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Re: What's a good paint job worth?
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Posted by Steve F. on May 08, 2004 at 06:22:43 from (64.254.197.46):
In Reply to: What's a good paint job worth? posted by Steve on May 07, 2004 at 21:58:18:
Yeah, 650$ sounds like too much if you have runs in the paint. Did you buy the paint or did he? Did you remove and mask the wheels or did he? Did you reassemble everything or did he? If he did none of these things you definitely got took. It depends some on what kind of paint he used also. If he used a really good quality paint system (which I am doubting he did) you could easily have over $300 just in paint. I've painted quite a few tractors and it is hard work. As others pointed out the prep work is the hard part. Don't get me wrong the painting part is no picnic either. If you take your time and do a good job it can be very time consuming. Bottom line is it sounds like too much for the job he did. I would insist that he fix the runs. If he has any idea what he is doing it is not that difficult.
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