Re: Garage lighting

["Tony Sims" <simstony@domain.elided>]

My garage has fluorescent lights, and it does make every paint flaw stand
out.  I'm OK with this, I have no concours de elegance fantasies.  After
polishing the cars in the garage, they look much better in daylight.  Almost
convinces me they don't need to be repainted. . .

Seems like for fluorescent lights to damage your paint (like UV), they would
need to be on a lot, certainly more than the few hours you might spend in
your garage each week?  I have inexpensive car covers I keep on the cars in
the garage.  I never really thought about protection from light, but I guess
it is.  I cover the cars because they're a magnet for anything that might
get dropped or spilled in the garage, and inevitably if one of the cars is
dusty or dirty, the cat will feel compelled to take a sliding run across the
hood or top (and I will have to fight the urge to throw something at said
cat, which always misses the cat but hits the car).  It also means I don't
have to wash them as often, so I can convince myself they're rusting slower.

Tony


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Greenfield" <alfaguy@domain.elided>
To: "'Jay T Hinton'" <jhinton@domain.elided>; <alfa-digest@domain.elided>
Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 10:28 AM
Subject: RE: Garage lighting


> Jay -
>
> I think all they mean by this is that fluorescent lighting will highlight
> any flaws in the paint. You can go nuts polishing and waxing a car
> (especially a black one) inside a garage with fluorescent lights. The
> lighting will cause any little streak, flaw, or anything else to look 100
> times worse than it really is.
>
> Most of these things you would never see in daylight.
>
> Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-alfa@domain.elided [mailto:owner-alfa@domain.elided] On Behalf Of
Jay
> T Hinton
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 12:30 PM
> To: alfa-digest@domain.elided
> Subject: Garage lighting
>
> I am about to purchase some light fixtures for the new garage and was
> wondering what other options I might have.
>
> On one program of Car Crazy on SpeedTv, a collector made a reference to
> florescesnt (spp) lighting as being too harsh on automotive paints.....
>
> Track lighting would only illuminate specific areas,  which is fine for
> the workbench area,  but otherwise...
>
> Ciao,  Jay
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