How to Spray Epoxy Primer with Kevin Tetz - Tips for Mixing & Painting Your Car - Eastwood

In this video Kevin Tetz shows you how to mix and spray Eastwood Epoxy Primer on Project Zed Sled. Epoxy primer is the one of the most crucial steps to getting a perfect paint job by sealing off the surface before you lay down the color and clear.


Eastwood Epoxy Primer:

Gray, White & Black Epoxy Primer 1:1 primes and seals with excellent adhesion and corrosion resistance Eastwood's Gray, White & Black automotive epoxy primers are user-friendly, 2-component primer/sealer that dries fast and maintains good color hold-out on steel, aluminum, fiberglass, body fillers and existing finishes.
Gray, White or Black color
Easy 1:1 mixing with separate catalyst
Sands easily 2-3 days after application
Contains no lead, chromate or isocyanates

CONCOURS PRO PAINT GUN:

Professional quality full size HVLP paint gun, without the professional price

The Eastwood Concours PRO HVLP paint gun goes head-to-head with the top spray guns from the big brands, but at a price the home user can afford. The precision machine work used to produce this gun provides ultra-fine atomization of coatings and years of durability. It features stainless steel internal passages, so it can be used with solvent and waterborne coatings without fear of reaction or corrosion. Engineered specifically to work with smaller air compressors, it requires some of the lowest CFM of any high volume low pressure paint gun on the market.

Professional quality at a DIY price
Low CFM – Full size gun 6.5CFM @ 30PSI
Ultra-fine atomization from 1.3mm needle/nozzle
Compatible with all types of coatings
Full line of accessories available

Eastwood is your source for automotive Tips and How-To's, we pride ourselves in providing all the information and techniques needed on nearly every part of vehicle restoration. We not only provide you with the products, we show you how to use them the right way to DO THE JOB RIGHT.We not only provide you with the products, we show you how to use them to DO THE JOB RIGHT.

You'll get a lot of great tips and tricks along the way that will help you do a great job when you spray your car.

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[sonicnofadz]

ive been using this epoxy primer for 10 years. Friggin love it. Spray it with 1.3 tip via tekna prolite, lays flat as glass every time (no reducer needed). Against bare steel, the adhesion is extremely strong, to remove it you must grind it off. Very awesome product for the price paid

[eastwoodco]

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[hotheadzmarine]

You are a mentor to many and certainly to me and my man here I am teaching with your videos to paint my 40 year old Camaro. God Bless You and Eastwood. keep um coming.

[iDomoPolyForums]

I've been using this over the past few weeks, and from what I can tell, it's a good product. Time will tell as to whether it lasts.

[joshfarrell]

Would you also sand this with 400 for a solid base paint or from all the prior work its ok to just shoot the base after?

[mattg]

What kind of respirator/filters would you recommend when spraying this paint?

[younghonor]

I wanna see the finished product! thanks for the info, you've taught me alot. .

[td]

New to using epoxy primer, unsure what to use to clean the paint gun? I didn't see anything on either can regarding clean up. And I don't want to end up ruining a new paint gun. I have the Eastwood Contour Pro gun.

[CaptnGeetch]

He said he sprayed the Epoxy Primer with the 1:3 tip. The product info says use 1:4-1:8. So what is it ? Also how many microns was the strainer ? Nothing in Eastwoods info about it. I found info elsewhere that said 80 microns for solvent based epoxy primer. Only ones I see on the site is 190 & 226

[bighoudini]

I bought the black epoxy from Eastwood sturd it well spray it and when it dried it came out brown and dull seemed like real cheep watery stuff. Spi products is the way to go.

[Chickmonk]

The TDS says you can reduce 20% with a quality urethane primer (when would you do this and is 20% the max it should be reduced). Is it better to reduce when using as a sealer before base coat or shoot it as you did here full strength? Will reducing give less chance of orange peel?

[nortoncommando]

There is a base of black primer already ? You can spray on new bare metal..correct??

[deankay]

Is there information on a “Salt Spray” test in hours so a choice can be made comparing apples to apples? Or do I have to find that info in the TDS sheets?
Thanks.

[dalejustice]

I am getting ready to paint my motorcycle fairings. The new fairings will need to be sanded. But my question is. Can I just use the primer epoxy, sealer n skip just using regular primer? Also in your video you was using the Concour Pro paint, clear gun. The newest one you all have is the EastWood cc500. Would you consider this a better gun than the Concour Pro? I know this is a lil old of a video, n I watch yr videos quit a bit. Hope all is well! Thanks God Bless!!

[petegrunert]

Getting ready to paint my 75 Corvette bodywork and rough primer done what should go next Apoxy primer or 2K primer?

[kentyancey]

I have a old sears sprayer with #35 tip will this work

[worldstrongest]

Great video now this may sound stupid but I'd like to know how to use the sata rps cups I could you please please make a video on that with the ratio of 4:1:10 I'm using the rm primer

[venezia]

let me ask, can i start spraying 2k urethane primer right over the epoxy primer sealer. i am wanting to build up the primer some more. i am wanting to spray the urethane primer maybe about 1 hour after the epoxy sealer

[cubul]

1.3 mm for the sealer? Did you reduce the 1:1 further?

[Soundofthetimes]

When is the proper time to use a sealer? I've finished my metalwork and have already done some light fill to level things out. Should I do a polyester primer first, block it out and then lay the sealer followed by basecoat, or do I do the sealer first? I keep finding conflicting information.