preppers cant keep up. What paint you on? J
Yes, we’ve got a single Burntwood push-through. It’s a bit smaller than I’d like sometimes, but it does the job.
I do the majority of the painting. I did used to rotate with prep, but it seems to flow much better with me spraying all the time. Plus it’s winter and I’m the boss, so I stay in the nice warm booth 😆 We’ve an old guy to do the de-masking & polishing, and three guys on prep. Most of the time they can keep up with me but there’s always plenty of other stuff to do for the odd half hour when there’s nothing ready to paint.
We’re on DeBeer 900 and I absolutely love the stuff, especially now they’ve added 13 high-strength tinters which have significantly increased covering power. I’m using their budget clear (8-214) at the minute. It’s great for the price, but they do have better ones available.
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