Spray painting a car at home

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Originally Posted by rusty_nail

hey mate i did a full respray in a farm shed with drop sheets hung to stop the breeze, it worked a treat. make sure your spray area is out of the breeze though, because any small amount of wind will make your spray job VERY hard and less consistent. see here, this was my experience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-r_RLPd-ac

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Yeah mate, I learnt that the hard way last year. :D
It's gota be a sunny,non windy day. So, I would have to wait for the perfect day. Today is good, but not hot enough I reckon.
I'll wait for a hot summer day with zero wind. That will make sure the geriatric dude won't come outside. :)

Cheers
Dom

P.S. Thanx for uploading the video. :)

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Originally Posted by MudRunnerTD

Nah I don't think he has any grounds to get you in trouble . If you use a tent then there is no claim of damage from overspray mist, no bugs landing in your wet paint. Good to go.

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I'll make sure it's a day that's so quiet and windless that my neighbour will have trouble breathing in his bed without his oxygen. :)

Cheers mate.

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Originally Posted by rusty_nail

hey mate i did a full respray in a farm shed with drop sheets hung to stop the breeze, it worked a treat. make sure your spray area is out of the breeze though, because any small amount of wind will make your spray job VERY hard and less consistent. see here, this was my experience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-r_RLPd-ac

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Hey Nic great vid mate. How many days in the shed was that? Did you use a gopro or something? A lot of work in the bonnet mate. Good job mate.

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Originally Posted by MudRunnerTD

Hey Nic great vid mate. How many days in the shed was that? Did you use a gopro or something? A lot of work in the bonnet mate. Good job mate.

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we did it in 5 days pulling nearly 10 hour days mate. it was like 40c outside and even hotter in the shed. we had alotta breeze to contend with too, you can see the plastic drop sheet blowing back and forth in the video. yeah we filmed it on 3 cameras i think? 1 was a gopro the others were just regular cameras with internal hdds(one had a 60GB hdd and when plugged into power could pretty much record for the whole day on a tripod was real neat. i paid the bloke 2k for the pain job, plus i spent about $300 on lighting, power and sheets etc. it was certainly alotta work though!

here is the original build thread if you wanted to see the finished product again lol

I didn't even think to see if it was illegal in Australia I actually sprayed my car a couple of weeks ago

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Originally Posted by Sarah newbie

I didn't even think to see if it was illegal in Australia I actually sprayed my car a couple of weeks ago

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It is not. Just few numnuts that happens to be your neighbours makes a noise about it while having no clue about what is real environment pollution is. They are usually geriatrics with mental health issues(at least in my case) :)

Of course, you don't wanna spray a vehicle every second day in your backyard.
That will have a good chance of annoying somebody. :)