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Hello all, I am new here and need some help if anyone cares to, I painted some bike pieces last week with Omni bc/cc, an anyone tell me it I can add some additional coats of clear now or has the gassing process gone too long? TIA...
Kevo

You should be past the window where lifting occurs,
just wet sand with 1000-1500 grit and reclear.
Just dont get to many coats of clear as the thicker it is , the easier it chips. and longevity is lessened.
SprayTech

Hey spray, I have a few simple paint questions also, What's the performance difference between the spray guns that have the resivore above the handle and the ones that have the resivore right behind the handle? I know HVLP means high velosity low preassure but, what does that really mean in terms of the diffrence of the quality of paintjob opposed to a standard gun? If I go from a 1967 dark aqua color to a newer metallic dark aquamarine, will I have to paint under the hood and in the jambs or, will it be ok if I left them? I'm just wondering cause I have never painted a car b4 and, I have to pick out a new spray gun cause my dad's old one has a bad mixer and dosent mix right.

Thanks, SprayTech, This reply helps heaps...the additional coats arent to get too many, just to aleviate the new gun technique that i used, too much paint, too little air and since this is my first xperience with bc/cc, I was unsure of what I had to do to correct my errors. Many, Many thanks......wish me luck....
Kevo

HVLP : Stands for High Volume Low Pressure.
THey call the guns with the cups on top, top loaders
or gravity feed.
They make a couple of HVLP guns with the cups below like the old siphen feeds and work just as good. ( I used a matson for years till it wore out)
I know use a accuspray & an IWATA LVLP.

The old siphon feed guns required 45-65 PSI at the air cap ,there fore producing more paint in the air then on the car, this is called Volital Organic Compound , or VOC's.
The HVLP guns today require huge amounts of air supplied to the gun, but the air gets broke down inside the head to 7-12 PSI and it cuts way down on the VOC's in the air , so you have better paint transfer to the car being sprayed, which you use less materil today then of yesteryear.
I have used every gun type out there and can make them all work, they all have their quirks, just have to find one that you like , and it does go , the higher $ the gun , usually gives the best results., but that comes form someone that does it for a living, they do make some good cheaper guns
that do a good job for beginners & the home enthusiast, so it doesnt requir you to buy high dollar unless you use it everyday.
Hope that helped :-)
SprayTech
P.S.kevo , glad to help

Thank's spray, I think I'll get somtin that's going to be fairly cheap but, somtin that works good to, Eastwood's got some good stuff. I'll probably use it throuought the summer when I need to paint various metal surfaces with auto paint, which can be anywhere from a dirt bike tank to the truck I'm getting . That peice of info helped a lot.