If you love cars and possess a good work ethic, an auto body shop can be a lucrative business opportunity. For your auto shop to be successful,

You will need a combination of effort, auto painters training, of course, the right auto body equipment,

which will enhance the speed and ease of body repair work. With the right tools, you’ll be able to meet the demands of today’s auto body structures.

How to Read Automotive Paint Mixing Cups.

Paint cups are used primarily in the automotive painting industry to achieve the correct mixtures of paint prior to application.

Paint is never applied straight. It is first mixed with an activator solution and occasionally a third component like a paint thinner or reducer.

Since paint manufacturers provide exact ratios for each of these products, the math can get tricky.

Outfit your body shop with stands and racks built to last.

In order to operate efficiently, an automotive repair business needs core gear. Our online store stocks a broad variety of heavy duty supplies for mechanics, such as:

Body shop door stands are the most popular automotive paint stands.

For example, door stand paint both the inside and outside of your car door at same time

Designed to enable full and complete painting of door panels, this stand offers 360-degree accessibility for painting inside and out.

Bodywork tools

When choosing bodywork tools, you need to proceed from the criteria of quality, not price. Not always the cost objectively reflects the quality of the product. For this, it is better to consult professional craftsmen who know a lot about it.

On the pages of our site, you will find a description of the necessary tool with its technical characteristics. Our experts will be happy to answer all your questions.

Inappropriate cleaning utensils

Forcible disassembly of nozzle components

Soaking in contaminated cleaning solution

Contaminated compressed air

When working should be aware of the following aspects:

The cleanliness of the water tank is paramount. The fact is that only a few grains of sand, incidentally on a circle or surface, can irrevocably spoil the result of work by scratching the paintwork...

1. Stages of polishing

Basically, the polishing is divided into two stages:

- the first is restorative polishing;

- the second is protective polishing.

Restorative polishing is usually done using abrasive pastes. Such a polishing removes the thinnest, very topmost layer of clearcoat, "beaten" by life, full of scratches, scuffs and chips - it already only spoils the appearance of the car, and therefore must be removed.

ANEST IWATA Corporation was founded in 1926 and is currently one of the largest manufacturers of paint and clearcoat equipment in the world. 

ANEST IWATA engineers have created a unique spraying technology due to the design feature of the "cut nozzle", which allows for better surface coverage.

By the principle of operation this tool is:

- ORBITAL;
- RANDOM ORBITAL (with eccentric).

The first type is structurally very similar to the grinder and has lower rotational speed and high torque. It is for this reason that the latter is unsuitable for polishing the car body.

When choosing a body work tools, you need to proceed from the criteria of quality, not price. Not always the cost objectively reflects the quality of the product. For this, it is better to consult professional craftsmen who know a lot about it.