Complete DIY Home Respray

Hopefully in a week or so i'll have taken delivery of my Mk1 rolling shell. Its currently red but the end idea is a full shell respray in Metallic Green. I'm hoping to complete this as home. I've done lots of spraying with cans on small parts in the past and a bit of celly on my old Nova in a base red colour so got a compressor and decent gun ready lined up and that job turned out alright so pretty confident on tackling this.

Just looking for some advice from people/anyone who has done a home spray job. At the least i'd like to do the engine bay, interior and underside myself with a view to doing the outside depending how this turns out.

Two basic questions firstly.

1. Should I stick to celly or use two pack? I have heard 2k contains isocyante and is poisonous but reading on here a few people have sprayed this at home? Can anyone give me correct info from this plus the pros and cons?

2.Does anyone have a good online parts supplier for painting equipment (stone chip, masks, overalls, gun wash, sandpaper etc)

Cheers
Simon

Buy Haynes Body repair manual [older yellow cover version] loads of painting tips , try Ebay for a copy . You do no that 2 pack and celly are now supposed to be banned ? But you can still get them from some suppliers , for bits try paints4u ………… Banned paints try Autopaints [google]

Oh don't just do the bits you mentioned , do the lot  

2 pack contain cyanide in the hardener, so not nice stuff. Out of the two I'd go for cellulose. If you do go 2P then you'd need a plastic suit, full face air fed respirator (not cheap), rubber gloves etc. Of course you can risk using without the safety gear but it IS a risk.

Cheers for the info and confirming what I already thought. I will see how I get on with the bits I feel happy enough spraying before tackling the outside. I want it to look good so hopefully by the time I have done all the other stuff I will have got the hand of it enough and be confident enough for the outside.

2 pack's not banned!     (yet, anyway)

Cellie's crap!  It's porous

You lacquer it. Think the advantage of cellulose is that it's much faster drying than, say 2 pack, so there's less chance of it picking up dust etc.  

I've read you can get non-isocyanite 2 pack, and an alternative might be acrylic.

cellulose isnt pourous lol, it was used for years on cars,

primer is pourous though.

I would love to do 2 pack at home for every repair, but to be honest, it would take me a week to setup, and then another week to pack up after, when i respray the whole car in one hit i will do it in two pack, so if thats what you are doing then do it.

But for 2 pack you will need.

2 x compressors @ ?250 each minimum
Airfed mask @ ?120 min (wilson)
Air breathing filter bank @ ?140 minimum (kestrel from sprayguns direct)
Air breathing low toxic air hose @ ?80
Some sort of extraction @ ?160 min (I have a 1500cfm extractor)
An airtight booth to work in so the iso cyanate doesnt escape into the rest of the garage this can cost as little as ?40 to make

SO the addition cost to using celly is… (saying you need 1 x extra compressor)

?790.

Also do not do it in a garage thats attatched to a house, as the iso's get through walls, The need for extraction is essential too.

Or you can go for celly,

which yes it isnt as durable, however, if you look after it, its fine.

But as you are going for metallic, its the celly laquer thats the crap stuff, the 2k laquer is far superior. But for solid non-metallic colours then celly is fine, get a good sealer on it after then a good wax to protect it form UV and celly looks lovely,

also, 2pack isnt even paint, its molecular structure is more like plastic.

Anyway,

Any other questions, just ask

2pack is a sprayable resin, not that it really matters, the main thing is the additional equipment you need and the extended drying time (unless you have a REALLY big oven on your cooker!) There's plenty of good celly spaying/finishing links, just Google it.

I thought they stopped selling celly?

You can still get it ! Try the web  :wink: