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Painting in the cold

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Stu in BC

10-14-2004 09:05:04




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Newbie, bare with me. I missed my summer restoration window with fence and decking work. I do still want to paint my MC crawler and my Oli Super 55.

Obviously painting is done in the winter, but is it something that I can do in my cold shop without heat? I would likely chose my days, but I can see me having to deal with 0 to -5c temperatures.

Any issues or hints for success? As always, T.I.A.

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Rusty Jones/ The Mower Ma

10-15-2004 15:34:02




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 Re: Painting in the cold in reply to Stu in BC, 10-14-2004 09:05:04  
If you live in any part of the frozen north, including the northern half of the U.S. and any part of Canada, you'd better give up on any ideas of spray painting anything until next summer! Finish the deck this year, do tractor next year! Oh, you can probably do a little bit of priming, but i wouldn't recomend it! Auto/ tractor paints aren't compatible with cold weather, thats why body shops build great insulated, air tight spray booths, furnace heated spray booths. so they don't have the vagaries of weather to contend with! You could build a booth like that, but the cost would be greater than if you had somebody else do the job! by: Rusty Jones

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Rusty Jones/ The Mower Ma

10-15-2004 15:33:41




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 Re: Painting in the cold in reply to Stu in BC, 10-14-2004 09:05:04  
If you live in any part of the frozen north, including the northern half of the U.S. and any part of Canada, you'd better give up on any ideas of spray painting anything until next summer! Finish the deck this year, do tractor next year! Oh, you can probably do a little bit of priming, but i wouldn't recomend it! Auto/ tractor paints aren't compatible with cold weather, thats why body shops build great insulated, air tight spray booths, furnace heated spray booths. so they don't have the vagaries of weather to contend with! You could build a booth like that, but the cost would be greater than if you had somebody else do the job! by: Rusty Jones

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Frank Stalfire

10-14-2004 20:03:42




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 Re: Painting in the cold in reply to Stu in BC, 10-14-2004 09:05:04  
Hi Stu
I work for Dupont and will give my 2 cents worth. I cannot think of anything good coming from this, sorry, first off if you use a catalyzed paint understand that catalist stops crosslinking at 55 degrees, if it's not catalized then you will be using a paint that dries by solvent evaporation and with temps so low you wont have that evaporation ar will have it at such a slow rate that you will see dye back or loss of DOI ( low gloss ) you should look into building a temporarry paint room, unless someone else has any other ideas.
Frank

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