yea it is all about not reducing the clear and letting the blender do the work. when the blender softens the old clear it melts it into it like putting a second coat on. @@brbert02
That was a great explanation of your thought process. It's been a while since I've played with a blending agent, your vid was an excellent refresher course for me, thanks for sharing.
Started using R-M Base coat Clear coat back in the Early 80's. When I gave up the business back in 93 I was using a lot of PPG and it did a good job for me.
That's pretty cool. I never knew something like that existed. I did bodywork about 27 years ago. Great skill to have, been able to save a lot of money over the years on my own stuff.
Great stuff ! Good tricks to learn ! I have a few minor repairs coming up so this is very helpful. I had good results about 12 yrs ago with DuPont 7600 super productive clear and the blender in the clear. Now I will try it like this with blending thinner in aerosal can. Thanks !
that spray can was 30 bucks but it goes a long way. there is one by that spray can clear company called spray max that works well and I think it is a bit cheaper but they were out of it. Sure is easy to use that spray can no set up time.
Excellent job looks awesome on the video. Getting ready to do similar repair on my jag but it's a silver metallic so I'm shitting my self that its gonna have one spot that's a bit darker. Luckily i have to clear coat the whole panel so I dont have to worry about blending clearcoat at least.
Great video, thank you. I had a mark on the trunk of my car. I ordered touch of paint that matches the color. The paint job I did was extremely difficult to notice until I applied the clear coat. Once I applied the clear coat, the spot that I painted darkened. I definitely didn’t feather the paint either but I did try. What troubles me the most is what mistake I made with the clear coat that darkened the color of the touch up paint.
I agree. I don't know what he doesn't like it, all Valspar paints are good. Especially the house paint from Lowe's. Ten times better than the Behr crap from Home Depot.
That clear will start peeling in about 6 months to a year. Take the time and clear the whole panel. I’ve been painting for 25 years and would never do a job like this.
Our painters would've gotten me to take all the glass out, the wheels off and the motor out to paint that panel. Doing it this way however you will see the wet out in 6 months come back. Safer and easier to just clear the whole panel. If you don't want an unhappy customer don't do wet outs and keep your good reputation.
So you are saying it is going to have problems one day soon? I wonder why so many blend when its not going to hold up? Its a nice way of telling your clients, hang on, let us do a half ass job for you and get you in and out in a day. Then you can come back in six months and we will charge you much more for a full paint!
@@MrCbell57 correct also, if you rubbed your fingers where he blended on the edge you’d feel it, like mentioned above, better to at least wet sand and polish the edge of repair. He does state in the video he normally does that but didn’t want to on this repair
I had some paint pull off next to my masked windows wanna try to touch it up thank u for video. I had fish eye in base coat. I was told to put a nice "wet coat " on my base coat. but figured out. light cotes worked better
yea for sure you gotta spray especially that valspar very dry. not too much reducer. which sucks compared to the old stuff. it will work but I would not recommend doing it on a hood or roof.
Good job. I don't see how the blend will stay on there since the clear coat was not sanded at all. Just curious how you can spray clear on top of clear without any prep work? I don't get it.
Nice video, blend Machanic’s are good, I would have 3000 wet grit past my clear blend edge then 3000 wet buff the next day. I would be too afraid my blend edge will peel back doing the way you did. I always 3000 wet past my blend edge and use adhesion promoter, never peels.
I’m priming, sanding, top coating and clear coating a rocker panel repair on a VW. I am using Duplicolor matching paint and a 2k aerosol clear coat spray by Eastwood. I think a 2k blending solvent will work for this. Can you confirm? GREAT VIDEO!
hey mike, ive been doing spot painting for a while now and love your videos. which gun are you using here and what size tips for base and clear coat? i was using sata minijet 4400 before at 18-20 psi 1.4 tip i think...
this is my cheap spray it LVLP. similar to Sata but not nearly as good. 1.4 about 10lbs of pressure. Literally almost no overspray. Doing this in a place that I didnt want fall out. That is why so many people have so much hate on this video because they have no idea what I was trying to accomplish.
@@Mikefngarage thank you, is there alot of cloud created? I dont have a spray booth but i want to try painting in my shop thats 30ft high and about 20 ft wide, problem is we have neighbors in the units next to us and their doors are pretty close. I want to try to keep the fumes and cloud low as possible to avoid complaints. do you have a link to purchase that gun? i purchased devilblis starting line today with 1.0 tip base coat gun and 1.4 tip i think as well as an extra needle with 1.8 . i had good results before with cheaper guns. No worries I understand your work because I always had to work in mobile and learn to work against the elements and contamination. its completely different from paint booths!
