This car I sprayed is not a Torana but a late model Commodore but you will be able to use the same tips for your Torry.
This topic is primarily for people who havent painted before but if you are experienced and want to add to any of this----- go for it.
The paint used was 2k and I wouldnt recomend you do this at home in suburbia as this paint can be deadly and you should only paint this stuff in a booth or well away from homes and people. Im lucky as Im on a property well away from Homes.
Ok here we go
Firstly
Get yourself a decent compressor as a small one bought from your hardware store will be pushing it.
Get yourself a decent spray gun, I use Devilbiss and I bought this one on ebay for $400.00 and i use a 1.3mm tip and use a pressure regulator on the gun for best results.
Another necessary peice of equipment is a Water/Oil trap to stop contamination getting to your gun and paintwork.
If you would like to make easy work out of sanding get yourself one of these, a wizzer or palm sander.
Notice the soft pad between the wizzer and the sand paper this pad allows you to sand contours without digging in the edge of the sander, helps smooth things out more gently.
Since the paint on this car was only faded and in reasonably good condition no primer was necessary.
The paint was sanded with 400grit on the wizzer just enough to take the gloss off the original paint being careful not to cut through on any corners or edges.
After sanding the car was masked up
Give around the door jambs a scuff with 400 grit scotchbright pad. Dont use your kitchen green ones as these are to coarse, go get some at a paint dealer.
OK now the car is sanded. scuffed and masked up its time to clean everthing including the shed.
I normally wet the floor first to eliminate dust flying about then i proceed to work on the car itself.
Dust the car down first and then clean the surface with Prep wash, this will remove grease and silicon fron the surface.
Apply with a spray bottle, wipe over surface with a clean rag and wipe off with another clean rag before it dries. Do not touch the surface with anything else at this stage.
This is what you'll get on your clean rag, as you can see its not what you want in your paint so keep cleaning until there is no more stain on your rag.
Now its time to prepare the paint mix, this is what you'll need, ensuring your mixing container is clean.
Stir paint for thoroughly before mixing hardener and thinners, Wear latex gloves when handling 2k as the isocyanates in the paint can get through your skin and poison you.
Mix paint according to instruction and make sure you use a mixing stick that is calibrated for your paint system.
Another safety first peice of equipment is your face mask. It must be rated to filter organic vapours and should have the following colour coding. DO NOT USE ANYTHING LESS THAN THIS if spraying 2 pack.
Ensure you put new filter pads over the cartidges before you begin, as you can see in the next pic just how effective these are at catching fine particular matter.
Better in the filter than your lungs
Get dressed for the party, as i said earlier the less paint that gets on you the better so cover up and cover up well.
Now its time to set up your gun.
Fill the gun with paint using a fine paint strainer and set the guns pressure to 2 bar on the pressure regulator, do this with the trigger half open ( allowing air to escape but not paint)
Set trigger stop and fan pattern and test spray a short shot about 200mm away from a test board and note the spray pattern.
Adjust gun to suit, try to get a nice oval pattern that is about 8 inches high and 1 1/2 inches wide with no heavy run points in the pattern.
Ok, Once the gun is set its time to tack the surface of the car.
Make sure you have latex gloves on when doing this nect procedure as the oil in your finger tips can contaminate the surface causing fish eyes in your paint.
Using a new tack rag lightly wipe the entire car starting from the centre of the Roof turret and working out and down the car, rotate the tack rag surface occasionally as you do this.
Now what ever you do do not touch the car with anything else before painting.
Ok Now your ready to paint.
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