Us military-types can rent an on-base booth by the hour at the auto hobby
shop.......

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Egeln" <regnsuzanne@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: Painting

> From what I understand most bodyshops won't let anyone but employees use a
> booth due to the EPA and resultant insurance rules.
> Anthony
> '89 Syncro GL (Hidlago)
>
>
> Jonathan Farrugia <jfarrugi@UMICH.EDU> wrote: Robert
>
> how did you find a spray booth to rent?  i wired spray booths for
> years and always wanted to rent one out to spray my stuff but never heard
> of any of the shops doing this.
>
> jonathan
>
>
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Robert Fisher wrote:
>
>> I took 'body shop' in high school... you signed up on a waiting list and
>> you
>> paid for the materials (and I believe a small fee that went toward other
>> overhead items involved with the course) and you got your paint job labor
>> free in exchange for giving your car up to a bunch of adolescent goofs.
>> If
>> you preferred your goofs a little older they had a similar program at the
>> area vocational school.
>>
>> We turned out a pretty nice job- we actually weren't allowed to give back
>> a
>> car with a less-than-professional result. The worse the beater the better
>> as
>> it gave us more opportunities to work with different problems. You might
>> check around your area and see if there is a program like that available,
>> if
>> time isn't much of an issue. It's a hell of a lot cheaper than paying all
>> that labor.
>>
>> If you find a program and don't want to wait, talk to one of the better
>> students and see if they're taking work on the side. We used to make
>> money
>> on the weekends doing that. We'd the prep in the driveway and book a
>> rental
>> paint booth for a day and do the main shooting there. Beat the hell out
>> of
>> mowing lawns.
>>
>> There are shops around here that turn away older cars that actually need
>> work because they can make more money on straight paint jobs that require
>> little body work/prep. One shop here refused to take one of my folks'
>> cars
>> because it required some minor welding and rust-out repair and they told
>> me
>> the vehicle wasn't worth the work (as if that's any of their business)
>> and
>> it wasn't worth their time. Nice business manner.
>>
>> Robert
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From:
>> To:
>> Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:22 PM
>> Subject: Re: Painting
>>
>>
>>> In a message dated 10/11/06 3:14:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>>> magikvw@GMAIL.COM writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>> If cost is a major option - what are the lists thoughts on having a bus
>>>> painted at an Earl Sceib or similar mass painting shop. I tend to be
>>>> very
>>>> apprehensive of their claims. However, what is really the difference
>>>> between
>>>> what they will do for $750 or what a small independent shop will do for
>>>> thousands?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> well u get what you pay for.   a $750 paint job by earl schieb looks
>>> like
>>> a
>>> $750 earl schieb paint job.
>>>
>>> im serious..  people will come up to you and say.."you had your van
>>> painted
>>> at earl schieb , didnt you?...  or you may get some who will say "is
>>> that
>>> an
>>> earl schieb $750 paint job, or a Maaco $495 paint job?"      you get the
>>> picture
>>> :<)
>>>
>>> chris
>>
>>
>>
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