someguy360
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You summed it up pretty well.
Yeah, my nephew does classic/high end restorations and won't touch anything less than a devilbiss or SATA 5000 thats like $1500-2000 etc and will only recommend the best. My argument to him is, you need them to perform perfectly every day for however many decades you plan to do this with no downtime.
The average person at home doing a restoration might pick up the gun once every 5-10 years, it's just not justified buying something top of the line thats going to spend 99% of it's life in a drawer.
It's people in trades like that who scare off people having a go themselves because they get in their head and try and convince them you need the best of the best equipment to do one car etc or don't even bother. When in actual fact practice and patience will yeild a better result than just going out and buying something expensive you don't know how to use.
It's all about getting in the shed and having a go, I've done everything on my car myself inc engines, diffs, paint, panel etc...it just comes down to practice and with Youtube etc these days you can get more than enough information than you'll ever need on the job at hand.
I reckon these days I can get more useful hands on information from watching professional's doing something on youtube than I ever learned out of a text book at trade school back in the day.
To the OP, while it might seem intimidating to start with, just watch a few hours of rust repair etc on youtube and you'll find it's not actually difficult, just a bit of practice etc.
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