The reason my father and his business partner got out of the body shop business was that it was virtually impossible to find a reliable painter. That was back in the early 1950's and the situation hadn't improved much if at all when I co-owned a body shop in the mid-1970's. They said it was commonplace to have to bail their painter out of jail almost every Monday morning with a "drunk and disorderly" charge pending. The guys inhaled lacquer fumes all week and apparently they had to keep the buzz going on the weekends with booze. By the 70's, the drunks were usually potheads also, so I had to deal with both kinds of self-destructive behavior. Nowadays, the cyano-acrilate hardeners used in a lot of clearcoat jobs makes painters crazier than a mad hatter! It doesn't even have to be inhaled- - - -it's absorbed through any bit of uncovered skin it can find! There's just no way to win!
Jerry
