Static charge on car
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the gchain around the axle thing or grounding to the ground of an outlet or anything of that nature is a myth and does not work. while it sounds like it will, it has been tested with absolutely no difference either way. nothing shows static charge like spraying white through an airbrush onto a black panel. you can literally see the static field on the panel as the fine white overspray will stick in crazy patterns. the waterbased cleaners are helpful but the big thing is humidity. humidity kills static. bring the humidity of your booth up. if your in a low humidity area, wet the booth floor down. this will help bigtime but it does work better in the summer than winter since the water evaps slower.
[b]RatStang wrote:[/b]
[quote]Well technically Endust is a Mixture of odorless mineral spirits and Trichloroethane (Chlorothene).Only thing that would worry me about using it is the Butane propellant might leave a dry powdery residue.
.[/quote]The Endust is only misted on a clean towel, it doesn’t even feel damp, trust me. there’s no transfer of anything-
except dust clinging to the rag. It really knocks the static off, especially on plastic parts.
Everyone I know that has tried it liked it.
Like I said, I’ve been useing only Endust for all my tacking for over 10 yrs now.That’s my final answer. (and I’m sticking to it) :exci
i use 6385 plastic surface cleaner anti stat been thinking of taking a chain an putting it around my neck for getting in this business though 😛 😛 😛 an i love my old dirty tac racks 😛
[b]ryanbrown999 wrote:[/b]
[quote]Nick, paintbooths in the States run on slight positive pressure. When we got our Quads installed the guy from Junair told me about the differences between booths in the UK and here. Funny how some things are so different. How much negitive pressure are you’ll supposed to run?[/quote]The general advice over here is to run at around 10 Pascals of neg pressure, which is only a fraction of a PSI. I’m running the booth pictured below, and if it goes into positive pressure for longer than a few minutes, an alarm will sound. If no action is taken it’ll eventually shut itself down, such is the concern here for the dangers of positive pressure.
The reasoning behind it is that if your booth is running positive, then any leaks could cause isocyanates to seep into the ‘shop. By running slightly negative, you get the slight disadvantage of dust maybe being drawn in, but no risk of toxins killing your panel beaters. Personally I’d rather keep my booth dust free, but I can’t paint anything if my prep guys are dead! :lol1
[IMG]http://i321.photobucket.com/albums/nn385/Duluxdude/Work/DSCF0037edit.jpg[/IMG]
[b]JCClark wrote:[/b]
[quote][b]RatStang wrote:[/b]
[quote]Well technically Endust is a Mixture of odorless mineral spirits and Trichloroethane (Chlorothene).Only thing that would worry me about using it is the Butane propellant might leave a dry powdery residue.
.[/quote]The Endust is only misted on a clean towel, it doesn’t even feel damp, trust me. there’s no transfer of anything-
except dust clinging to the rag. It really knocks the static off, especially on plastic parts.
Everyone I know that has tried it liked it.
Like I said, I’ve been useing only Endust for all my tacking for over 10 yrs now.That’s my final answer. (and I’m sticking to it) :exci[/quote]
Not everyone likes it :exci :exci :exci :exci
I went to a clinic for pinstriping, and you should see what happens to striping enamel when static builds up on a plastic part. The paint literally jumps off the brush onto the surface.
The instructor showed us by blowing into his thumb on the other hand from where he was striping. Had us all going real good. Until he showed that it did it regardless of what he did with his appendages.
He showed me the remedy was to spray it down with Windex, and wipe. No more static.
I don’t know why it works, but it does. Pretty much just ammonia, and water.
[b]Andy T wrote:[/b]
[quote][b]ryanbrown999 wrote:[/b]
[quote]Nick, paintbooths in the States run on slight positive pressure. When we got our Quads installed the guy from Junair told me about the differences between booths in the UK and here. Funny how some things are so different. How much negitive pressure are you’ll supposed to run?[/quote]The general advice over here is to run at around 10 Pascals of neg pressure, which is only a fraction of a PSI. I’m running the booth pictured below, and if it goes into positive pressure for longer than a few minutes, an alarm will sound. If no action is taken it’ll eventually shut itself down, such is the concern here for the dangers of positive pressure.
The reasoning behind it is that if your booth is running positive, then any leaks could cause isocyanates to seep into the ‘shop. By running slightly negative, you get the slight disadvantage of dust maybe being drawn in, but no risk of toxins killing your panel beaters. Personally I’d rather keep my booth dust free, but I can’t paint anything if my prep guys are dead! :lol1
[IMG]http://i321.photobucket.com/albums/nn385/Duluxdude/Work/DSCF0037edit.jpg[/IMG][/quote]
Andy i have seen that picture somewhere before ?? was your bodyshop featured in a bodyshop mag ???
[quote][b]nick@dunsdale wrote:[/b]
Andy i have seen that picture somewhere before ?? was your bodyshop featured in a bodyshop mag ???[/quote]
Not that I know of.I have posted that picture up before though, on a couple of places if I remember rightly 🙂
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