Prime, rub & paint
Last month we left the DS3 with the damaged sill and rear wing straightened out, with a skim of filler over the sill area. This month we’ll be rubbing the filler down, priming it and finally getting it in the paint oven. Some of this we can’t photograph due to health and safety that is justified for once. Primer vapour might make you feel a bit dizzy, but the 2-pack clear coat lacquer is highly poisonous being 2-pack isocyanate. ‘Isocyanates include compounds that are classified as human carcinogens known to cause cancer in animals. The main effects of hazardous exposures are occupational asthma and certain lung problems plus irritation of the eyes, nose, throat and skin.’
Nasty, and rapid death from a severe asthma attack has been known. So, to that end you absolutely need proper air-fed head gear to paint this stuff and a regular face mask will not do. I wasn’t going in there with a camera at any rate.
With the booth full with
