First overall paint

87max

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First a sincere thank you to everyone here and Barry for the knowledge that is shared!
04 econoline, my work van I've owned since 09. During the pandemic construction has been halted here in Pa. I have needed to give this thing some tlc for a few years but the time just wasn't there to put it down. About a month prior the wind caught drivers door and pulled it out of my hand, pulled the skin off the shell on hinge side, couldn't get back open once I closed it. Had rust along drip rail (van is from florida coast) that was supposed to be fixed via swap with a friend in the trade but repairs were lackluster at best. Dogleg and fender were both in need of rust repair. A few years ago I backed into a tree and caught the rear rack on it bent the hell out of the drip rail and buckled the side a touch. The van was a glass companies before me and there were no interior liners, it looked like they were using the inside to break glass, some of dents to the outside were so pointed I don't know how it didn't penetrate the sides. also was vinyl lettered and a razor was used to remove, the clear was in very bad shape. I don't have pics of most of the existing issues I just went to it. Removed all the seam sealer from the drip rail and blasted it, pulled driver door and had to use a port a power in the shell to push it back and welded skin on. Pulled windshield to fix a few holes, replaced pass fender and repaired driver side along with dogleg. PPG base and everything else SPI (4 coats u.c. sides). I was just spraying the clear on the roof and my back went out (3 bad discs) I managed to get in the house and a friend dropped what he was doing came over and finished it up. I handed him a mess lots of trash from me falling into it so it needs scuffed and a few more coats of clear (only 2 now), the sides have a few runs that i had a bad trigger pull here and there. the Iwata is so much more sensitive than my primer guns. I will tend to those and a quick sand/ buff. Overall very pleased as it's 100% better I am not looking for perfection just a decent clean vehicle because it is used hard. Nothing fancy tool wise 60 gal 3.7 h.p. kobalt compressor, 3m d.a, durablocks, lincoln 180c, snap on body hammer, fairmount dolly, 4" shrinking disc, gravity feed blaster, tcp global primer gun, Iwata lph 400, porter cable 6" r.o. buffer

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Nice...that's a lot of real estate to paint

LOL, I'm thinking it gives you a lot of room to get it right ..... or if you're a slow learner, about a 1/4 acre of turf to sand out and try again!!!

Looks really good though!
 
I think largest surface area i finish sprayed before is my front door. Latex thats a whole other story... Just realized I have no d.a. paper to sand out with just ordered some eagle brand to try out. Naturally it was after some reading here!
 
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