Re: BigKev's 1954 Packard Clipper Deluxe Sedan

Posted by BigKev On 2009/4/21 0:54:39

Got my truck back today and it looks great. I had the shop also paint the front air dam on the truck to match the body color. At the trim level my truck comes with, it was black from factory. Looks much better body color.

Anyway with my truck back home I loaded up the '54 hood, all the primer, and paint supplies, and my paint gun and headed down to the college to shoot the primer. But when I got there I found out that the college had contracted to have the industrial air-compressors that provide all the air to the entire automotive wing of the college replaced/upgraded over spring break, and there were some SNAFUs. So they had no compressed air as they were behind schedule. Well, you are not going to get much work done in a body shop with no compressed air. So I just hauled everything back home. I will try again on Wednesday.

I bought the Eastwood Concourse paint gun. The interesting thing about this new gun is that it is a HVLP gun that is designed to run on 4cfm at 29psi. So it is purpose made to run on a compressor that most folks may have in their garage. I will have my instructor spray a few test panels with it and give me his impression. His shop is the one that repaired my truck, and also he paints all of John Force's NHRA cars. He was also on a couple episodes of Overhaulin where he and his shop painted the project cars. He uses all SATA ($$$) guns in his shop, so I will be curious to see what his professional opinion is of this very low CFM gun.

Hopefully it lives up the claims and the hobbyist will have access to a HVLP gun that doesn't require a hefty compressor.