How to paint with Spray Cans 

One of the best vids I have seen on using spray cans and the different types of clear coat to use. Cheers from the UK.

I have been a spray painter for over 25years, semi retired now. I l appreciate your love of painting and watched a few vids, keep up your great work new sub

I just wanted to say thanks for all the videos.... I do a ton of diy and work on cars just because I enjoy it but I have always struggled with spraying. But the tips on all the videos have been a complete game changer for me.... I have just finished a few spray jobs and I am so happy with them.... and its 100% down to everything I have learnt watching your videos... thanks so much again.... please keep going😊

Good job. I had never painted a car or body parts in 30 years and at least 25 cars I've owned. This past week I painted my teenage son's Impreza in an open carport on gravel and dirt ground. I figured out what works for my area (western Colorado). I did 5 and 7 light to medium-wet coats on a whole car, over 4 sessions without fail. Apply and let dry for 15 (minimum) to 20 (maximum) minutes between coats and it works fine for the paints I used. You should spray two small test areas with all environmental/time factors the same before the actual project. For example, if you have an area to spray that takes 10 minutes to paint it, wait and warm-up/shake your next can(s) for 5 minutes and start the next coat. That's a total of 15 minutes. I know up to 20 minutes is also good. But 40 minutes was too long because that induced chemical reactions and severe wrinkling. I painted in the same order/pattern each time I sprayed a section. I had zero runs, spray errors, or reaction defects. The original paint condition was below average. No body rust, but 50% of clear coat was gone and hunter green was faded and rock chips galore. Below is the weather, process and paint I used. 1. Up to 3-mph occasional breeze is okay, anything faster or constant is to be avoided. Clear skies, for light, preferred. 20% to 40% humidity. Temperature between 50F and 72F while spraying. Warmed spray cans in hot water in a bucket. Shake them as much as possible. Paints used on sides, nose and rear (3 sections): -- Rust-Oleum Painter's Touch Gloss Navy Blue 2X Paint + Primer: 1 medium-wet coat. -- Rust-Oleum Stops Rust Enamel Gloss Navy Blue: 2 medium-wet coats. -- Rust-Oleum Stops Rust Enamel Crystal Clear coat: 2 light coats + 2 medium-wet coats. I think a 5th coat could be applied with no problems. Paints used on hood, roof and hatchback (1 section): -- Rust-Oleum Painter's Touch Gloss Black 2X Paint + Primer: 2 coats. -- Rust-Oleum Universal Hammered Black: 3 coats (4th coat optional). ***Color dries gloss dark grey with blackish specs, not solid black. 2. Sanded car with 100 and 150 grit dry paper by hand, with a scrubby dish sponge as the pad to fold the paper around. First, I sanded high defect/damaged spots...double their original size. Then I sanded vertically and again horizontally (cross hatched) the whole car. 3. From this point forward you must walk carefully to protect from dirt contamination...do not drag or scuff the ground. Wet the surrounding area to help keep dust out of air. Douse car with hot water and wipe down with rags. Let air dry 30 minutes. Check that all areas are smooth/scuffed well...touch up as needed. Wash with hot water+dish soap and rags/sponge. Rinse well. Dry with microfiber. Air dry 15 minutes. Tape up as necessary. 10 to 15 minutes before paint spraying use a microfiber cloth and lighter fluid or mineral spirits (same thing) to wipe down the section to be painted. Immediately before painting wipe all surface with a tack cloth. As you're spraying move slowly and don't scuff the ground. 4. Even in the open air you will want to use a painting respirator, but at minimum cover nose and mouth with thick damp cloth or N95/N100 face mask. Clear, tight fitting safety eye glasses work best...the larger goggles reflect light and make wet paint difficult to see clearly. I had to go without eye cover and just squinted my eyes when the paint spray was thick, because goggles distorted the light. 5. It will take these paint formulas 3+ hours to dry to firm finger touch so leave it alone for 5 hours. I let it dry 24 hours in the carport and then put it in the Sunlight for 2 more days before driving. At 25 to 30 days I'll polish and wax it. If you want to see pics drop me your email and I'll send you a couple.

It is real satisfying to do a job like this and make it look new again 👍

This was beyond helpful! Thanks for taking the time to put this together for us. Stay safe Bro

At last, a clear and simple video on how to do this sort of work, you made it so easy to understand each stage, am a bit of a hobbiest painter, only small stuff to help family out, but may look to doing more to make some money as have lost my job thanks to this bloody virus, anyway many thanks from the uk.

Wow, that’s amazing, I never realised you could get such a good result from a can! You are the Master.

Keep up the great work guys... I done a spray course with you guys years ago.. I learnt soo much customspraymods, Mark and Mario are legends!

Your videos are both inspiring and educating me to prepare doing a rattle can job on my entire car. Extremely informative and you explain all areas well, giving valuable knowledge. Also found out you're from Australia too! Love from Melbourne my guy!

Just discovered this channel recently and it kicks ass! Very well presented and informative. Much appreciated!

Brilliant video. I've got a 20 year old audi S3 that I'm going to try paint myself.

