How to paint the car with their hands

Do you want to update your own paint favorite "iron horse", but did not speak any skills or any experience in this matter? Most read our step by step instructions and safely get to work!

Before you begin to self-coloring of cars, it is necessary to hold a series of preparatory activities. To begin, wash the car - carefully remove the body of car dirt and dust (to remove fat / bitumen stains, use a special vehicle either or mild solvent - white spirit). After that, remove from car bumpers - front and rear, the antenna, the decorative grille, headlights and side lights, turn signals and other external luminous element. All removed parts, wash, clean the rust and dry.

The next step - cleaning damage the paintwork of cars. Major defects in the body - the deep dents, cracks and chipped paint - bright chalk mark or a quick-drying acrylic paint from an aerosol can. Then again, inspect the machine to detect subtle defective seats, repeat the procedure if necessary mark. It is best to inspect the "iron horse" is not in the room and on the street. Next, make a sweep of the detected defects to the metal with a chisel and nazhdachki with different grain - use sandpaper labeled 60, 80, 100. The edges of the defective surfaces should be as smooth as possible, so at the end of grinding walk hand on the treated area - you should not miss even the smallest burrs, jagged edges and roughness. After performing stripping defects thoroughly clean the car from dust, wipe the treated area of \u200b\u200bcotton cloth that has been soaked in white spirit, leave before full drying.

After that, you can start aligning body defective places. To do this, you will need a polyester synthetic auto shutty with fine-grained texture and spatulas - metal and rubberized. Carefully stir the putty with the hardener (as a rule, they are sold in a set) in a small amount, adhering to the proportions specified on the bank. Consider that automotive polyester putty have a sufficiently limited "viability", therefore, after mixing the components, immediately proceed to apply a mixture into defective places. Work promptly after 5-6 minutes from the beginning of the kneading putty will begin to gather with lumps and will become unsuitable for use. To achieve a smooth smooth surface, apply a mixture with fast cross movements and be sure to a thin layer. If necessary, putpuckle can be applied in two or three layers, but only after complete grazing of each previous one, otherwise it can crack and give shrinkage. Puttoothing of the car is a delicate and very responsible preparatory "event", on which it depends on both the appearance of the "iron horse" and its aerodynamic qualities.

After complete hardening of the covered places (it takes about 40-50 minutes at a temperature of + 20-22ºС) Check the readiness of the surface to grinding as follows: Throw the treated area with dry grinding paper with marking 80, if the putty does not stick to the sandpaper, and crept on fine powder - So, you can start a full-fledged grinding process. To stripping a sweeping surface, use elaborate skins with a different grain dispersion - gradually from 120 to 600. Grind the necessary areas only "dry", the falling water to the putty adversely affects its structure and, accordingly, subsequent quality. At the end of the grinding, clean the covered areas from dust, wipe the soft rag, in advance moistened in the White Spirit, and dry well. Then apply a layer of light gray primer from an aerosol cylinder with a small "coming" on the untreated surface of the body - this will help assess the quality of the processed areas.

After that, with the help of paper and painting tape, skate the bodies that are not subject to staining. Sand the entire paint coating machine with sandpaper with marking 1200 to the state of homogeneous mattness. Repeat the entire body of the car from dust, once again wipe the rags with White spirit and dry well. At this stage, it is important to maintain the cleanliness of the surface of the body up to the moment of direct dyeing of the car. For self painting, you need to purchase enamel with the possibility of drying without baking.

Next, proceed to the preparation of the work room. Ideal if it is well ventilated and spacious. Before the painting room you need to remove qualitatively (special attention is paid to the ceiling - the waxing of the cobweb and the raised stucco will switch all your efforts to NO), and the floor to wet the floor. An important nuance: before the start of staining the compressor must be placed outside the work room! Be sure to take care of your own equipment, safety glasses and respirator.

Now you can proceed to direct staining of the car. Distribute enamel with a solvent to the required consistency according to the instructions, then resolve it through the mesh funnel or the cropped offshore stocking. Flowing enamel Pour the paint pistol into the reservoir, use the model with the nozzle number 14. Start painting from the roof of the car, withstand the distance between the machine and the paint tool - it should be about 150-250 mm. Color the car with smooth movements in two or three layers, the approximate time of the intermediate drying is 15 minutes. Do not hurry - the full depth and brightness of the color appears, as a rule, only after applying the second layer of enamel. The painted car completely dries in 30-36 hours at a temperature of + 20-22ºС.

Independent painting of the car is quite painting work. Take carefulness, you have to work well, but believe me, it is worthwhile - in the end, your efforts will pay for a hundredfold!