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Originally Posted by Frankwhiteind
It is pretty cold where I am and even in my garage, which gets some heat, it is still only about 40 degrees. Should I paint or try to heat up the garage with a propane or electric heater?
I think I can do much better spraying with more time spent wetsanding. Any advice will be utilized...
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1. Regarding painting temperature - for what it's worth I wouldn't paint unless the room temperature can be maintained at a minimum of 70 degrees (and preferably 75+). Anything cooler and unhardened paint will tend to run and/or take forever to set up, and catalyzed paint may not chemically activate. I do however paint all year long by relying on heat lamps to control the surface temperature. Most recently I painted my front wheels when the outside temp was in the mid 20's and the garage was about 42 degrees. The wheels came out great because I did them one at a time with two lamps heating the surface. The results can be seen on post # 2178, and the lamps can be seen just above the wheels.
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...368988&page=88
For something the size of a car or truck I’d wait for warmer weather because I don’t have enough lamps to uniformly heat the entire surface.
2. For spraying tips, you might want to take a look at posts number 51 & 80 on this thread, which explains the techniques I used to paint my truck. Although I used John Deere Blitz Black, it’s also just air dry enamel, so the same methods would apply to Rustoleum paint:
http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...ht=blitz+black