GUYS BEFORE YOU MAKE A NEGATIVE COMMENT car done ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oCVpx4m6ieg.html. you need to understand how hard it is to make a video with the camera in the way I needed to stand to the side a bit. That messes up my style so if you think the job is choppy or spray is not even that is why. It was not and looks perfect. Making a video and actually doing the work are 2 totally different things.
I always use cans as I never had airguns before. Now I'm thinking of getting one. May I ask if you have a percentage of mixing your clear coat? Do you have a video on that? Also are you safe working with Clear coating while having nothing on your face. Isn't breathing that in is actually dangerous? Thanks
I dont see how you say valspar aint very good. I have been painting sense 94 and and I've used Dupont, PPG, HOK, Valspar, sikkens, sherwin williams, and many others like junk Western. I have stuff in magazines and I do paint repairs and now days mostly custom frame off automotive restoration and did class A motorhomes and HOK and valspar is the samething and most custom shops use what I use. The stuff lays out and holds up awesome. I got cars that I've done 20 yrs ago in it and there still getting trophies and they get drive on the street get drag raced and people think the paint is still fresh. I blend/melt in different but if it works and last that's what matters because there's many ways to do things.
yea and you should see some of the ones I deleted LOL. I just couldnt stand seeing them some people are all talk and dont understand how hard it is to do the work and make a video all by yourself. talking and trying to spray. I did this video totally candid. Just decided to do it at the last minute. otherwise I would have explained the method of masking. I am planning on doing another since there was so much interest.
Some of overspray went on the floor and some went into this guys lungs. For all you painters out there, the first step should be to put on a correct spray mask, not a dust mask and to get in the habit of doing this every single time you spray. If you don't do it, that's up to you.
thanks for watching....seems like the negatives aren't observant enough to notice the tape is folded on the body line so it wont leave any edge or signs of tape line. Or that the blend is really smooth or that the clear is super smooth or the base was shot on really dry with lots of air not to load it up. Or that there was almost no over spray from the gun I was using. Or the fact I was shooting this live and making a video is much harder than just doing the job. This was just a last minute touch up on a paint job I did for a friend who has Parkinsons. I just had a run to sand out through that body line and sanded through it took me about 30 minutes total to do the repair and touch it up. The entire car was already buffed so I didnt want to shoot clear over the whole fender.
Great video. Is there a way to get rid of sharp edges?? I didn’t tape properly while doing my painting the left side of my front bumper so I was left with some Noticeable lines unfortunately.
Hey man ,Good Video , lots of people will benefit from this effort,if it works that way for you , good deal,every painter has his own way , lots of those ways will work , Of the thousands of spot jobs I have done I never sprayed like you , ive seen other painters who don't paint like me or you,alot of ways will work , i put on lighter coats, wait for a tac time , tac between coats on the base , tac time between clearcoats, Tho it works for you , i won't knock it The only thing i dis agree w you on is Dupont sucks , dont cover good , sherwin williams is the good schit , even matches better, Pat ato , or patato, jimthebodyman im not the best but 9 out of the 10 best send me Christmas Cards
Wow, not what I just witnessed here, but wow, this guy is talented, would assume the rattle can paint clear to be soft and have no longevity,... but I don't paint cars.
Who ever painted that before you spotted it, done a hack job, it looked like it was put on with a roller, your spot job matched it perfectly the orange peel and runs were terrible, also you put you color and clear on too fast and too heavy, there was no step down, no patients, no passion, no commitment to quality, slow down you could do much better. However you did match it to the previous paint job. I commend you for that. What ever makes the customer happy....
Im a bit confused when applying new clear coat over old coat, at 6:50 mark I see you applied clear coat beyond the scuffed area, that wouldn't adhere properly wouldn't it ??
Yes ... that's the purpose of the can, it's a clear coat blender (reducer) - BUT : spray it VERY lightly, overlapping old an new clear. Essentially, it dissolves the old clear coat and allows your new one to "bleed" or "blend" into it.
