Bens Sherwin Williams jobs
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I see some of you guys have posted pics of your work recently, so here is some of my recent stuff. I am spraying Sherwin Williams AWX Performance Plus…joke all you want, but it is working very well for me 😛
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[img]https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/479852_10151483995015033_50985670_n.jpg[/img]Looks good ben. How does it dry in that old semi downdraft. you using any blowers for it
Those jobs look very nice,great work :cheers I enjoy seeing what everyone else is doing,glad the SW is working out for you.
looks very good ben. i see your booth pulls the plastic sheeting away, do u end up with overspray?
Thanks!
The booth is a heated pressurized Spray-Tech, cross flow (reverse flow). It is actually only about a year old. The water dries fairly quick. There is a flash function I use between coats and before clear. I don’t use blowers, don’t seem to need them. Only quirks are having the exhaust at the door end, and the airflow isn’t as good down the centre of the booth due to the intake and exhaust being in the corners rather than having the exhaust over an entire wall. It is a fairly nice booth and works well.
[quote=”MoCoke” post=30342]looks very good ben. i see your booth pulls the plastic sheeting away, do u end up with overspray?[/quote]
The booth doesn’t pull the plastic away while spraying, that is from the heat after the bake cycle.
Looking good Benny! :clappy
Nice!
Although obviously that inferior brand of paint will shrivel up and fall off in a week :rock
hey ben how do u commpair it to sikkens autowave and clears and all?
[quote=”toyotapainter” post=30429]hey ben how do u commpair it to sikkens autowave and clears and all?[/quote]
Well, they are both good systems in my opinion.
-P27 primer is easy to use, but with it being preflexed, sanding odd areas (like in jambs) isn’t great (kinda rubbery until you knock the top off). When converted to a sealer it works ok too. Sprays decent, you cannot put it on heavy, it is very difficult to denib (quick to flash, slow to cure enough to sand…also kind rubbery). Doesn’t lay quite as flat as colour build plus250…but they did give an optional mixing ratio with a lot more solvent to help with that. In my opinion, it is probably the least desirable product in our system…although it really isn’t all that bad, either.
-AWX Performance Plus, is an updated version of AWX, and is better for it. It is easy to mix, easy to spray…metallic control and blending is great with most colours. Very fast to flash off, and very easy to denib if needed. Colour match is very good, but Autowave is better. Oddly enough, the problem colours I had in Autowave are excellent with the AWX. The metallic colours do cover better with Autowave. In my opinion Autowave is the better base, but the AWX Performance Plus gives it a very good run for the money.
-As for clears, the Superior 250 is obviously a great product that is hard to screw up. However, I believe the SW clears are better for the environment I am in. I use the 755 clear (slow high end clear, great for large jobs and completes). It is easy to use, sprays like older clears, can lay very flat and has very good gloss & depth. The HPC 21 is great for bumpers and small jobs. Air dry in about 20 minutes…excellent gloss and depth as well. With it, however, you must use the right solvent, allow no new than 1 minute flash and you must hammer that shit in. If you do everything right, it won’t die back and looks great. It is somewhat finicky, though. Lastly I also have the 757 clear. It is a high solids production clear. It can be a little finicky too, but for the most part is easy to use. When spraying, there is an obvious difference on solid content from the other 2 clears, so you need to adjust accordingly.
The reason I said the SW clears are better for our environment is simply because all 3 of them are much softer the 250, and therefore much easier to polish. With our booth, we can get jobs out fairly clean, but all horizontal parts do need some denibbing. Much quicker and easier with the SW clears than with 250. I have seen some jobs about 6 months later and they seem to hold up well. With Superior I at least have seen jobs that are 2+ years old and holding up extremely well. Hopefully the SW is the same after more time.
thanks alot ben
Thanks for the honest comparison Ben,I am always interested in reviews of other systems good or bad. :cheers
[quote=”Jayson M” post=30434]Thanks for the honest comparison Ben,I am always interested in reviews of other systems good or bad. :cheers[/quote]
No problem. I like hearing others opinions, and why. Not just hearing someone say something is the best, or that it sucks. A lot of that stuff often pans out to be not true, and may be based more in a guys experience ( or lack of)
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