thinking about shooting solvent base on my car
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times are hard. im going to be spraying the 1/4, rr door, and rf door. its a silver. ive never shot solvent base before. what do you guys think? how it perform compared to water base for mottle and blending silvers? should i go omni or nason? or any other sugestions?
id stay away from omni or nason….. ppg or dupont an ya should be fine 😉
are you talking about there water born paint?
no there solvent
there available in s. cali? wat brand ppg you talking?
i here that BASF paints are pretty user friendly. I use Standox/Spies and they can get a little tough with silvers. Good Luck Its starting to warm so go with the right reducers for whatever the temperature is.
Omni and Nason are value brands and your trading some serious quality for price. PPG Global is a good solvent system. Dupont’s Chromabase system is good too. Silver is the hardest color to blend and easiest to get mottling. Make sure to do a wet bed before base coat and an orientation coat after your base and you should be fine.
Hi Sagicun, having worked Solvent and Waterborne in the past, they both have good and bad points.If your guns are old its likely that they’re set up to give a better finish to solvents, the newer sprayguns tend to have a W in the name somewhere as they are engineered to atomise waterbase better. It is easier to get a more uniform finish to silvers with WB as the metallic pieces “lay down” better and you dont get the patchy look when you spray some passes a little heavy/ dry/light Also solvent has a habit of going on darker with inexperienced hands as they cant judge wetness as well, WB is better at this and staying the colour it is on the tin. You can work on dry solvent if you have dirt etc in it but not on WB till after top coat has gone on and you have to rework the lot!.However WB is strange to put on as it seldom lookes the right colour till it dries, you need to put a light coat on first then a wet coat. then you need to move some clean warm air across the panels to dry them as the water in the mix evaporates. You must make sure that it is all dry before putting on the lacquer top coat.Solvent is more forgiving in this respect but can bite back , putting on too thick a coat too soon can “model” the silver and the particles drop out of the paint, not a problem with WB. Hope this helps ! Rob
if you have access to DeBeer paint you’ll like it more than Deltron, Chromabase or ultra 7000. looks like we’re all gonna have to switch to water sooner or later. :kofee
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