Paint and Body Fox Body Painting 101

RaggedGT said:

Dave, can I use a two part type epoxy (like pba) to repair some damage /scrapes and a little cracking on a fiberglass bed?

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Kind of. I wouldn’t though.

Cracks will need a regular fg repair.

Fg is just a pita, you’ll have to accept it. There aren’t really any good shortcuts.

JD08 said:

Not as close as I'd like to be right now. 1000 miles.

Perhaps I should word it as second least expensive way?

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Do you mind a phone call from me? It’ll just take a few minutes to help you through this.

pm me if that’s good for you.

Ok, follow up on the cordless buffer.

It took a little to get used to at first. I was so used to having a chord to balance the buffer that it felt kind of awkward at first. This said, I can say now that I’m used to it, I absolutely love it. I can take it anywhere and not have to deal with the hassle of a chord. Excellent.

I bought an additional battery, I went aftermarket. It cost just a little over a third of the cost of a dewalt battery. I also got an aftermarket dual battery charger, it was slightly less than half the cost of the dewalt.

Let me tell you, both of them work great. I don’t notice any difference between the dewalt batteries and the aftermarket one. They have roughly the same run time and charge time.

The charger charges seemingly just as quick as the single dewalt charger that came with the buffer.

So nothing crappy to say about the cheap stuff.

If you use a buffer regularly, you’ll want a third battery. I haven’t had a day that I completely used up the third battery. It came close once or twice that had me thinking four would be a better number though.

On the painting front, I paid off the first Sata 5500’s and mini jet. So I bought one more 5500. This completes my set of guns I use for daily painting. The price came down $75 for my newest gun. It cost me $875. It has the 1.3I tip. It will be my new pearl/metallic gun.

Hopefully these will be my retirement guns. I intend to paint till I’m roughly 72ish. So 14 years. Sata’s are quality enough to make it.