Thank you! I did 4 coats of PPG Omni Ga4 winchester gray, and 3 Fat coats as you say, of SPI universal clear. That stuff sprays so nice! Easy 1:1 mix ratio and very forgiving! I used a harbor freight black widow spray gun.
NOTHING wrong with the Black Widow. I've been painting cars as a serious hobby for about 45 years. I've gotten pretty good at it. I have a few pretty nice guns, but I recently used the Black widow, and I would honestly say it is at least 90% as good as my Iwata Supernova. I have been helping my good friend Mark restore a rough 56 Studebaker Power Hawk for about 6 years. We finally got around to painting it last fall. I do the spraying, but it is awesome to have an assistant to mix paint and help keep the hose from twisting up. Anyway, he had heard a lot of good stuff about the Black widow, and he wanted us to try one. It was awesome. I used it for the entire car, and I was extremely impressed. It sprayed sealer, base and clear perfectly. I would highly recommend them. Here are a few pictures of the painting I did with one. Keep in mind that these parts have not been wet sanded and polished yet. If you are getting too much orange peel with your gun, most clear coats will allow up to 10% of reducer to be added. That will help. Also play around with the pressure and volume controls. I wet sand with 1000 until most of the orange peel is gone, then 1500 until all the orange peel is gone, then 2000, 2500 and 3000.
The pics with the clothes pins keeps getting removed. Ill try it again
It's been warm. Mid 70s during the day. Im flying to Alaska right now for a few days. If it's still like that when I get back, im gonna hit it with the heat gun and see what that does.
Well, they never came out. I ripped it all off and got a new one. Figured out something putting on the new one. Applied the 3m weatherstrip adhesive on a portion. Applied the seal then pulled it back off a little bit for about 5 to 10 seconds, then applied it back. Sticks right away and no need for clamps at all. Doesn't take much adhesive. Just worked all the way around in sections.If the rumble strips don't straighten up out of the seal when you try the heat gun, you may have to get another seal. Seems like the last one I installed, I remember using paint stir sticks on top between the clamps and the seal, just to kind of spread the load like a washer does for a bolt head. First one I ever did, I ruined the seal and got to start over because I just ran a bead of weatherstrip glue and stuck it down. I didn't know at the time that you're supposed to apply the contact cement to both parts, allow the glue to get tacky and then put the seal on. However, I did get lucky and my wife didn't catch me not reading the instructions clearly printed on the tube of contact cement!
