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Painting small parts

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Subject: Painting small parts
From: Mike Rambour <mikey@b2systems.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 11:46:24 -0800
   How does one go about painting a zillion small parts that go on a car ?

   I have finally glass beaded enough parts on my car to paint them and I 
spent yesterday painting them with my HVLP gun and getting paint 
everywhere.  I did things like leaf springs and shackles and other 
suspension parts.  I kept thinking there has to be a better way, the HVLP 
gun puts out way too much paint to be efficient on small parts.  I was 
thinking some of these parts would be perfect for a airbrush, but it would 
take a week to do them all.

   Years ago, I had what i think was called a Jamb gun, effectively a small 
paint gun with a small cup and smaller nozzle but the 2 guns I looked at 
last week at had small cups but still the same nozzles for car painting and 
would have given me the same problem.  The gun I have was perfect for the 
big parts like the frame.

   So how do you do it, airbrush and take forever or big gun and waste 
paint and get runs ?  Runs are ok once I get passed the wasting paint part 
since I am restoring this thing to drive and not show, I am just painting 
for protection not cosmetics.

        mike

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