Clear coat question

[rickster991]

My car is in paint. I’ve read to ask for extra clear coat for future paint correction. Should I do this? How many coats? Thanks!

[Jeff Kleiner]

Ask your painter what he's comfortable with. I always do 3 coats of PPG Deltron DCU 2021. Some manufacturers recommend 3 maximum due to the potential for delamination. In the world of youtube "experts" some are saying to "stack" on 5 coats so that you can cut off 3. If you can lay it down slick you won't have to sand 3 coats off to get it smooth But hey, that's just my opinion.

Jeff

[rich grsc]

Opinion?????? It's fact, not opinion.

[mrmustang]

Ask your painter what he's comfortable with. I always do 3 coats of PPG Deltron DCU 2021. Some manufacturers recommend 3 maximum due to the potential for delamination. In the world of youtube "experts" some are saying to "stack" on 5 coats so that you can cut off 3. If you can lay it down slick you won't have to sand 3 coats off to get it smooth But hey, that's just my opinion.

Jeff

Remember the days of nonsense being published in magazines "20 coats of color followed by 50 hand rubbed coats of clear"

3 coats of quality product is more than enough if the painter knows what he is doing.

Bill S.

[Mike.Bray]

Remember the days of nonsense being published in magazines "20 coats of color followed by 50 hand rubbed coats of clear"

3 coats of quality product is more than enough if the painter knows what he is doing.

Bill S.

That wasn't actually nonsense, that was lacquer where most of it got sanded off. Even I could spray lacquer

[rich grsc]

Well I can spray anything.......what it looks like, well now that's not something we talk about..

[Mike.Bray]

Well I can spray anything.......what it looks like, well now that's not something we talk about..

That's why I liked lacquer, I could always sand it into something nice.

[Jeff Kleiner]

Oh yes, I remember those days back in 1974 shooting Martin Senour acrylic lacquer (rather amazing that I can remember it actually, given the lack of personal protection and resulting depletion of brain cells)



Ahhhhh, I can still smell it

Jeff

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[J R Jones]

Oh yes, I remember those days back in 1974 shooting Martin Senour acrylic lacquer (rather amazing that I can remember it actually, given the lack of personal protection and resulting depletion of brain cells)



Ahhhhh, I can still smell it

Jeff

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I did one of those lacquer jobs at about the same time, the same way, and the same color (without clear). This picture is from last year, and it looks OK from this distance.
My memory of the task is that my second coat stripe pass back to the rear, found a June bug on the trunk, clawing through the white, dragging-up blue. Wet sand and repeat.
jim

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It came to mind that my brother's tribute was the third of three Mustangs that were painted that way at that time. The race cars effectively disappeared, the 70 to a FFR member in northern WI and the 66 is somewhere in CA.
jim
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[Mike.Bray]

The last lacquer paint job I did before sanding. Would have been around 83/84.

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And after sanding & buffing. No PPE for me either which probably explains a lot.

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