Damn bugs.

K

Karmin

First I would like to thank all the members and especially Barry for answering my texts for the great insight on painting a car. The knowledge here is incredible.

Just a thought, but is it possible to add a bug repellent to the clear?
 
If painting a whole car, could add a quart of marvel mystery oil to gas tank & leave it running. :mad:

​WHAT???? no bugs.:)

Seriously though, there are devices, such as dynatrap, that you leave running 24 hrs a day that gradually attract & catch certain bugs. Best in shady area & 20 feet or so away from area you're hanging out at. Wife just got 2 from qvc for a decent price that I installed a little over a week ago. Had a decent little pile in each one after a week of the same bunch of bugs you empty out of external light fixtures when changing a bulb.
 
nothing. i paint in the middle of the day. early morning it is humid and they are still around. night painting is a nightmare even with a booth .

i still remember my first bug light. hung it about 10 ft from us. worked great ! brought every bug on the lake right to us .
 
Funny to read this, I just sanded a bug off my 2k sealer an hour ago. I wouldn't try adding anything, imagine citronella oil..... Probably the fisheyes would outnumber the bugs
 
Any bug attracting devices definitely need to be far enough away to help & not just draw in. The whole thought behind the various modern trap models is a gradual reduction in the number of bugs that are attracted by carbon dioxide, which in turn reduces the number in the area that can reproduce. Have used a citronell candle outside the paint building when gnats & skeeters were just horrible & it did help.
​Timing, as Shine mentioned & also just plain luck with your timing has a lot to do with it, especially in an uncontrolled area. I have painted car parts under an open overhang area at work during a dusty street & city sewer project. Pulled everything out just as a light misty rain was starting in late summer afternoon. It dropped the dust in the air & the bugs didn't start coming out till the paint was tacking up good. That's what you call timing & luck. Also painted a disassembled front end under my home carport a few nights in a row starting spraying near midnight in march in n florida 5 years ago with nearly still air & bugs coming in just after paint tacking up. Not one march since then has had those conditions.
Being in touch with your particular surroundings at the moment , along with just plain luck, does have a lot to do with bugs & dust.

​Now if someone could just invent an anti-static device,,,,,,,,,,,,
 
they did.it was called a nova bar. it did collect static charge but one pass with the tack rag or the first coat charged it back up.
 
The lighter the color the bigger and blacker the bug that commits suicide in the clear. It seems they like the smell. Had a small can of the cheap lacquer thinner on the bench the other day and there were 5-6 husky black flys hovering over the can. Don't know why they are attracted other than them getting high.
 
General motors needs to put some bug guts in their paint. The way bugs stick to the front of my truck they might need to try some in the thier paint especially on thier vans cause all of them around here got paint coming off.
 
Funny story about bugs.... My dad bought some paint and clear from ebay, dirt cheap, shot the base on, looked great, shot the clear on and it never cured, 3 days later it looked like a huge orange fly paper, seemed like millions of bugs where stuck on it.
 
Anyone else notice that when you have a fly in the booth how easy it is to trap them with a tack cloth. I use the surgical blue's and I can take an old one and come up on the fly when they are at one of the lights and simply trap them with the tack cloth. They don't seem to be able to see it coming. Now don't laugh but I then release them outside the booth. I've got to where I don't like killing anything unless I have to.
 
Yard guard will save the day I spray it around the inside parameter and the outside before every job that is being done at the wrong time of day sometimes even if it's clear just as added insurance. All bugs will be gone and have never had any issues at all with the material being sprayed.
 
Never paint at night! Bugs smell the different acetates and they will come from other states to land in your job.
 
Barry;n84532 said:
Never paint at night! Bugs smell the different acetates and they will come from other states to land in your job.
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I was wondering what they were attracted to. Last week while spraying my radiator with gloss black, out of nowhere two large moths appeared and were intent on landing in the paint. These were the big fuzzy ones so they would have certainly left deposits in the wet paint. I'm like Chris Hamilton in that I'm at a point in my life where I can't kill anything anymore. I was able to use a cup and catch the moths until I finished spraying and let them go later. Heck, I'll even pick up a struggling earth worm in the sunlight and put it in the shade if I see one.
 
MikeS;n84533 said:
I was wondering what they were attracted to. Last week while spraying my radiator with gloss black, out of nowhere two large moths appeared and were intent on landing in the paint. These were the big fuzzy ones so they would have certainly left deposits in the wet paint. I'm like Chris Hamilton in that I'm at a point in my life where I can't kill anything anymore. I was able to use a cup and catch the moths until I finished spraying and let them go later. Heck, I'll even pick up a struggling earth worm in the sunlight and put it in the shade if I see one.
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LOL,
I thought I was the only weirdo that saved earth worms!
Use to shoot 6-10 deer a year for food, now spend $50 bucks a week to feed them in the front yard.
Old age makes you soft.
 
I live out in the country, in the middle of Cedar and Oak trees. So I'm constantly trying to keep insects, birds, etc. out of my shop. One of the biggest pains in my ass were mud daubers, they built nests EVERYWHERE. They got so bad last year, that I was killing an average of 40 to 50 in 20 minutes time.

That's when I came up with the idea of putting mosquito netting up around every door opening on my shop. Let me tell you, that's one of the best decisions I've made. No more bugs at all! 28565422785_acd1402ce0_b.jpg
 
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