Kent Buehrer
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If you do it for profit, then yes you do. If for personal use, then you are exempt up to 2 vehicles a year.
If you don’t have a booth of some type, you have to use a paint cup that is 3oz or less and you are restricted to 9 sqft of painted area.
This mandate is designed to drive the mobile painters out of business even though we use a fraction of the material and use guns that have a higher transfer efficiency than the RP’s that most body shops use.
In the past couple of days, when I open the site, the username is someone else. I need to log-off and then log-on again. Just an FYI.
There are a lot of great thoughts here, thanks. Bondo has a good point in that the primer may not have been completely cured and could have been sucking up some of the color and as I piled the color on that just added more solvent.
It was very cold, 34 with a 20mph wind. I did use my heat lamp but it had a hard time getting the area from 34-70 unless I put it right on top of the panel.
Jimmo, it didn’t feel grainy esp. when I tacked and left a furrow from the cloth. That area, I heated then sanded with 1000 and rebased. It sounds like a perfect storm of rushing things.
When I worked at Sea World with penguins and all the birds, the dead penquins would go into a big freezer. Check out this story from Discover magazine:
http://www.udel.edu/pbl/iceborers.html
Take a piece of what you cut off, use a heat gun to melt it and use a screwdriver or similar to spread it out onto the bumper. Being the same material it will make a solid repair. You can even embed mesh in front.
As a hack, I like to melt some mesh into the repair, sand the shiney spots and put SEM problem plastic on it.
I am curious why you think the Euro is a better product. I know it is significantly less expensive but other than that what would be your reason? I have used the Euro but only a couple times and didn’t feel it laid as nicely as the Turbo and certainly not as well as the Universal. I also thought it took longer to get of dust and cure compared to the Turbo. Any insight would be great. I have a gallon of the Euro going to waste.
Why doesn’t anyone seem to like the Turbo?
I would suggest you call Barry Kives, the owner of SPI and talk to him. He will be able to direct you to the one that meets your situation.
When I use WB primer, I find that the hair dryer works a lot better than a heat gun. Hair dryers put out a lot more air and less heat. It’s the air flow that is going to get the job done. I have even used a box fan to blow across the area. Just my 2 pennies worth.
Cash for Cornkers.
Do you see that as a right or wrong way to skin that cat?
I do understand the complexities of what you guys do daily and that experience is the best teacher. I was looking at this book as a way to get the basics of what is involved to create a foundation.
In my Diamont line, that color has 8 variants. So, black is not just black after all.