Cold Temperatures in the North vs Bed Liner

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Ok so I let the door of opportunity close in my face here in Northwest Montana. I am ready to epoxy prime (SPI) the underside of my truck cab. The temperatures are too cold to spray outside, Im going to have to do it in my shop. I keep it warm in there, but it sounds like a mini disaster spraying bed liner inside a shop. I have two questions.

1. Can anyone tell me they have had good luck spraying bedliner inside their shop without getting it everywhere?

2. I am using a seam sealer on the floor. Do I apply that as soon as the epoxy dries and then let it set overnight before the bedliner? I understand the tech sheet says at least an hour or overnight, but I do not see seam sealer in the equation.

I am using the gun recommended and purchased by SPI. I dont want to wait until summer to do the bedliner outside, but I suppose I could do the epoxy and a quick scuff in the spring as soon as the temperatures come back up.
 
From the Tech Manual

Just like automotive clear coats or single stages this bed liner will cure very, very slow
below 60 degrees and it is possible for this product to go nearly dormant.

Can't help you with the overspray question, although I hope to know myself in a few weeks!
 
Mitch, are you doing it inside your shop? I can keep it well above 70 for as long as it takes to dry. I hope someone can tell us some success stories of doing it inside. I really believe most guys shoot inside, but only thing I have heard is one guy said he learned the hard way and gave me the impression outside is the way to go.
 
You have to have a non-contact infrared thermometer to do these kinds of things. Air temp and surface temps can be very different things.
 
I better pick one up...its been on my to do list. Just moved to my must do before I shoot list. Thanks Crash. So any wisdom spraying inside or outside a building?
 
The Bedliner has minimal over spray. The Geo gun shoots more like a drywall texture gun. Not much of that over spray haze at all. The seam sealer will kinda depend on what your using the 3m 2k I have used lately says good to go in 15 minutes, I have yet to get to it in the same day tho...

Also I never have a huge chunk of time at once so I typically only get one thing done a day. Maybe day 1 epoxy, day 2 seam seal and tape off, day 3 bedliner and unmask
 
Bomcorkle, That sounds pretty laid back schdule, I like it. I have the cab carefully laid on its back on a piece of foam. Im thinking I can lay plastic under neath it on the floor. For the sides and top, Im just going to make some cardboard extensions to give me two feet all around the sides and top. Any over spray will hopefully be confined to the truck and cardboard extensions. I cant remember if I was looking at the 3m or evercoat 2k seam sealer, but one of those. Did you shoot inside?
 
Yes on the inside. I use the 3m stuff that goes in the automix gun, there are 3-4 different consistencies depending on where its going .

I'd lay out a piece of like house painters plastic underneath then mask off, when masking I like to just use the tape itself to make my line then I use the 3m paintable plastic mask and tape it to the tape(that make sense?)

There really is very minimal over spray the Geo Gun doesn't really "spray" it spits(also that make much sense?)

If I am picturing your cardboard idea correctly I think it should work, I've never tried to mask anything that way tho. The 3m mask plastic isn't cheap but a roll goes a long way and if you over spray onto it paint will stick to it. I'd think that maybe just a cheap pack of the plastic mask like home depot may work by then again I've never tried it.

I always have 2 or three cars going at once, and a day job so even while I'm waiting on paint to flash I'm typically working on one of mine(don't get much time for them) or another area of the same ride, for instance I have a 68 pickup going right now, the cab is in base clear, the doors are in base, waiting for clear tomorrow, the bed is waiting for interface prior to sealer along with the hood and fenders, so if I'm waiting my hour between coats I don't just set on my thumb, I HATE waiting!

Also for me breaking everything down and getting it done as I go makes things seem less overwhelming and eternal, something is always making some progress
 
Great, you give me hope. If you can handle all those at once, maybe I can handle just one. LOL. Lots of good information there!
 
You ought to mask anything within the building that you don't want oversprayed just to be safe, especially within 8 feet or so and stuff that is "downwind."
 
I only have one...if I cant do it outside, its in the shop. I might get a shot outside yet, then pull it inside to cure.
 
I don't know about you guys, but in South Dakota we are getting a little heat wave. Suppose to be in the 80's this weekend.
 
So your gonna get a shot at your next project in the next week or two Mitch?
 
Unfortunately not. I've been in the hospital with my 2 week old son for the last few days and will be here for the foreseeable future. They are trying to figure out what's wrong with him, did a biopsy and won't get the results on Monday. Good news would mean going home middle of the week, bad news would be surgery and probably another week or 2 at the hospital. I live 120 miles from the hospital we are in, so that doesn't help anything either. I'll be lucky if I can put in enough hours at our day job, much less my restoration work. To make matters even worse one of our workers leaves at the end of the month and I have guard drills next weekend. Gonna be rough.
 
Both of my girls were in the hospital very young, one at 2 days (my first) and one at about 4 months. Worst feeling in the world, being able to fix about any damn thing and just be stuck watching the one thing you wanna fix.... Best of luck sir hopefully the wee one is back at it soon.
 
prayers for you and your family mitch. hope all goes well. nothing worse than a little one who's sick .
 
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