Quote Originally Posted by Itoldyouso View Post
John brings up a point that Jay (Hotrodpaint) and others have mentioned.....you are going to spend more on supplies than you ever thought. Every time we walk out of the paint store we have a little box and a tab of several hundred dollars. Thank God they throw in the paint sticks and strainers!

I don't know if it has been mentioned in this thread, I may have missed it, but you want DRY air coming out of your compressor. Drain the tank before you start, if you have an inline dryer bleed it, and maybe even use one of those little ball dryers that screw right before the gun. With humidity in Summer you have to do all you can to keep moisture from getting into the paint.

Don

I didn't even touch on the cost of supplies. Just to spray paint cost me in the neighborhood of a thousand plus bucks - and that's only the equipment which included a 50' copper line and valving, two dryers, a supplied air personal safety system, two separate paint guns(primer and finish), shoot suits, face masks. Then there was the 7 quarts of DuPont BC paint at ~$150/quart, the 6 quarts of CC at $50/quart plus the required reducers for more $$. A gallon of Rage Gold plastic filler was ~$40 then the 4 quarts of epoxy primer at~$50 quart and the dozens of sheets of sandpapers at $1-$2 a sheet (80 - 2000 grit). Then there's the cut and buff materials - a 7" buffer at $250, pads at $12-$15 each and the Presta 1500 and swirl removers at $25 each. And of course 3-4 rolls of 3M 'green' masking tape at $7 each. And that's just the big stuff I can think of right now

Every time I walked into my supplier, his big smile told me that he was going to be able to pay the employees out of the gross that day instead of his pocket