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Old Aug 1, 2015 | 08:30 AM
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Big day today! Professional painter coming out to the house today to paint the cab on my '50 F2 in my home made paint booth. He already did the doors last week at his place. I did all the body and primer work. He will fix anything that is not up to his standards (he inspected it last week) and then will put on the finish color. I'm excited!!
 
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Old Aug 1, 2015 | 08:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Cougar54
Big day today! Professional painter coming out to the house today to paint the cab on my '50 F2 in my home made paint booth. He already did the doors last week at his place. I did all the body and primer work. He will fix anything that is not up to his standards (he inspected it last week) and then will put on the finish color. I'm excited!!
You should be excited! Be sure to show us pics!
 
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Old Aug 1, 2015 | 11:15 AM
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Happy day!
 
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Old Aug 1, 2015 | 11:36 AM
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Still waiting for the painter. He's stuck in traffic as road crews work on the expressways on the weekend. The anticipation is killing me!
 
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Old Aug 1, 2015 | 12:13 PM
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Can't wait for that day myself

Post pic if u can
 
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Old Aug 1, 2015 | 03:32 PM
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Exciting times for sure!
 
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Old Aug 1, 2015 | 08:00 PM
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Painting done. Looks good! Pictures tomorrow!!!
 
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Old Aug 2, 2015 | 11:55 AM
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It's tomorrow, where are those pics?
Always happy to drool over new shine!
 
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Old Aug 2, 2015 | 02:27 PM
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I really want to see the pics as well!
 
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Old Aug 2, 2015 | 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by 52flatheadf1
I really want to see the pics as well!
OK, OK! It takes time to add film and get it developed . . . just kidding

Here is the cab with door jambs and interior painted sitting in front of the paint booth.



Here it is in the booth fully masked and ready for final paint.




After sealer, color, and a few coats of clear




Completed paint still sitting in the booth.


De-masking in progress . . .


Completely unmasked, sitting in the sun awaiting further work!



Still more paint work to do (fenders, hood, etc.) but it's great to have this part done.
 
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Old Aug 2, 2015 | 03:50 PM
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Looks great, congrats!

What color is that? Looks kinda like Case tractor orange....
 
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Old Aug 2, 2015 | 03:57 PM
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Looks great! That's quite a booth you made, too.
 
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Old Aug 2, 2015 | 04:08 PM
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Your truck looks great. I'd like to know more about the booth. I see the fan with the filter over it. That's for air in? How does it exhaust? I like the zipper door into it.
 
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Originally Posted by ALBUQ F-1
Looks great! That's quite a booth you made, too.
Thank you!

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Looks great, congrats!

What color is that? Looks kinda like Case tractor orange....
It's a GM color called hugger orange.
 
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Old Aug 2, 2015 | 05:04 PM
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Your truck looks great. I'd like to know more about the booth. I see the fan with the filter over it. That's for air in? How does it exhaust? I like the zipper door into it.
The booth is made from a 20x12 portable garage frame. I made the doors and the far end from 2x4's and wrapped it in 6 mil plastic. The fans in the doors are the exhaust fans and the other end of the booth has 2 intake fans built into it. The exhaust filters were replaced 3 times during the painting process on Saturday.

 
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