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if the Allan that replied to you is the Allan I think it is, I really like your website Allan.

And no problem on the help Jerry, and you did get the compressor at a real ggod price. I guess you could paint your truck in sections that way you could give your compressor time to catch up and keep up some good preasure.. You could paint your fenders and hood, then paint your doors and cab. Then your back fenders and tail gate then your bed panels. The problem with using a smaller compressor would be keeping a pretty close constant preasure on your gun so you can keep a even pattern of paint going on the metal. As you can see in the pictures I did not set up a paint booth just used my garage as one. I used a shop vac to get up the dust. Then I wet the floor down to keep the dust down. I used enamel paint on a replica car I built about 2 years ago. I used my brother in laws 60 gallon compressor then and his siphon gun. The base coat clear coat enamel I used looked good but it doesn't seem to hold up as good as the single stage urethane paint i used. But that is just my opinon about the 2 stage enamel. And the siphon gun had a lot of over spray. But that could have been due to the gun being about 20 years old. If you decide to go with the single stage urethane. Be sure to get the kit with the wet look hardner in it. I used this on the 50 truck and it saved me some buffing because it dries with a nice shine to it. But if you want that old timey look I would go with the kit that does not have the wet look hardner in it. I used one of the kits without the wet look hardner on the 55 2nd series truck i restored. I used a lemonwood yellow on the 55 2nd because i put it back to original specs and it gave it a real nice old timey paint look to it, not to bright and not to dull.