There is a great facility in Langley, BC that will rent you a bay,  a bay
with a hoist, sandblasting gear and, of course, a spray booth.  Good guys
who make rods and resto-cars for a living.

On 10/11/06, Mike Bucchino <mbucchino@charter.net> wrote:
>
> 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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> >
>

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Jake
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