Let me make this perfectly clear....

Today I am actually documenting what happened on Tuesday.  Unfortunately, I have had a cold the past few days and was not combat ready, so didn't feel like blogging.

Anyway, we arrived at the Belmont paint facility around 8:30.  Our RV actually went into the "Stripe Repair" station earlier in the morning, but we didn't see a reason to go in real early.  Would have been nice to watch them pull off the stencil pattern for the stripes though.

Anyway, when we arrived it was inside the bay where they repair the stripes.  There were a number of areas that they touched up with the sprayers.  The windows to this booth were splattered with paint, so pictures didn't really come out well at all.

Here the bay doors are opened and they are ready to drive the RV out to the next station.  They have already removed the covering over the front window so they can see where they are going.

There was one last minute touch-up on the white color before it came out.

Here it is being driven out of the stripe repair bay and to the next station.

This station is to get the RV ready for the clearcoat.  First, the paint job is inspected.  The inspector above is marking areas to be fixed with blue tape.  He goes over the entire pain job!  You can see two real small fixes tagged to his left.  

As part of the prep, workers use razor blades and go along the boundary of each color to clean up any adhesive from the tape or stencil.  If they didn't do this, the adhesive would end up being under the clear coat and almost impossible to fix later.

One of the areas the inspector found was repaired but still not up to his standards, so he grabbed the equipment and fixed it himself!

Now it is being driven into the clearcoat bay.  All windows and other non-painted surfaces are covered or taped so they are not clearcoated.

Here you can see the workers wearing their space suits as they spray clear coat on the RV.  They seemed to go over each area several times.

Next, after the clear coat is applied, the RV is driven into the oven.  The oven is actually physically connected to the exit of this bay so that no foreign particles can get on the clearcoat.  In the oven, the RV will be baked at a temperature of 160 degrees for one hour to dry the clear coat.

We didn't stay to watch the oven drying since there are no windows.  Instead we left and will come back on Monday for the final inspections.  Between the end of the painting and Monday, all the taping and protective paper will be removed, the outside accessories (TV, awnings, stairs, etc.) will be added, and then it will be bubble tested once more before going into the rain booth.  

So when we see it on Monday, we should be seeing the final product!  We have decided to name the RV "Kelvin" in honor of the supervisor and team that built it.  There was no easy way to include everyone's name in the RV name, so we picked their supervisor as the namesake!