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Leaving primer outside? (or building a shed to put the car in?)

Started by _brocky2011_ , Dec 02 2011 05:09 PM
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#1 _brocky2011_

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Posted 02 December 2011 - 05:09 PM

Quick question, that's probably been covered before, but after a quick search I can't find anything the I'd be confident in. I have a LH Torana that I'm restoring, painting the original Jade green, but don't have a shed, I only have a tarp/car cover. Just wondering how I would go sanding back to bare metal, priming, and protecting it. I've sanded the front guard back to metal and primer it, but it's living in the house haha.

Seeing as the whole car can't live in the house (well, it probably can, I'm a concrete cutter haha) I was wondering what the best way to sand the car is? Sand-prime-leave outside under the car cover, sand-cover in fish oil-leave outside, sand-prime-paint panel by panel? Obviously I'll do the prep work/body repair at the appropriate time, I just need a rough idea of the best process. I don't want to spend my Christmas holidays sanding and priming, only to have to start again when I finish.

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Posted 02 December 2011 - 09:18 PM

Use a good 2k epoxy primer, leave it outside as long as you like.

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Posted 02 December 2011 - 10:01 PM

The alternative might be to hop on ebay and purchase something like this:
http://www.ebay.com....#ht_2681wt_1139

This will let you work on the car out of the weather, if you have the room. This one is 9x3m there are others that are only 6x3 as well.

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Posted 03 December 2011 - 02:59 PM

The alternative might be to hop on ebay and purchase something like this:
http://www.ebay.com....#ht_2681wt_1139

This will let you work on the car out of the weather, if you have the room. This one is 9x3m there are others that are only 6x3 as well.

cheers
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Cheers.

I've seen those shelters down at repco for a decent price, my only concern was they would act like a green house, high humidity?
2K primer might be the best way to go, might be my christmas present to myself
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