12/17/2022 0 Comments When did ford start using a clear coat![]() Then, I melt my line with another coat of reducer. I start at the front door and end at the back of the panels. Let it dry for five minutes, then put on your second coat of clear up to the next orange line. Before you put your next clearcoat on, you put on a coat of slow reducer mixed with 5 percent top clear. This is when you put on your first coat of slow reducer and let it dry off. Your first pass of clear goes up to the first orange tape line and covers the silver basecoat. I used some orange tape so you could more easily see when and where I applied a coat of very thin slow reducer with 5 percent catalyzed clearcoat added to it. I first prepped the area to blend beyond my silver basecoat by buffing it, then wax and degreasing it. The photos in this article show a job I just did where I used this technique. ![]() The trick is to soften up the factory clear enough to actually melt the two together. You need to blend into the sail panel, otherwise you have to clear the entire roof and the opposite quarter panel. Painting a quarter panel on some cars that don’t have a break line is the classic reason why you need to know how to do this. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
December 2022
Categories |