UPDATE: Day 3-Cleaning and prep for paint work on project car...

Apr 13, 2024, 5:11 AM

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Good news, I found what I can use as a concrete slab.

The photos are the results of three days work making one pass through the mess. I made the first pass with hoe to scrape up what what dry spilled paint can be removed with such tools and a fair effort at sweeping.

I bought a 50 bag of floor sweeping compound for 23 bucks which will settle the dust rather than sweeping it into the air to have it repopulate the floor when 'the dust settles.'

Unfortunately, my friend Glen is not interested in disposal of the trash or the many half filled to full paint cans so yesterday I promised that if they weren't gone today I would set the paint cans outside the building and out of my way.

90% of those cans are or were labeled Ben Moore or Pratt Lambert. The last gal of Moore I bought cost 75 bucks and that was 20 years ago. Pratt Lambert is close enough to Moore that 99.9% of the people who make a living painting can't tell the difference in the two.

Beer and whiskey snobs might appreciate what these cans represent. My guess is that they average cost at $100/gal, with 125 cans inside and probably 45 already sitting outside the bay door, is about $10,000-$25,000 in wasted paint. I spent a good 6 hours just stacking cans.

Today I'll spend another two hour setting them outside.

I've swept the walls and found that nothing will remove enough of the dirt, dust and cobwebs to satisfy an #### person like me so I'm commandeering Glen's huge roll of plastic and covering the walls up to as high as I can reach on a 6' ladder.

I'm guessing I can deliver the car and move it into the garage Tuesday or Wed, Lord willing. I worked 7.5 hours without lunch yesterday but about an hour of that was replacing some framing members on the barn type bay door.

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Wow.

Thank you and I certainly will.

Its official

God is good.

Idk if anyone remembers but I had some stent work done either late last year of just after the first of this one. I wasn't able to do all I need to do to get that car painted. I had not gone into that garage and seen the extent of conditions deterioration and I wasn't able to do the work I'm doing now.

I got turned loose to tackle this project right on God's time which may have saved my life.

I was so tired after just six hours of up and down trying to clean out from under shelves and stack things higher to yield more floorspace that I didn't shoot pigs. I'll get them first thing tomorrow and do a two day update.

I promised to keep the lunge informed about all this and I'm getting up at 4-5am so I can do my updates fresh rather than doing sloppy reports.

Thanks for the encouragement and pray for me to keep mistakes to a minimum. Oh yeah, mention no heart attacks while alone in a garage out in the sticks.

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Re: UPDATE: Day 3-Cleaning and prep for paint work on project car...

One day the coupes will be priceless.