Car bodies: technical handbooks - painting

Car Painting

An essential guide to all aspects of car painting, for keen amateurs and professionals alike. With step-by-step instructions and illustrations throughout, Car Painting covers the entire process - from panel preparation to spraying and painting techniques - offering guidance and tips on painting your car to a professional standard.

With a focus on safety throughout, the book also covers:
- Selecting and understanding paint, including important legislation
- Materials and equipment, and building your own paint booth
- Preparing your car, including parts removal, sanding, chemical stripping and rust proofing
- Masking and priming
- Painting techniques - spraying, clear coats and drying
- Stripes and custom touches, including two-tone, pinstriping and stickers
- Polishing, reassembly and preservation
- Troubleshooting.

How to Paint Your Car

Reveals the techniques, tricks, and technology behind automotive painting through 400 color photos, clear captions, detailed text, and step-by-step how-to sequences. You'll learn the latest information about paint chemistry, waterborne paints, spray guns, body fillers, surface prep, site prep, as well as respirators and other safety gear that every automotive painter must know.

With step-by-step detail, you'll learn how to properly prepare your car for paint work, including minor bodywork, surface preparation, rust removal, masking, priming and final coating.
Also includes information about custom touches and effects as well as how to care for your paint after application, including information on buffing compounds, waxes, and other care products.

Everything you need to know to feel comfortable and confident in undertaking your own paint project, whether a touch-up job or a complete respray, is covered in "How to Paint Your Car".

SATA Automotive Paint - from Prep to Final Coat

Solvent-based paints have been used in automotive applications since the days when automobiles were called "buggies" and the horsepower was provided by, well, horses. But recent EPA regulations have restricted solvent-based paints for use only in approved professional paint booths, meaning that do-it-yourselfers can no longer use them - and it won't be long before their use is banned entirely.

Paint manufacturers have raced to develop water-based paints as a replacement for the solvent-based paints previously used. These new water-based automotive paints are of very high quality, but they require different methods and techniques for proper application, virtually rendering previous automotive paint books obsolete.

"SATA Auto Paint from Prep to Final Coat" is the first book to provide instruction in these new paints. In addition to providing this critical information, author and top professional painter JoAnn Bortles covers all the techniques necessary to get the great results your car deserves.
From initial body-panel preparation, to troubleshooting common problems, to applying the final coat and all steps in between, this book is the only reference you will need to ensure your DIY automotive paint job is done right the first time.

Automotive Detailing in Detail - A Guide to Enhancing, Renovating and Maintaining Your Vehicle's Appearance

This book takes the combined experience and expertise of three leading detailing commentators to provide a thorough and expansive overview of automotive detailing techniques.
From the pre-wash, wash and preparation stages, through machine polishing to paint protection and maintenance, every detailing stage is covered: surface types, contaminants and products are analysed, before the actual processes are laid bare.