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ahh true true, hahaha forgot to bear that in mind, yea my climate down in NZ is a hotter than that so i guess thatd probably be the difference, and i spray with the booth quite hot so itd probably be flashing off before it has the chance to pull up, sometimes dp40 pulls up if im wet on wetting over basecoat and are too lazy to dust some 1K primer on to seal it off but i just give it 10 mins flash in the booth then knock it back gently with some 600-800 W&D and carry on....been using scansealer to wet on wet lately though since the shop im at now are too cheap to get prima

I'm so dang slow, all my body work and primer becomes very well seasoned before any paint is applied..... not sure if this would be the good news or the bad news!!!!!!!

hahahaha

work at a shop were they paid the painter to prime and block the body guys work to get it ready for paint i watch him prep alot of my work one coat of dp light sand with 400 then seal off the panel with one more shot of dp and paint no primer he really piss me off he flag every job for prime and block made about 20+ hours week just on me for doing nothing

Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

work at a shop were they paid the painter to prime and block the body guys work to get it ready for paint i watch him prep alot of my work one coat of dp light sand with 400 then seal off the panel with one more shot of dp and paint no primer he realy piss me off he flag every job for prime and block made about 20+ hours week just on me for doing nothing

Yup, been there done that myself Pat.....Had a guy who worked for me a number of years back when I had the big shop tried the same thing---he got away with it once and was shown the door the second time.....I seem to have a very low tolerance for con men.....

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Yup, been there done that myself Pat.....Had a guy who worked for me a number of years back when I had the big shop tried the same thing---he got away with it once and was shown the door the second time.....I seem to have a very low tolerance for con men.....

this was not my shop but my work so that money would of been better in my pocket i went over every thing out to 320 on a da i told the boss he did not care . i had it happen at other shops to had a body man and a painter stand in front of a 1/4 panel i was working on told me to slow down the painter could not keep up and i was making the other body man look bad before that event every day the painter would say are you done yet so i turn up the wick on his ass and the other 2body man were not happy with me

ooops hit the wrong button prematurely

Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

work at a shop were they paid the painter to prime and block the body guys work to get it ready for paint i watch him prep alot of my work one coat of dp light sand with 400 then seal off the panel with one more shot of dp and paint no primer he really piss me off he flag every job for prime and block made about 20+ hours week just on me for doing nothing

haha geez...thats a bit rough your workers going to that extreme. yea i dont do that on every job and not really big jobs or obvious panels that stick out at you but if its a small repair in a not really noticeable place and i can get away with WOW its real efficient. you gotta pick and choose the right jobs to do it on though aye guys. its interesting , no matter where you are you get the same...'problem' employees

when dp first came out we thinned it with lacquer thinner shot it down first before we top coated with lacquer primer then seal out with dp that what the boss wanted at the one shop .when i needed speed i never did it that way i feathered out my work way out old paint and run the filler up to the to the old paint work the filler out like hi build primer i block out the filller with a guide coat with 180 then da with 320 one very light coat of lacquer primer sand it with a da with 320 and very good pad use the primer as guild coated till most of it was off never used the primer to fill any sanding marks more the 320 one more shot of primer on the filler up to paint wet sand out with 400 wet and seal with dp this is how i did it when i needed to paint it the same day if i had over night i would use a two part primer on it

Thanks guys, I appreciate the input. Now, let the fun begin.