Check Out Ed Hubbs Video ABout Spraying Clear Coat!
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Auto Body Repair – How To Clear Coat Over Airbrushed Flame – HD
CollisionBlast.com – Please rate this video. This Auto Body Repair video is the last part of answering a question of how to prepare and complete a car for artwork. We did not spend much time on airbrushing as Danielle, the girl that asked the question, already know how to airbrush. [Read more…] about Auto Body Repair – How To Clear Coat Over Airbrushed Flame – HD
BCC Students Spraying A Tri-Coat Paint Job
Here is a video of Butler students spraying a tri coat paint job.
Butler students deonstrate how to paint a three stage paint job. This is the base coat, mid coat and the clear coat. The mid-coat on this paint job is a tinted clear. This allows you to be able to see through the tinted clear and see the base caot color. This adds depth to the paint job. If you remember the candy colors, this is the same concept.
After the Mustang was repaired, snaded and prepped for painting, the following steps were taken.
1. Pulled in the paint booth and masked off.
2.Wiped down with wax and grease remover.
3.Tacked off with a tack rag.
4.Primer sealer sprayed on the entire car.
5.Sprayed black where needed for stripes.
6.Masked black off.
7.Sprayed one light coat on the over masked off black areas. This is the remaining black paint that was not masked off. This will help achieve hiding.
8.Spray 2 medium wet coats base coat – this is the color
9.Spray 2 medium wet coats mid-coat – this is the tinted clear
10.Unmasked stripes and areas that are black
11.Spray 1 tack coat of clear coat – this is a thin coat of clear to allow the full wet coat of clear to stick without running. This step is not required, but works well when custom painting. Eliminates clear from running on paint stripe edges.
12. Spray 2 full wet coats of clear coat.
Now ready to unmask and put back together. All of the part were painted separately off of the car. Bumper cover, rocker moldings, etc.
They did a great job on the car. Sorry for the poor video quality….that is my bad! I’ve learned to stay very still if I am going to speed the video up.
Paint code is E9 – The code will give you the base coat and mid-coat formulas
We used PPGs Sealer, Paints and with PPG 2021 Clear Coat
Auto Repair Estimates – Part 15 – Add For Tri-Coat
Adding for tri-coat or three stage paint is similar to adding for clear coat. However, you will need to know when to add for clear coat and when to add for tri-coat. Tri-Coat consists of base coat, mid-coat and clear coat, which is three different operations that you must do to get the paint to match. The mid-coat may be a pearl coat or a tinted clear to create different effects, including shifting colors and adding more depth. It may be very difficult to determine by looking if it is a tri-coat or not. To be certain if you are charging for the correct operation is to locate the paint code on the vehicle and look it up. The paint code is NOT part of the VIN number. It is a code that is located in various places on a vehicle. The p-pages will give you some general ideas of where these paint code labels may be located and will help you identify tri-coat colors.
When adding for tri-coat you do not add for clear coat. The clear coat time is included in the tri-coat application. Use the same formula by deducting for overlap and for adding clear, except add 70% per refinish hour to your first panel and 40% to each additional panel.
Let’s examine the same example that we’ve been discussing with tri-coat.
Body Labor Paint Labor
Repair Hood Panel 2.5 3.0
Deduct for paint overlap .0
Add For Tri-Coat 2.1
Adjusted Paint Time w/ tri-c 5.1
Repair Right Front Fender 2.0 3.0
Deduct for paint overlap -.4
Adjusted Paint Time 2.6
Add For Tri-Coat 1.0
Adjusted Paint Time w/ tri-c 3.6
Repair Left Front Fender 1.0 3.0
Deduct for paint overlap -.4
Adjusted Paint Time 2.6
Add For Tri-Coat 1.0
Adjusted Paint Time w/ tri-c 3.6
Total Labor 5.5 12.3
Auto Repair Estimates – Part 14 – Adding For Clear Coat
When writing auto repair estimates the auto estimator must add for clear coat. The clear coat takes time to spray onto the vehicle and it is expensive. Therefore, there should be a charge for the time that it takes to mix and apply it and a charge for a cost of the material. The time should be added to refinish labor to accomplish both labor time and material charge. We will discuss how to determine the material charge later in another blog.
Today we are going to explain why you must add for clear coat and how to determine how must time to add. You may be thinking that most vehicles have clear coat; why don’t the guide include the time it takes to clear? This is because not all cars have clear coat, and you should not get paid for an operation that you did not perform. I think it is fair for technicians to get paid for everything that they do, but if we start charging for things that we don’t do is fraud and can lead to a lot of trouble. So if you’re going to add for clear or any other not included operations, make sure it needs it.
If you clear one panel, you will need to mix your clear, tack the surface that your spraying spray the clear on the panel and clean your spray gun. To add for clear coat you add 40% of the time given to paint the panel. If you spraying a panel with 3.0 hours, you would multiply 3.0 x 40% = 1.2. So to paint and clear this panel you have 3.0+1.2 = 4.2 Total Paint Time.
For each additional panel you will need to deduct for overlap then add 20% for clear coat. For example, if the adjacent panel gives 3.0 hours we will deduct .4 to give us 2.6. Now multiply 2.6 x 20% = .5. Add 2.6 + clear time of .5 top get a total of 3.1 paint time to paint and clear the adjacent panel. This same formula will apply to each additional panel. Deduct overlap and multiply by 20 %.
Let’s take a look of the example in the previous post.
Body Labor Paint Labor
Repair Hood Panel 2.5 3.0
Deduct for paint overlap .0
Add For Clear Coat 1.2
Adjusted Paint Time w/ clear 4.2
Repair Right Front Fender 2.0 3.0
Deduct for paint overlap -.4
Adjusted Paint Time 2.6
Add For Clear Coat .5
Adjusted Paint Time w/ clear 3.1
Repair Left Front Fender 1.0 3.0
Deduct for paint overlap -.4
Adjusted Paint Time 2.6
Add For Clear Coat .5
Adjusted Paint Time w/ clear 3.1
Total Labor 5.5 10.4