How to Paint - Blending Basecoat

As the Spectrophotometer outage continues BASF is pulled in to provide a good colormatch on my 300 or 300C quarter panel.

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[LoucaPSD]

If you do have problems with people blowing dust outside the booth, a trick i used to do was to create a puddle of water outside the booth doors near the shuts, helps catch dirt traveling in the booth

[SmittysVtMade]

It's probably not dust it could be over spray drying on the plastic and then coming lose when your air burst hits it, there's a few ways to fix it up your exhaust flow so it pulls it away for the filters to contain, if that's not a option try using different masking I've always had better luck with paper masking then plastic

[ChasingPerfection]

Spraying water sucks. I'm glad I don't have to anymore. The white spec you had in the panel. I'm pretty sure that is the toner breaking down. I was having that issue with certain colors using PPG envirobase. I pin pointed it to colors with the white toner used in it. Those specs only seem to pop out of the gun later in the base process. Never in the 1st few coats when the paint has been recently mixed. I used a waterbourne strainer in addition to the PPS lid.

[Refinishnetwork]

Not at all, appreciate the input! I was having a hard time getting that onyx to lay out, hadn't sprayed it in a while.

[Refinishnetwork]

It's not great at the moment. The filters are clogged and it's a massive amount of negative pressure, when I open the door it's like a massive vacuum of air coming in. We've been holding off until the air make-up unit gets installed which should be completed by the end of the week. The filter style I was told is being changed along with it. They were supposed to be by a month ago, normally I'd of changed the filters long ago.Currently this booth has no controls for decreasing the cabin pressure.

[chrisl]

when you paint quarter panel do you have to remove your door ? :)

[ChasingPerfection]

An older guy once told me. Don't pull your trigger at anything you don't want paint on. Going past the edge of a hood, or quarter blows air past the panel kicking up dirt and whatever from the floor, walls etc.

1:43-2:02 you can watch your overspray travel across the panel causing your "dirt" aka dry spray. Which on a 1st coat of clear will look like a shit load of dirt was thrown at the panel.

[delltek]

I have damage on rear quarter panel and bumper, both will be repaired
and painted, is it required and recommended to blend with rear trunk and
rear door. My shop tells me they will be blending, insurance company is
getting me run around. Insurance company tells me to rope off rear
quarter panel window rather than removing to proper painting.

[floridaroadracerguy]

Looks good Jimmo but what you are calling "a coat" looks like 5 or 6 coats because you are spraying the same spot over and over in one shot (with lots of overlap). It looks like about 6 wet coats per "coat". Have you noticed that?

[LoucaPSD]

I think the reason for the dirt was the small blow in to fill the white spec, instead of dirt i think it may have been dry over spray/ metallic stand up....

[Refinishnetwork]

Anythings possible, the entire job turned out the same way, Even area's high on the sail panel with no color, orientation coat...etc. It actually looked good until about 2-3 minutes after which made me think it was the guy blowing off the bodyfiller in front of my booth. Who knows, glad i don't have to think about it anymore!

[seattleyuri]

How come you didn't spray a wet bed for the blending this time?

[bmwezhp]

How many coats of clear odd you put on?

[Refinishnetwork]

I've turned out an awful lot of clean jobs with the same gun control, but suggestion noted! thanks

[justinjohnson]

Is this a solvent or water based paint you are using?

[AustinKelly]

i have an atv with painted plastics, and i want to repaint them a different color.  how would i go about doing that? would i need to strip all the old paint? if so how? or could i just primer it then repaint over it? please get back to me asap

[TheGrifa]

The so called "Dust" was not Dust at all. The "Dust " you were referring to was small beads of Waterborne overspray. You need to apply the Waterborne Base Coat slightly different than Solvent Base. Use the Blending Clear provided first before laying down your base. After a quick flash peroid apply your base coat. It will allow the Waterborne Overspray to melt into the blending clear avoiding costly reworks and Complete Panel Sanding and Polishing. Yes there was some dust in the job, but most of that was Waterborne Overspray which is why it seemed to melt into the Orange Peel on you're Clear coat. Remember when all else fails... Refer to "MAJIK HANDZ" or the TDS. Keep on Spraying, Brother 👍

[Velvethamma]

It's no fun painting in a dirty environment for sure. I have to denib all my work due to the conditions I paint in. Good vid

[ChasingPerfection]

If it was a color that took say 5 coats including blend. I'd restrain it between 3-4 to catch the toner that wasn't mixing well anymore. You should notice a bunch of shit left in the strainer lol. Thank you CA for pending waterboure laws.

[ChasingPerfection]

That is also a bad habit because the dry spray will lighten the color and could bite you in the butt with color match on the adjacent panels. All things that will never be picked up in photos or video. In person someone who knows what they are looking at will pick that up. Informational videos, I hope you don't take my comments harsh and add to your current knowledge. As a painter, the learning never stops and there's always some knowledge that can make you better.