Monday, July 13, 2009

Spray Painting Your Car With Aerosol Spray Cans - Bodywork

By Laney Ball

Numerous people may suggest to you that utilising aerosol spray paint to paint your car is not a good choice. It's true that youre not likely to get that car manufacturers perfect finish on it, but you still can get several good results. The essential thing is that you buy a good quality paint, and most important you use it properly. There're some techniques to using aerosol spray paints. They're not hard to learn and are well-worth the effort.

First of all you will need to learn if you are just touching up a particular area on your car, or if you're going to re-paint the whole vehicle. If you're doing a touchup then you are going to have to pay very close attention to color matching, where as in a complete paint job this isnt quite as essential.

Assuming youre going to be doing a touch-up you would need a few items. You'll require a couple of repair items such as sandpaper, putty and a knife. If the region you are working on is rough or chipped you would need to sand it down smooth. If there're pit marks you will have to fill them with the putty then smooth this out.

You would need a good car wash detergent, and degreaser, even if you're doing simply a touchup, it must be utterly clean.

You'll need a couple of paper and masking tape. Take the time to be diligent about covering different regions that could possibly be in the line of fire when youre apply your aerosol spay paint. Even a very light breeze can cause a over spray onto your chrome, windows, etc.

You need to pick out your primer, color and finish aerosol spray paints. Make sure to do a color test by doing a really average area first. And then you'll be able to continue.

Try a few sprays on some cardboard first to be sure you don't get any squirts or blobs, and the paint is spraying equally. Don't forget to shake the can for at the least 2 or 3 mins so it's well mixed, or you won't get an even color.

Keep the spray moving as you press down on the nozzle. Do not hold it in one spot or you'll get runs. It is much better to use a couple of really light coats, then one or 2 heavy ones. If you apply it too thick its going to be very uneven and extremely obvious. It may seem like this is really time consuming, but not nearly as much as it'll be if you've to re-sand the paint off and start again.

Shake the can of aerosol spray paint every couple of minutes in order to keep it well distributed.

Your primer and your top coat must be utilised with as much care as your color is. With the correct application of your aerosol spray paint, your car could end up really awesome looking, and all of the work you put into it will have been well worth it.

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