Hot Rod Restoration: Safety Equipment for Painting

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Joel Jones, I own Jonesy's Inc., a company that specializes in auto restoration and customization. O.k., we're getting ready to spray some primer on a '64 Ford Fairlane project and I want to walk through some of the safety equipment that are absolute necessities if you're going to try and spray and kind of paint product or modern paint product on your own. I would not recommend that you do this in your garage, you can rent paint booths for not a lot of money or you can try to establish some kind of relationship with a body shop and they can walk you through, if you really want to be involved. But bare minimum, you're going to need the following products to do this safely. The first is a full paint suit, and the difference between a paint suit and a, just a regular pair of coveralls is that these resist chemical, as well as it has a full hood. So it comes up, it covers all of your exposed skin, which is extremely important. A lot of the modern paint products can get absorbed directly through skin and they wreak havoc on your Liver and cause Cancer and all of really, really terrible things. Again, you want to protect your hands from the chemicals as well. So, a re-usable pair of gloves is an absolute must if you're going to be handling any kind of paint products, and the most important safety equipment that you can have is a Respirator. A Supplied Air Respirator is by far the best and the safest. But, you must have a good quality, paint grade, automotive Respirator that covers your entire face. Chemicals can get absorbed directly into your bloodstream through your eyes, and when you're spraying out atomized paint, and you, it hits you in the face, it can go directly into your bloodstream through your eyes. So, you definitely want to make sure that you've got a full face shield to protect your eyes, and protect your lungs, and protect your skin. Finally, you're going to need a paint gun, and I only use high volume, low pressure spray guns. This saves on paint, it saves on your compressor, and it helps prevent more environmental impact from volatile organic compound emissions. Your spray gun's going to need it's own auxiliary filter, just kind of to safe guard against any other contaminates getting into the air stream. It needs its own regulator at the gun and then it needs to be calibrated for the viscosity of the product you're going to be spraying. I would recommend that if you're going to do this, consistently and frequently, you invest in two different types of guns. One as a primer gun and as a top coat and a clear coat gun. The primer gun has a much larger tip because the primers are a lot thicker than the base coats or the clear coats."