The UPOL clear is brilliant, it smooths out so well giving a nice flat glossy finish with next to no orange peel.

Very straight forward and so easy to understand. Great tutorial. Thank you for the helpful tips.

Cool video, very informative, excellent results, when I use cans I always turn the can upside down and spray a little to clear the nozzle between coats

Simple WONDERFUL mate... ALWAYS MY TOP PRIORITY..

Not too shabby! Well done

Could use a buff out, but hell...it looks better than the rest of the car. Love the things that can be done with rattle cans when you take the care to do things right. Cheers. Great vid.

Love this, Bought the cans from vg auto paints and sprayed my bumper looking good so far, I'll be buffing it soon to see that gloss pop out

Great video & well done. My skills are mechanical - not body - but I have a job to do, I know my limits, and your video has helped the confidence. Appreciated. Fletch - Classic Restos TV.

Hey Dave, spotted you in a local Service NSW joint a couple of weeks ago. You looked a bit busy, so didn't want to be rude. Would've said hi otherwise. Knew it was you, surprising how different folks look on camera sometimes. Enjoy your vids, find them very informative.

Brilliant video, tackling a vw golf here in London, did all the prep work and primer but wasnt keen on laying the basecoat myself but think I will have a go now.

Great vid as always, I like the way you supply paint diy enthusiasts custom mixed upol paints I wish people did that here where I live

Dude. Great channel. Never kneel on a solid floor without knee protection - not even one time. It's going through me, man. Stay safe. :-)

In Australia & New Zealand this car was known as the Holden VT Commodore and by the look of this car it is the 'Berlina' badged variant.

17th September 2021. Super crazy outside now with COVID all of NSW in lockdown. Perfect time for some DIY and catching up on your vids. Cheers for keeping me saine

Not finding Proxl 2K in the US. USC Spray Max 2K runs around $16 a 335gram can. Thanks for another great video!! Stay safe in these crazy times!!

Excellent video! This answered a lot of questions. Thank you

holy crap, I was literally just on your website a few hours ago and sent through an enquiry about your colour shift aerosols and then this video pops up in my RU-vid feed haha :)

Lovely mate! Thats a great Job!

This vid is 2 years old but yes we have 2k clear. Eastwood makes an awesome one. Puncture bottom to mix and sprays great. Doesn't leave that clear haze less expensive cans produce.

hey Dave another great vid beefing up also cheers for the step by steps

Great info.Thanks. and what,a great workshop to do a days work. 👌

Great video, really helpful. I'd love to see a video on how to blend clear coat. I know others have done it, but it'd be great to get the "Dave treatment"

Thanks mate I learned a lot from this.

Great video. You just saved me a few hundred dollars. Thank you

Thanks for the tutorial. This is a game changer!!!

Just pay 20 and get 2k clear people always remember that, great work man ty

Great video Dave! I'm keen to get stuck into spraying my cars now!

You are amazing! Thank you for your time and teaching.

Thank you from Ventura California!

You’re amazing thanks for all these instructional vids. I’m going to paint my PC case with paints I bought from Bunnings and Supacheap, but after watching a bunch of your videos I’ve realised I’ve maybe wasted my money, I think I’m not sure if my paints will work together and I know I’ve now gotta buff and polish my clear because it’s not 2k. Next time I’ll order my paint from you. I’m really confused because I thought I was buying all enamel spray initially, but when I read the fine print on two of them they say acrylic enamel.

Love to see you do a full car in spray can, I want to spray mine but dont have a booth to spray it in, could I use cans for full car

Would like to see when the hard edge around the wheel is fixed so that it’s sharp again. In this it’s sanded and the edge is rounded more than it should be, so you’ll be able to see the repair more obviously . Wish you guys were in Melbourne. Would be great to go in and learn off you guys.

"Damn! Your good... Too damn good'!! Lol. Loved your video, and I learned somethan new.. thanks to you!!

Just the video I was looking for. Will definitely order paint and clear from the website.

Top work, thanks for the instruction

Your truly an artist!

You did well with tin cans, impressive 👍

I’ve had a scenario where I have laid my 2k clear (in a can) and have had those clear line solvents shown in 12:40 and never disappeared. I’m curious what the best fix is for that and as to why mine never went away? I’ve recently discovered your channel and wish that i knew about this channel 4 years ago. Very informative and detailed videos! Cheers

This guy is GREAT

Awesome video! It makes me want to spray paint 😍 Best regards from Sweden

Great video

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC CHEERS FROM SYDNEY

Amazing video. Your videos are great and very informative. Thanks

Perfect video. Thanks from the netherlands

This was an amazing tutorial. Thanks a lot for sharing!

Hey Dave - Excellent Video. I have a question - does this mean I can do a DIY/Home car resto paint job using the safer 1K for all layers, and then take it to a spray booth to do a 2K clear and it will be just as awesome as doing 2K for each layer as you still get your UV resistance and toughness of 2K in the last clear layer?

Absolutely awesome, very very good video. Thanks!

