Morris Minor Owners Club

I'm at the point of teaching myself to spray paint (high build primer and topcoat).

My question is, if I'm praying the whole car inside and out what quantities of paint will I need? I only intend to use high build on the outside but to spray cellulose inside and out probably with a good 3 coats of each but I'm open to advice and suggestions.

Its a 2 door saloon by the way

Thank you,

Alex

I used about 2 ltr on a VW Beatle, that gave me 3 coats of colour, Assuming you need to keep thining the paint down more as you add coats, you will need a drip cup to time the drip point to show the paint is the correct viscosity, basicaly you dip in the paint the time the pour untill it stops running and drips, 28 -32 sec I think from memmory, bet to get the tech paper on the paint it should tell you the timing you need, then you need to plan you spray, roof the bonnet the work down a side, you need to practice as you need to keep the wet line going, in the old days we went to night sckool to learn a bit more on trade we were not fully qualified on, can you find any were to get a bit of advice

I don't think you'd get close to respraying a Minor inside and out to a decent standard with 2 litres. At least double that I would say
I bought 5 litres when I did my Traveller and had some over. DO use a good quality paint and spraying thinner too. Not the cheapest you could find on the internet. I really does pay to buy good quality materials

I’d also suggest nearer 5 litres, I painted a van, only had a pint or so left. Top grade thinners is recommended.
I was intrigued to hear of this ‘drip‘ thing, l’ve not heard of it before. I just looked at how it ran of the stirring stick !

Thank you for the replies. I was assuming it would be more towards 5 litres or a gallon and I'd rather have more than run short and risk not getting a good colour match. I've read elsewhere that good quality thinners is essential so good to hear it here too. I should be practicing my spraying using high build primer in the next few weeks so fingers crossed!

Alex

Good luck. Practice makes perfect .
The beauty of cellulose is that however badly it goes on there is usually some way of saving it!

The beauty of cellulose is that however badly it goes on there is usually some way of saving it!

The problem with celly is that however good it goes on it still needs loads of work after to make it LOOK good
The quality of So called Premium thinner is very poor compared to the celly of old,When I was involved in paint work 40 years ago once you put the thin top coat on it shone from the gun and stayed like glass,and needed minium cutting back,if any.Now it goes on fine but then dulls and needs considerable work to get a shine. Its all recycled these days. I personally would never use celly ,but probably never feel the need to respray a car again so my view is redundant.

There are better products nowadays (here comes the 2pack shouts of it will kill you ) but you need specialist safety gear to use ithem.
But Good luck with it

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Spraying seems to be going ok.... 3 coats of high build on which need flattening down a bit. Bonnet and doors to do still but pleased with the results!