Doesn't seem whatever trade is shown on RU-vid the haters beat the presenter down. Bodymen, carpenters, plumbers the haters tear into them. With painters, it can look good on camera, but in person, it looks like hell. I wouldn't have a channel, too much hate.
yea well the video of the car all done speaks for itself a link at the top of the video except nobody watches it. they just want to comment crap. Thanks for the word s of wisdom. I know my work is nice and I do it for the likers not the haters.
look a little closer the tape is folded a way not to leave an edge. If you fold your tape into 3rds it wont leave any signs of an edge yet an edge. there is no line or edge or blend mark at or near the body line nothing. I have a video on that subject.
here is another video of the car done I just barely buffed that no color sanding and no signs of blend or tape. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7fpZNTyc4qo.html
here is the car all done you moron. I am teaching this stuff not you... watch this and shut the fuck up ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7fpZNTyc4qo.html
You’re right you never clear over an unsanded area that’s paint 101. On a blend you don’t even clear past the sand marks you blend the small sanded area left into the clear. I painted with a guy that would clear past his sanding, he chased a lot if blend lines until he figured it out. It’s clear this guy was maybe a shop hand in the past but not a painter. He’s obsessed with orange peel. It’s very easy to paint orange peel free you make sure you’re getting the type of atomization you want. Adjust fan and flow. If you adjust one you need to adjust the other. Orange peel can occur for many other reasons. Products reacting together, base and primer, or base primer and clear not fully cured. The biggest reason I see is inconsistent drying. Clear forms a skin then hit late with a heat lamp or outside a temp change. Or spraying like shit. In this case he doesn’t have a compressor with enough cfm to paint so he’s making all kinds of adjustments on the gun to suit his needs. In the case of “ they don’t make paints like they used to” lol I’m guessing he got the paint shop to to add the reducer for him. You can have the paint as thick as you want. the purpose of reducer is to make the paint or clear sprayable depending on the nozzle set up. The biggest red flag is how he lays the color and clear. Dude is all over the place. You want even coverage. While I respect the diy aspect of this he shouldn’t bill himself as any sort of professional or retired lol. This is the reason I have painters do working interviews. I’m a certified painter and trainer. If this guy was any good he would have a proper set up even if you’re “retired”. You acquire so much equipment over the years and you never get rid basic tools of your craft. The obsession with orange peel is funny if you’d like I can upload a video of a proper blend and explain how to paint in a quarter of the time.
I like other stuff but that is what the budget called for. Matrix was better but I dont know now since valspar bought them. Auto art and Tamco are far superior and about the same price. I just couldn't wait for the mail order. Painted this for a buddy who has parkinson's and was loosing his mobility quickly had to get it done so he could drive it.
Hey that's a great job, it looks great and you spent more time on it than any other mobile job I've seen done, dont sweat the negative comments you know there's always some haters that think they need to make some B.S. comment, the only thing you left out was the cost of the job and how long it took.
thanks for watching....seems like the negatives aren't observant enough to notice the tape is folded on the body line so it wont leave any edge or signs of tape line. Or that the blend is really smooth or that the clear is super smooth or the base was shot on really dry with lots of air not to load it up. Or that there was almost no over spray from the gun I was using. Or the fact I was shooting this live and making a video is much harder than just doing the job. This was just a last minute touch up on a paint job I did for a friend who has Parkinsons. I just had a run to sand out through that body line and sanded through it took me about 30 minutes total to do the repair and touch it up. The entire car was already buffed so I didnt want to shoot clear over the whole fender.
people making instructional videos of how to do something the wrong way.never ever paint over gloss,and this aint a blend ,this is paint and clear up to a rolled edge....not a blend.never ever use one heavy coat of clear,always let flash and use at least 2 coats.no pic of unmasking,it will show a hard edge...i been painting cars since 82
If u would've used scuff soap and scuffed the whole fender u wouldn't have to use the blender u could've just cleared the whole fender it's much easier and looks a lot better
not for that small touch up under the body line. The top of that fender is like an airport runway to buff. sorry dude it just wasn't happening. and turned out perfect. Car still looks perfect today. watch the video on the link.
tape is folded in 3rds. sorry I didnt address that. no hard edge here is the car all done. barely polished that area no color sanding. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7fpZNTyc4qo.html
The problem I'm having with spot painting is that it forms a halo/ring around the spot I'm painting. I don't know how to fix that. It would be great if you can help.
I just painted the car this was a last minute spot repair. I dont usually use it either. the spray way glass cleaner works well enough. no fisheyes in that panel.
thanks chris some guys dont get this. The product softened the underlying substrate so the clear will adhere. That is correct and the reason you use the product. if you put too much on it will wrinkle.
Im not a professional painter by any means but i sure can paint well and know how the products work thanks to my gpa, been painting for years, its all in the prep work 95%prep 5%spray
awsome dude I appreciate a person who is calming the trolls on my site with some common sense knowledge. That blender helps the clear blend and adhere to the underlying clear. you are right. so many guys just dont get it.
If clear is sprayed on to non sanded existing clear, it will eventually separate. Blending solvent will not soften up existing clear. Wherever the clear lands needs to be scratched so the blending solvent can melt the two clearcoats together.
