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I am only having this mottling problem with what seems to be old 60’s metallic colors. Pearls don’t seem bad. I sprayed my last car at 28 psi for clear and it laid beautiful. I sprayed the same green with my cheaper touch up gun on a practice panel and it seems to lay ALOT darker? I’m actually thinking about a sata RP for base
And I was curious what could’ve caused JUST the fenders to get pops? I waited almost an hour between base and clear
If I burn through to clear can I just spot sealer on the burn throughs then recolor and clear?
Ok….. I think I finally realize what’s going on with my mottling problem. The lph 400 is a low pressure gun and today I resprayed a chevelle and realized that the paint booth fans are so strong it’s (BENDING) my spray fan. I sprayed the hood with the booth fan of and BAM!! No mottling. I’m not able to change the booth flow , SO,,,,, any recommendations on a higher pressure spray gun that you guys prefer? Sata? Devilbiss?
Jayson M? Do you use an inline regulator or know of a good accurate one on the market? I was running an inline water filter also between the gun and inline regulator but I took it off just in case it was messing with my pressures. We have an industrial air dryer anyway
Yeah I think I’ve watch all of his videos and I noticed he uses this gun often but he mostly sprays waterbourne I believe. Not sure if that makes any difference in psi? I would love to get his input on lph pressures though. The textured spray was wet in nature so no color on my tack cloth. And it was Omni I was practicing with. I don’t remember seeing the texture with deltron. I’ll have to keep playing
I set my pressure using an inline regulator at full pull wide open and fluid coming out. I don’t know how accurate the gauge is on the regulator. I want to invest in a really good one. Any suggestions? I sprayed a test panel today at 16-18 psi and it seemed a bit textured. I also bumped it up to 26 psi and it was SO mottled. Even though at low pressure it went on textured it looked really good after clear. Adhesion is my only concern here??? I might try a sata or devilbiss (spelling). In the future. I hear some spray the lph400 gun at 12 psi. Thanks for the input guys. I read the specs but it doesn’t seem right
Here’s the non variant omni compared to the stock color (middle stripe). Maybe omni gold has variants? If they still have it. I use deltron 95% of the time anyway
Not sure if the textured base coat question would be affected, but I spray ppg Deltron DBC (SOLVENT) .
Oh and I’m not sure if it makes a difference, but I am spraying DBC deltron (SOLVENT)
Amateur question,,, what is a half coat mean? Drop coat?
One problem I recently found with Omni is when I sprayed my friends camry last month. The color was so far off it wasn’t even blendable. My paint rep said that there were no variants in that color in the omni line. So I got deltron. I am doing a full respray on my truck so I probably will go with Omni. Thanks for the input.
I’ve never been able to spray a color in two coats. I find myself putting one one heavier coat and the three light coats (fear of mottling). But then again Im more of a hobbiest. I might spray only 1-4 projects a month (mostly small damage repairs). And I always think to myself,,,,, one more coat is better then reprepping and respraying. On a side note, I’m gonna talk to my paint rep about sealer shades (thanks for the advice). I guess I could mix up some left over blues and green deltron to get a close enough base shade and use omni for my cut ins only since I plan on keeping this truck a long time.
Thanks for the replie! The color I’m thinking of is mazda phantom blue PC 32C. almost $800 a gallon (shop coat) the last gallon of lemans blue I bought was only $450ish. Metallica Vs pearls I guess in cost difference? I’ve sprayed deltron over omni before for a used car dealer as a under layment (close color) minimal top color was needed. Looked great but not sure on longevity. I am admittedly newer to paint (NOT BODY) work so that being said I tint my sealer using 5% with the color I’m spraying