Great tips. If people are looking for a good clear coat from Bunnings. I used Dulux Duramax crystal clear the other day, several light coats then a wet coat. It really is crystal clear, super shinny & drys quick. $12 a can. I'd been using Rustolium products, but the Duramax paints are a far better paint in my opinion. The only problem I had, is I couldn't get a dark bottle green. So had to use Rustolium Hunter Green base coat, the darkest they had. That still wasn't dark enough. It seems a really dark green is something the paint companies could work on.

Hey man, can you make a private video list or something, I would happily pay for it to learn, I'm a hands on learner ,I just want to learn and you are very confident and knowledgeable, to upload more of these, sorry if my grammar is terrible, I'm just so excited when I find videos that I've been looking for.

Awesome! Hands down the BEST video I've seen on how to blend in a repair. Thank you! Unfortunately, my van's slider door requires some rust/paint repair on all 4 sides, so I will have to paint edge to edge. Light blue metallic. I have a very good paint match based on my test card. Should I paint edge to edge and see what the butt match looks like, then go back to blending into the adjacent panels (rear qtr panel and front door) if noticeable? Or just blend from the start?

Thank you for sharing Greetings from Indonesia 🇮🇩

11 dislikes are from people who provide for their families with this kind of work

Very informative great channel keep up the great work you do

Nice work.

Great technique man and really good tips on prep and paint.😎👍👍👍

Another great vid

Amazing video, thank you

Great instructional video .thanks great help .

Hello mate. I love your videos. I’ve seen many of them. I wanted to ask you if you could do a video repairing a fender on an arch body line with a spray can. In London, I’ve seen lots of cars with front fender damage including myself but my dent is on the arch body line and I can’t seem to get the body line on the arch correct with body filler and I don’t know how to. If you did video with a fender arch damage on body line, that would help a lot. Thanks mate

Sweet mate, will be using the 2k clear

This sorta stuff will send body shops broke hahaha

Thanks for the videos. I've learned a lot from your channel. Great job 👍

Really nice job

thanks, it is a very usefull video.

Love you video’s gives me the confidence to try to fix my 944 , do you have a video showing how to blend in new paintwork to older paint work say from door to front fender (wing) ?

Amazing video mate, very professional 👍🏻😀 any tips, I’m spraying my 2003 accord in white, would love some tips on prep work and what clear coat to use

Hello Dave. Thanks for making another great video on how to do a great job painting with Spray cans. I noticed a number of times how when your taking in the distance it's hard to hear what your saying because that area realy echos and the way the mic picks up all ofbthose sound. So between your accent, how fast you speak and that echo I can't pick up some of the words you are speaking. Thank you

Great job

Very nice! Subbed from Canada!

Hi, would love to see you mix and shoot a custom light satin rose gold paint on rims. Seems like no one in Australia knows how to make this particular colour...

Good job bro👍🏼🔥😃 Nice job👍🏼 Very nice😃

Great detailed video. Thank you. I am going to paint a large car with rattle cans (1970 300 Chrysler Convertible) I'm concerned that because it's so large it will take too long to get get my topcoat on before base dries. Should I just do each section individually or try to work faster. The rear quarter panels are connected as one large piece around the trunk so concerned as it's not separate pieces

So good and cool, man! Thanks a lot!

VERY NICE. NOW TELL ME HOW CAN I GET SPRAY BOTTLE. THANKS & REGARDS KASHINATH DAS

Excellent video

Excellent 👍

First, thanks for producing this video. Second, I have a few questions needing answers and clarification. 1) What is the main purpose for Primer coat? (You did not apply primer to entire panel. So why apply Primer only to sanded section?). 2.) You used a scuff pad on the outer areas surrounding the repaired scratch then applied base coat to sanded area then scuffed area of full panel. But, what happens if you do not scuff outer area and only cleaned with wax/grease removal then applied base coat? 3.). Does surface always need to be scuffed or sanded prior to base coat application? ( what is ideal grit to use?) 4) what is an ideal distance to hold can away from surface while spray painting panel? ; and 5) Is “orange peel” look the result of holding spray nozzle too far away from painted surface? 6) I noted you did not use any filler or glazing spot putty after sanding away scratch. Why not in this case?

Very good finish considering it's from spray cans but surely you are still better off with a compressor and gun, if you have them?

Nice! Cheers from Denmark :)

Great video and I’m thinking to attempt the scratches on a Subaru that I own. Just a quick question, can I use 2k paint outside a spray booth? Or if I am using a garage to paint am I better off with a 1k paint then sanding and buffing?

Can't wait to randomly watch a video from Q2 2020 in ten years and remember bierflüe

I've watched this 3 times ... now to go out and try my new skills on my wife's Rav4 😂

Good to see another video. I'm having problems with my new paint being affected by petrol. Im using acrylic base and clear on motorcycle bits, but if there is a fuel leak or anything it ruins it. What paint should I be using?

So nice work done. Big like 👍

Awesome job

Come do a class in Seattle when this pandemic is over!

Very good information!

Excellent tutorial dave, could you do a guide maybe on the spray mask equipment you're using perhaps one day? that 2K is nasty stuff so im always curious what filters/masks you guys recommend for small jobs like this.