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What is your settings for clearcoat?

You have the number for new one.?

I bought it. What is your settings.?

hey Jack, I'm a DIY'er in the UK, I have an FLG5. You will have found demonstrations and reviews on this gun, good ones being Tony's refinishing and The Gunman. They both rate it as great quality for the money. I agree, but the only thing you have to be careful with is that in the UK it is only available with a 1.4mm fluid tip, which is a tiny bit big for thinner paints like solvent basecoat. I tend to use the FLG5 for clearcoat only, because as a DIY'er you will be using HS clearcoat and will have the fluid dialled back from full, otherwise runs are very easy to get. It has a well big enough fan, I dial mine back a little which uses a bit less air. The finish I get is perfect with negligible orange peel. I have sprayed 3 cars with it now, it has been stripped down and cleaned many times and still works perfectly. Hope this helps.

Get the FLG-5 You'll be happy with it, or the Sharpe Finex 3000. That's it. Both guns under 300.00

I’m being using ls400 for metallics and work incredible🤷🏽.

Yes 27-29

@@PaintSociety thank you 😄👍

Plus is just for water base

@@PaintSociety thanks for the reply, just found somewhat of a data sheet on it and it uses less air and can operate at a higher pressure than the original

I am pretty sure he has a video using a turbine setup.

@@rlr69 Thank you I'll check it out.

You don’t want to use a clear coat and hardener. They make a mid coat clear that you put the flake in.. you spray it on after the base color.. (spray the base and let it flash.. then spray the mid coat clear with flake.. let it flash) then you use a Clear coat and hardener. They are totally different products and when done properly you don’t have to sand between the base coats and mid coats etc

@@bodyshopsolutions695 thank you for your response, ok it was more of a cost saving measure since i already have tamco clear from a past project but a clear base makes sense so i’ll get that & apply the metal flake after the base color( in my case the sealer serves has a silver basecoat from house of kolor) then the candy correct? or does it matter if the flake goes after or before the candy to get a deeper metal flake effect? it’s my first time doing a 3 stage. i have a few projects under my belt & on my last project i was able to do a silver metallic without any stripping lol my confidence led me here, were i will surely f*k it up but i will learn. thank you again for your response, it means alot that you guys are willing to help us out

@@RPistano problem! I would do the silver, then do the candy, then the clear base with flake, then the clear coat

You ain’t lyin. My shop got a cheap StartingLine base and primer kit from Amazon and I spend more time buffing and wet sanding after the fact than I do actual painting.

@@drillosophy1012 yeh I know exactly what you mean…we used to have a problem with gloss levels, the next day we would see drop back and lost shine. After so much effort to finish the job it was so annoying…We showed the rep and he upgraded our products and the very next job the paint still looked totally wet the next morning ! (I had to check it was cured!) it was definitely cured but it was just a o shiny and glossy it still looked wet….what a difference! That was when I realised we had been fighting the products for years.

So your telling me theres a chance

Man I started out painting outside. Then I got a canopy. Now I'm in an old uninsulated garage with a dirt floor. The paint jobs all look good though. Just get out there and do it.

That’s what I’m doing this year is working on my technique

I was taught at the end of each pass to release the trigger but only to the point where paint stops coming through but the air continues to flow. It was drummed into me that you must never release the trigger completely. Mind you, this was back in the days of cellulose and single layer metallics.

@@ConesuelaLadyTailor Exactly!

You guys are not wrong I always release the trigger. But I do it quite fast

You can spray it both ways. The difference is partially releasing the trigger will save a tiny amount of material. Do it whatever way you feel comfortable and get the results you want.

Also, he's most likely releasing it halfway so that the fluid is cut off for a fraction of a second but not the air.

You are supposed to chase the wet edge when painting, if the fan is inconsistent it's likely the gun is dirty or your distance from the panel is fluctuating during the process

Not on my regulator lol

Sikkens Standox ppg

Good idea

G’day mate well I have the exact same gun as you a DV1 1.3 C2 that gun is by basically based off the prolite TE20 1.3 Just remember that the DV1 likes 2 bar pressure or 28-29 psi I set mine up just under 2 bar have the fluid at 3 turns out from closed The fan all the way out and wind in till the analog gauge bumps up then I stop it’s a beast that way and have the gun 5-6 inches away from the panel. Goodluck with it N mate👍

Are you spraying lacquer over the existing paint? I've never sprayed that kind of line and I know it's very finicky. What I can say is you cannot mix different types of paint because they will adversely react with one another

I’m sorry. I haven’t but plan to !

@Paint Society brain I have question for you which one of these clears is the highest shine / spies hecker 8035 HS or sikken 2pack HS they both mix 2.1 ratio

How was it after a month of using it?

The w400 and ws400 are not hvlp both run on 29psi for optimal results and yes over spray is very prominent when using either gun

For clear you do not want an HVLP you want an RP or a regular gun or something in between and hybrid that's where the w400 comes in it is my number one go-to gun I believe I've had it for almost 20 years now it can do bass and other heavier products for base I use lph 400 my w400 is an lv4 with a waterborne tip with the three Cuts tulip tip

Longtime painter, I’ve used the 5500 and just can’t get it to lay down smooth. So much orange peel compared to my iwata supernova like glass .