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If your car needs bodywork, you're going to need a welder. For car repairs, the most practical process is MIG (Metal Inert Gas), and this
is what I have been using for all repairs to this DS.
The machine I have is a SIP 130T gas fed MIG Welder, with an Argosheild gas. It works out much cheaper to buy your gas in big cylinders like this.
Go to your local BOC dealer and they have a large selection of bottles for hire; the best one I have found is an Argon/Co2 mix.
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You're going to need to do a bit of spraying when restoring a car, even if you don't do the final painting yourself.
You can get away with using aerosols, but you'll find that they extremely expensive in comparison to using a spray gun.
I bought this Ingersoll Rand compressor, which has a 10cfm rating and a 100litre tank. It'll power the spray gun, and presently
I'm using it to prime panels and paint small parts such as the air cleaner housing.
Because compressors are big and noisy, I decided to house it in a small shed attached to the side of the workshop. Air is fed
through the wall into the garage, and also out into the yard so that in summer I can use air tools outside. The actual shed
has 2 inch cavity walls filled with insulation to make sure it doesn't get too cold in there during Winter.
You'll notice that I have an air filter attached directly to the end of the compressor, this is to filter moisture from the
air which would ruin the paint finish.
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