Between Coats

[Ricoch3T]

About to try painting for the first time, Do yall use tack rags between coats? I noticed that sometimes I have a little dusty feeling stuff sitting on the car after I spray primer (overspray).

And when doing jams, you spray your base and clear, then backtape?




Thanks for the help!

[JRouche]

Im not a painter, but I did prime my car, in my garage. I didnt dare use a tack cloth. That would not have helped. I stayed within the minimum re-coat times for my primer. I didnt want to touch it between coats.

Are you spraying in a paint booth or somewhere else. A spray booth will help with the dust of over spray. Again, I was in my garage but I made a home grown spray booth with a couple of large fans to pull a vacuum in the plastic enclosure I set up. The filters I used were completely coated after the spraying. But I didnt have a cloud of primer in the air to settle back down on the car. It helped alot.

And I was shooting HVLP. If you are shooting HPLV then you may be bouncing the paint off the car to just have it land back on the car. Even with a HVLP gun you need to set it up so the paint is coating and not fogging. If its fogging on then you will get a "dusty" coating. Dry painting.

Again, Ill leave the recommendations to the painters. But for me when I opened up the needle and kept a high pressure (for my paint) it worked out better. I was painting and not fogging. And I had to move fast. Damm wrists and forearms were killing after that job. Painters must have forearms made of steel. JR

[67 ls1 vert]

JR... it is much easier to hold the gun straight and walk down the side of the car. You dont want to flick your wrist at the end of the stroke. Keeping the gun pointed at the car at all times.

Ricoch3T, dont use a tack cloth after each coat of base. Just spray the base on and wait for the recommended time for your material and re-coat as necessary for coverage. Remember, you dont need a lot of base. You are applying just enough to color the car. After you finish your base coat, if you find any dust nibs or flaws you can lightly wet sand with 800 to smooth out any imperfections. Then you can wipe it with your tack cloth.

As for the jambs... base them and the rest of the car with the fenders off the car so you can get behind the door easier. Then clear the whole car.

[67 455 Bird ragtop]

As for the jambs... base them and the rest of the car with the fenders off the car so you can get behind the door easier. Then clear the whole car.

So you clear the jambs with the rest of the car??? Isn't it tough clearing the front door side jambs with the doors on?

[67 ls1 vert]

you could take off the doors and spray them but then when you go to put them back on it's very difficult to get them aligned right with out scratching the hinge post where the hinges go.

I would just leave them on and open the door and spray around the edges of the door then use the inside of the door to close it almost all the way so you can spray the hinge part.

[Ricoch3T]

Thanks everyone, I was wondering if a better ventilation system would take care of this.. right now i've been just spraying without much air movement while I finish up my booth. I should have enough flow once I get the booth finished up.

[JRouche]

JR... it is much easier to hold the gun straight and walk down the side of the car. You dont want to flick your wrist at the end of the stroke. Keeping the gun pointed at the car at all times.

Yeah, I did walk the gun down on the sides. The sides were easy, or fun anway. It was the roof that killed my arm. I was up on a step stool and keeping the gun tip straight up and down, not at an angle was wrecking my wrist and burning the forearms. With a full cup of paint. By the time I was done with the roof I was happy to shoot the sides. Id hate to do a wagon. I was just trying to give props to the painters that do this every day. They must have arms of steel JR