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12-18-2007 #1
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Blackest ,Black?
i have read more things than i can remember , and i still cannot honestly say that i have found the best black to use .
I have been told so many different stories about which way to go and or lay it down , from paint types to ways of spraying .
I post this because several years back i had a car sprayed and ahead of time i asked the painter to spray it 2001 corvette black , ( i saw it and at the time thought it was the blackest i had seen) but anyway he said oh black is black , and guess what he used the black that he chose , not what i asked for .
TO this day i have never been happy with the car or the color , just doesnt look black enough .
I have also been told dont to a base clear because that takes away from the black and will sometimes make it look grey.
I am now in the process of getting prepared to paint my two cars , and i am going to go with the same exact paint on each , and i only want to do it once , and be happy , who can help?
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12-18-2007 #2Dupont Jet Black 99 - original color of my car (once restored in 1990 - first picture is 17 year old paint). Painting it same Dupont - very black to me (second shot is the main car - not buffed, then a first stage buffed firewall). I've now first stage polished the whole main car and a painter who's now 74 and has been painting cars for 50 years said "It's sure black". Base/Clear was done on the outside in 1990 with single stage jambs/under hood/trunk. I'm doing the whole car in base/clear. Black isn't the same as the next black (or at least there can be subtle differences) .. can have stronger green, red, blue characteristics.


12-18-2007 #3
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Here is a question. I will use dupont as the example. All Paints are made with toners, in chroma base there are h.s. toners (high strength) why cant you just use a high strength black throw some binder in it and spray that? Couldnt get any blacker than that could you?
12-18-2007 #4
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duponts 9900s is straight out of the can with binder and balancer already in it and it is BLACK
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