It needs to be sanded for a lasting repair.3M white scuff pad,2000-3000 grit wet sandpaper,or even Ajax will work.This is why insurance companies in this area don't allow a burn in.
@@randycrowe2698 look at were it is and what it is on. If it was on a hood then you would have a point under a body line that repair will outlast the owner of that car.
you havta be joking right! Everyone read the negative comments ! They are all correct in that this is bad . It will be peeling in a month. Pay a Trained pro if you care about car . If you try this ,most likely you have to then pay more to fix the mess. I swear it looks like this was shot in the 80's. or early 90's I mean dang who still uses paper and the wheel cover? LMFAO!!!
It is my LVLP by spray it. Great gun for small stuff because it makes almost no over spray. Very little anything on this pproject, Then the spray technique was to also not make overspray. I didnt want to wipe out stuff in the area or breathe too much while I was talking. If you notice there is no cloud and there was no fans in the garage touch up.
I've been painting professionally since 1992... sheer amateur work being done here! If you want that job done right... sand the entire panel with 1000 or 1200 grit. Sand the primer with 500 dry or 400 wet sand. His blend area was non existent. 1st coat barely covers (the primed area only) each additional coat should extend a little past the previous, allowing 15 minutes flash between coats. Some base coats require 3 coats, some take as many as 6 coats. Make sure you fan outwards away from the primed area. You can add some slower drying reducer to the final coats to help get the color translucent so the blend is almost un noticeable. Remember.... a tack cloth is your best friend, (but dont tack it too quickly... allow plenty of flash time) Once the color is blended, then put at least 3 coats of clear on the entire panel. Doing it this way, you wont have to worry about a milky edge showing in the melt in area of the clear. Also you dont have to worry about trying to buff the edge of the clear. IF YOU DO HAVE TO BLEND THE CLEAR like he did. ALWAYS REMEMBER! When buffing the melt in area of the clear, MAKE SURE that the buffing pad spins off of the new clear onto the old clear. This will help keep from seeing a halo or milky line between the new and old clear. If you spin the buffing pad from the old clear onto the new... your basically peeling back the new clear off of the old. This greatly magnifies the the blended area, it's just not the best way to do a blend... but many peopl do it any ways.
opinions opinions and NOBODY has looked at the video of the car all done 800 views. OMG seriously stop making a fool our of yourselves and look at the link of the car all done. I was doing a repair to a small area after the whole car was just painted. Link on the video all over the place.
there are no cheap clear guns. You can use any gun to spray clear but if you want to get it smooth on a flat vertical panel you gotta use a good gun cheapest good clear gun is the Tekna prolite by devilbiss. The best compromise that is cheap is the pro line harbor freight 69$ gun but they dont really compare. If you buy a tekna it will take some getting used to watch the gunman for setup. thanks for watching.
Can get an iwata w400 bellaria 1.4 for about $260 on amazon they lay down the clear and basecoat nicely but of course you still may not get the finish you're looking for if your technique and gun settings are incorrect.
@aaron anderson those are ok. just depends on what your spraying a super flat panel like a vw bus in my other video you really need a good gun or the slight orange peel will come and get you even after color sand.
too bad You never ever blow dry a clear coat because it’s not paint to get dry, it gives the clear coat a bad structure And the paint application could be better if you could just blend the paint with some paint fog The clear coat fall because you didn’t applied it in a proper way
I love the negative comments guys here is the car all done tell me there is a sign of that blend. NOTHING ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7fpZNTyc4qo.html
@ Or stack the clear the way it was done in this vid. This is the main cause of solvent pop! You need to let the solvents flash off between coats.(flash time) My high build primer lays flatter than that clear laid down! Got to be cautious of temp, air pressure, and technique Alot of wrongs in this vid... rstreets is right, you dont clear past your prepped area
been there done that It wont peel. Listen the clear blender melts the undercoat a bit to let it adhere to the underneath substrate. that is the reason for using the product. If you try to blend into a scuffed area it will look like crap.
@ u are correct today i had to fix somebody challenger cuz the person sprayed the new clear past the repair area on the old clear without any scuffing on them and he used a blender on them when i tried to correct all the overspray and etc the clear had a whole.line going around it since the new clear didnt melt into the old clear on the hood since there was no mechanical bond for it
i use both sprayway glass cleaner andsolvent base wax and grease remover it cuts everything between those too products. better than water and solvent precleano.
You didn’t use wax and grease remover on this job. If you did you should show it so people see. That’s probably why you had the little fish eyes. Also I get it if you don’t have a booth or a paint suit but at least put on gloves as you’re touching the panel. Everyone has their own way of doing it but if you’re gonna teach people at least tell them what they should be doing. Good luck
