Currently i'm preparing my '05 Civic for fresh paint. The desired paint is Honda B518-P Midnight Blue Pearl. This is my first full paint job. Did some bumpers, a tailgate and some quarter panels before. This is definetly my most serious undertaking of this kind until now. It's a ridiculous amount of labour. But in the end it will be worth it 😊 @Aaron Jokela thanks for this course. It's a real gamechanger for me! Helps a lot!

I am working my way through the classroom modules. I don't have my booth built yet, but I have a plan. I've got a dozen 2x4 ft LED flat panel lights ordered from Home Depot that I plan to use for lighting (5000K, 7800 lumens). My booth will be 12x24 ft, so I was thinking of putting 4 lights vertically on each side, 2 longways on top, and one horizontally on each end, at a 45 degree angle up tight to the ceiling. Does that sound light it would work? Any and all suggestions appreciated. Also, in the tutorials, it was mentioned, "Make sure that your side lights are positioned at 20-40° angles, so defects create shadows you can actually see." Does that apply to flat panel lights, too, or am I overthinking things, as I tend to do? Thanks.

Does anyone know if paint booths that exhaust through floor grates typically have a water drain integrated into the lowest point of the exhaust pit as well? Are there paint booths where you can rinse down the floor, or possibly even the walls, with a water hose? I’m trying to plan my booth and have limited knowledge of how some of the higher-end, permanent setups are designed and built.

I just watched the video less on preparation and see that you recommend solvent cleaner before water based cleaner (alcohol, etc.). Most other places I have watched recommend the opposite order, water based cleaner first and then solvent based cleaner right before spraying. I am fighting fish eyes and have always wiped with alcohol last, but that also with water borne paints. I am now spraying Axalta solvent base paint and am wondering if that might be more compatible with a solvent being the last thing on the panel. I am going to try another test panel and reverse my order and see if that helps. I am pretty sure the contamination is on the panel and not in the air system, but I am trying to rule out everything as best I can and got to wondering if the order of cleaning might be different for a solvent base paint rather than a water based single stage paint.

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