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Re: painting car with a foam brush #21
Ogre1 Allan Ogilvie Melbourne Victoria, Australia 1977 MG MGB "Greenb"	Posted: August 29, 2012 07:05PM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 1,332

Hire a compressor and gun. Easier, faster and provides a finish that is easier to flat no matter how bad your technique is. Visit Autobody 101 and beg borrow and steal an air compressor. Auto paint dries way to fast for a foam brush and the brush will dry as you paint resulting in a lot of dragging and a lot of brushes.

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Re: painting car with a foam brush #22
DrewM Drew Maddock 74 MGB roadster, Southern California, USA	Posted: August 29, 2012 07:18PM Registered: 7 years ago Posts: 5,613

Wow, Curtis, your car and my car look like twins. I just love my white cars and own three different ones, but only one is an MGB roadster with chrome luggage rack and Minator wheels like yours.

Drew Maddock
Pasadena, California

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Re: painting car with a foam brush #23
steveo77 Steve Groh Fairview, Texas, USA 1977 MG MGB 2002 Chevrolet Corvette	Posted: August 29, 2012 10:08PM Registered: 10 months ago Posts: 52

So this thread caught my eye...figured Id chime in for any help I could be.

I did auto paint and body work all the way through highschool, college and have worked for some professional shops. I am doing all the bodywork on my B. Paint is much like anything else, 90% of the work is in the prep. The biggest part of the other 10% is quality painting equipment and a perfectly clean environment to paint. As I currently lack the perfectly clean environment, I am taking my B to a shop to be painted and cleared. I will have an excellant product at the end after my time on the bodywork, primer and 1700-2000 in paintshop costs.

I would suggest, like the others that you take it to MAACO or something similar. If you truely do have the body ready for paint you will be very dissapointed with any roller applications. Granted, I'm used to seeing only pro jobs but I have never seen a roller application that I liked.

Also, if you use spray cans there are problems with this. A spray gun does 2 things very very well to give you a nice coat of paint. First, it atomizes the paint much finer than anything a can of spraypaint can produce. The other thing that it does is lays down a nice "fan" pattern that a can cannot produce. A can will only produce a circle pattern.

Lastly, when you spray a car the environment must be VERY clean. Any dust or dirt floating in the air will contaminate the topcoat and show poorly.

Good Luck! Hope whatever you do turns out nice!

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Re: painting car with a foam brush #24
Simon Simon Clowes Salem , Oregon, USA 1979 MG MGB "Big Red"	Posted: August 30, 2012 08:27AM Registered: 14 years ago Posts: 7,512

This car was left in the sun for 4 hours then rattle canned - won best prepared car at two race meetings the first month out.

Editted becasue I cannot type straight.

1979 Roadster (Big Red) daily driver.
unknown GT somewhere in the future.
09 Accent

Don't got to bed made - stay up all night plotting revenge

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Re: painting car with a foam brush #25
Aphyle2012 Eric Pyle Shenandoah Valley, VA, USA 1968 Triumph TR250 1971 MG MGB MkII	Posted: August 30, 2012 08:46AM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 244

Some of the links that I ran across mentioned a product called Fleet Penetrol. Lowes has it by the quart. It apparently is a self-leveling additive that extends the drying time and allows the paint to flow and remove brush and roller marks. Not tried it yet, but have some "experimental" panels to play with this fall.

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Re: painting car with a foam brush #26
mgbrv8 Dave Hetrick USA	Posted: August 30, 2012 09:26AM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 266

In reply to # 2157210 by BWO Ironskull Your best bet, go to Maaco. We got my brothers car painted there for $175 and it looked great! We did all the work to make sure the body was good. Do all the filler and taping yourself, don't let them do it. Then just let them spray it. Honestly, it looks like a $2,000 paint job, just probably wont last as long but it looks great!

They will try to get you for around $450. Just tell them you called other Maaco's and they quoted you $175, will they match it.

hope that helps

A friend of mine waxes hi maaco paint job every other weekend and it still looks great ten yrs later. ;-)

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Re: painting car with a foam brush #27
Quepos1 Jere Land Willis, Texas, USA	Posted: August 30, 2012 10:35AM Registered: 1 year ago Posts: 109

The name of the game in any painting regardless of whether it is car, boat, house or anything else you can think of is, preparation, preparation, preparation. Did I mention that preparation is kind od important when painting? Maaco will do a good job is spraying paint but they simply spray right over what is there for their cheap price. I have seen dirt dauber nest sprayed over as well as rust and chrome.

If you are willing to strip the car, sand and prime, they will do a pretty good job. I have seen people paint cars and trucks with rustoleum paint as well as cans of spray paint for automobiles that looked great but they all had one thing in common and that was? PREPARATION

1974 Red MG B
2001 Ford F 250 Powerstroke
2008 Volvo S 80

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Re: painting car with a foam brush #28
gooser Drake Myers Danville Va, USA	Posted: August 30, 2012 12:11PM Registered: 5 years ago Posts: 6,915

dirt dauber nest. i like that one.

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Re: painting car with a foam brush #29
curtis7420 Curtis Wright Univerisity City, MO, USA 1975 MG MGB "The "B"" 2000 Chrysler Town & Country 2003 Toyota Highlander 4WD	Posted: August 30, 2012 04:22PM Registered: 2 years ago Posts: 1,899

In reply to # 2157409 by steveo77

Also, if you use spray cans there are problems with this. A spray gun does 2 things very very well to give you a nice coat of paint. First, it atomizes the paint much finer than anything a can of spraypaint can produce. The other thing that it does is lays down a nice "fan" pattern that a can cannot produce. A can will only produce a circle pattern.

the spray cans were for under the hood, trunk and door jams...and then later, the engine bay

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