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Here's how to use a spraygun to paint your projects and make them look great. A spraygun is a lot faster than a paintbrush. The result looks a lot better too. No brush marks!
Make everything around you look shipshape and professional. A wise lady once told me "A project isn't finished til there's a "finish" on it. Get it?"
Any object tends to look like crap after it's been outside for a while. Metal rusts. Paint flakes off. Wood discolors and starts to crack. And the project you spent so much time on is yet another eyesore to irk the normal people.
A spraygun is the magic wand that will solve your problem. It really is just like magic.
Paint a multicolored object all one color, and it suddenly looks like a real thing, not some crap stuck together. Paint it white, black, or grey to match the theme of your surroundings, and suddenly it vanishes. It's become a part of the surroundings. No one would think of making you get rid of it.
I just made this metal hand truck look like part of the solution.
A few minutes ago it definitely looked like part of the problem.
Stuff you'll need:
Safety Glasses
Hearing Protection
Rubber Gloves
Filter Mask with organic vapor (charcoal) cartridge
Spraygun
Air Hose
Pressure Regulator
Paint
Solvent
Angle Grinder with Cup Brush
Wire Brush
Sticks, rags, and something ugly, rusty, and dry to paint.
Here's the motion you'll be making with your spraygun:
Make everything around you look shipshape and professional. A wise lady once told me "A project isn't finished til there's a "finish" on it. Get it?"
Any object tends to look like crap after it's been outside for a while. Metal rusts. Paint flakes off. Wood discolors and starts to crack. And the project you spent so much time on is yet another eyesore to irk the normal people.
A spraygun is the magic wand that will solve your problem. It really is just like magic.
Paint a multicolored object all one color, and it suddenly looks like a real thing, not some crap stuck together. Paint it white, black, or grey to match the theme of your surroundings, and suddenly it vanishes. It's become a part of the surroundings. No one would think of making you get rid of it.
I just made this metal hand truck look like part of the solution.
A few minutes ago it definitely looked like part of the problem.
Stuff you'll need:
Safety Glasses
Hearing Protection
Rubber Gloves
Filter Mask with organic vapor (charcoal) cartridge
Spraygun
Air Hose
Pressure Regulator
Paint
Solvent
Angle Grinder with Cup Brush
Wire Brush
Sticks, rags, and something ugly, rusty, and dry to paint.
Here's the motion you'll be making with your spraygun:
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The glasses keep paint droplets, flying dirt and wire bristles from hitting your eyes.
The mask keeps your lungs and brain from filling up with solvents and dirt.
The rubber gloves and long sleeves keep solvents from soaking in through your skin.
They also keep your hands skin-colored.
The jackhammer headphones preserve your hearing for future enjoyment. They also play mp3 lectures from the London School of Economics about how Instructables is awesome.
The mask keeps your lungs and brain from filling up with solvents and dirt.
The rubber gloves and long sleeves keep solvents from soaking in through your skin.
They also keep your hands skin-colored.
The jackhammer headphones preserve your hearing for future enjoyment. They also play mp3 lectures from the London School of Economics about how Instructables is awesome.
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But I guess when spraying an old rusty dumpster every fleck that lands on target is a spot to the good. Still in all if you are going to teach you might as well teach right.
I also tell people it all isn't in the wrist, wrist always keeps the gun perpendicular to the work, move at the shoulder, or beyond. But you were moving so fast I couldn't really tell what you were doing. But I do tell folks that it is all in the follow through. When you stop paint but keep on airing you follow through a little on each stroke. Really if you were going like that on one of my cars I'd have to beat you with a clue stick.
Also you could learn a thing or three about how to properly clean a paint gun. Let me guess that is one of those $9.99 Harbor Fright specials?
Anyhow I have to admit your dumpster does look better for you having painted it! It'd have looked OK if you'd rolled it too and you might have saved some paint.
First and foremost before starting to paint your car.Always hav won'te some chain long enough to ground the vehicle to the ground so static dust cling to your painted vehicle while it's wet.