Morris Minor Owners Club

Colour at present light Green...( nice enough)

Is it more expensive and a lot more hassle to change colour..taking of racing green or something ??

Is there different paint finishs ?? what that is extra glossy ??shiny ??
Is there a finish that will withhold rust ...

Withholding rust depends on removing all the rust during the paint prep!

If you're painting the car yourself, with an appropriate mask, then Cellulose is the way forward. If getting it done professionally in a paint booth they will want to use 2-pac (too poisonouis for home use). Morris Minors were originally finished in Cellulose, so its the best to use for any repairs on these cars- its much more forgiving for the home user to correct any mistakes too!!

How glossy the end result is depends on how long you spend flatting, buffing and polishing afterwards!!

If the present colour is nice enough, then its best to leave well alone!!

Thanks Chickenjohn...

Its an Anglia I am getting resprayed...thin enough coat of paint on it at present...Thinking of going Two Tone... Trying to to think of top and bottom colours...hmmmmmmm

i agree no minors should be painted in 2 pac unless your in to customising

Why ?

Quite - where's the sense behind that?

yes why

how about it dont look original

Nah ! thats just an old wifes tale

or you cant repair scratches without respraying the whole panel.
or what about it being bad for your health, even worse then smoking
and where does the waste products end up?
just a few

oh i am such a stick in the mud hahahaha

ps why is it going to be banned and replaced by water based paint
c ya

Ehh ! scratches are easy enough, although if bad enough it should be resprayed antway even if in cellulose, Its only bad for you if you breath it in as cellulose,the waste is recycled back to thinners or gunwash the rest probably ends up in the same place as cellulose bye products.
No I wouldn't say you were a stick in the mud but probably dilusional from cellulose fumes.

chickenjohn wrote:

How glossy the end result is depends on how long you spend flatting, buffing and polishing afterwards!!
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this is the reason why 2 pac took off
less labour and more profit for the car sprayers

with 2 pac it has a laquer that gives the shine and its also what goes off in the sun, and there nothing you can do about it but let it disintergrate and get it resprayed again. more profit for the car sprayers

Water based paint will only replace some 2K paints not all at first. Solid colour will be replaced but clear overs will still have a 2k element. I think the assumption that 2k allows car sprayers to make more money is ill founded. Firstly the bodyshop needed to inves in better filtered booth new spray guns, breathin equipment and a very high tax on emmissions and environmental tax, plus the cost of disposing of any bye products.
Cellulose is a very labour intensive way to paint, you spend longer in the booth plus time to wet flat and polish to a finish, 2K paint in most bodyshops can be applied in only two coats and many shops do not bother to cut and polish. Just look at Peugeot, Ford and BMW cars to see how not to finish paint a car. The quality is awfull, and would not be acceptable in our shop. So less time to paint and finish why would it cost more. Folk have asked on this forum about pro resprays in cellulose and found that if performed correctly the cost would be conciderably more. Think again now that 2K is to be sidelined, we now have to uprate our booth, to allow greater air movement, as its this that dries the paint cost nearly £3000 new srpayguns, cost £250-300, time allowance to learn to spray waterbased paint. The latter in our own time and not on customers cars I might add.
I'm not aware of the problems associated with laquer going of in the sun.
Not too sure why genuinely good paint shops, recieve the butt end of this humour. Do we all not work to recieve a wage, some I presume maybe seen as more deserving that others.

Sure you don't want a car to learn on?

Thanks for the offer Andrew, I'll plod on with the 2K route until its completly outlawed in about two years time. Fortunately my new employee, who also works for wages, is trained in painting with water the based stuff,and I'm hoping that a future employee we are taking on in May, who I presume will also want to work for wages, will be upto speed with this product.
Might be interested in painting a pick up though Andrew or was that a gramatical (slip of the tongue) mistake you made saying a car.

Well, it IS a sort of car... and they'll all be going down the sprayed outside when the neighbours are away route...

Well, if you want somebody without any experience in paint (except some excellent in the shed work)
I have used 2k at home, with breathing equipment. Went horribly wrong...

O and I have a car you try on. Platinum Grey please!

jonathon wrote:Nah ! thats just an old wifes tale