LEARN: HOW TO SPOT PAINT

oh welcome back to another episode of pain Society in this episode we're gonna break the rules just a little bit [Music] [Music] and thanks once again for joining me on this episode my name is Brian and if you work in a body shop from time to time you're gonna need to know how to do specific Blends and just different types of jobs that you might not be 100 comfortable with and I'm going to show you exactly what we got going on today and on this episode we're going to be doing some paint and keeping it right above this body line and doing an open blend now the reason why is this vehicle is over 10 years old and while the customer blew off some paint at the front of the fender and he's asking us just to go ahead and help us out and see if we can keep it above the body line now usually I would not be a fan and or even agreeing for this particular repair but since this is an older vehicle and these particular cars do have peeling issues I'm not too comfortable with taking off the Pinstripe and well this Fender trim right here and seeing what it peels off so today what we're going to do is I'm going to show you how to keep it above the body line here and do a little bit of open blend so let's talk first about how we got to this point now like I said when this vehicle came in at the front of the fender it was missing a good inch and a half worth of paint it was no problem at this point all we did is we used our 320 on a block now we're using no sort of air tools at this point so we went ahead and got it all feathered out nice and smooth at this point since it is a metal Fender we hit it up with some of our etching primer we allowed that to flash and then we used a white primer so that when we go to paint the vehicle it's all going to be easy to cover very easily once it was dry we used our guide coat we used a powder guide coat and rubbed it in and we're going to be using a k600 hand pad once again we're using all products by hand to minimize any sort of scratching to the paint we sand it down that primer area nice and thorough removed all of our guide coat at this point we wanted to protect our pinstripe so we taped off our pinstripe and we used that k600 above the whole top side of that pinstripe and that's exactly how we got to this point so again if we look on the vehicle we can see that that pinstripe is a little bit older right you can see it all consistently matches the vehicle and to take this pinstripe off it could potentially pull the paint right off and then we have to do a blend and then we're in the same situation that we started off right here so sometimes in a body shop you're gonna need to know how to do these jobs basically what we're going to be doing today is using a fine line tape using a fast clear and doing a little bit of an open blend right here let's start off by taping it up now before I tape anything I'm going to use a wax and grease remover so that all of my tape is gonna stick now any of the products that I do use I will put in the description some of the products might not be exactly what I use but they'll be just the same type of product that you can purchase on Amazon to help you get your project done so I'll go ahead and I'll clean all the areas just where the tape is going to lie that way and I'll have to worry about any sort of tape peeling once it comes time to paint so we don't get any overspray I'm going to be using a six inch piece of paper now since this is a rough Edge I'll just tape about a quarter of an inch into the fender and generally the overspray will lie exactly the same way it is already it'll leave that same Edge there's no reason to use any foam tape here to be honest sometimes all it does is cause problems it gets nice and crusty we don't want that so just leave that edge open it's already rough as it is so just keep that same consistency going on the top edge here I'm going to be very very careful I don't want to tape too much of this vehicle because I'm really concerned with its peeling knowing that these do have you know warranty issues with the paint I'm just going to tape the edge and I'm using here half inch tape so we're really reducing the risk factors here we'll use a little bit in here okay and we don't again we don't want any overspray in this area also as a preventative it helps to keep dust down by using that six inch paper inside of the jam area so we've got two pieces of six inch masking well they're butted up next to each other it's going to eliminate dust from kind of getting through here we can see here we have just over a quarter of an inch of tape on this Edge so we've minimized the amount of tape that we're going to use and then we'll use our plastic right up to here now on our headlight that will be masked up on these older vehicles you're going to find much larger gaps between the headlights and the actual body of a vehicle so you're able to really sand that edge in there so you make sure your paint is going to stick once again we're breaking rules here and sometimes you're just going to have to do that in this particular case I do believe but breaking some rules is going to be the better option based upon what we have against us as far as this this paint potentially uh peeling it's kind of like a video I saw on the internet where they tape off the vehicle and they go ahead and they touch up a little spot where the paint is slayed and then they pull the tape off and then the only thing that remains is the touched up pain in the rest of the paint is actually come off with the tape so that's kind of like the same thing we got going on here and so what I'm going to do here is I'm going to tape on the below pinstripe the lower pinstripe that way at the very end um I have some plastic that I can mask to the Fine Line is going to go right above this line and again I want to keep this area open and well before I do any sort of masking with some plastic this little area is going to be really our only area that could be difficult so I'm using a piece of toe cut this is 2000 I'm just doing this by hand and uh basically this is going to be our buffing area right so this will be the first area that can fail because it's what we call an open blend and what an open blend is is well basically blending the original clear coat with your new clear coat which will be right in this area and oh yeah we got to keep the base and pearl away from here so we're going to have to use some some smaller paint guns to help us with that job today now the one thing that I am going to do after I scuff that up and I went about I would say three quarter of a three quarters of an inch lower than the Pinstripe is I'm gonna I'm gonna cut it at the edge here because this is my blend area and basically you know what I don't want is any sort of uh line from the tape itself okay so something like that and that'll be fine then from this point I'm just going to take a little bit of 3000 and clean up the area 3 000 really isn't for the paint to stick to it's just to clean it and if any paint falls on it it's falling on Sand a clear coat opposed to on Sand itself generally my area that scuffed is from here to here kind of like a golf ball and after it's been uh matched up with the tape you kind of see what we're doing here we have minimal tape on the panel we use some trim tape over here for that molding and now we're going to cover it with plastic now once it's covered the only thing left to do is to trace the dotted line so to speak I like to pull my plastic a little bit right so that it's tighter here so I'll gently Trace that tape and then I'll pull the back side on the bottom up gently go on that yellow line you don't want to really dig that razor been there before to leave a line in the paint come over here go all the way across now we can use our two inch tape if we want it doesn't really matter because we're basically only catching the edge of that masking tape and overlapping the rest of the plastic now on the bottom side here we're going to tape to our Edge where it starts to taper off we'll tape there and I'll show you what we're going to do so that when we go to paint it's nice and even you're always setting yourself up for the future here so we'll do that last so basically what I'm going to do here is take this plastic and Fold It Down okay I never want to paint up to a line I don't know why people do that you never paint up to a line you're never going to get that out it's the same thing like primering up to a tape line never do that either so basically my paint is never going to come out this far come down this far it's not going to happen so I'm just taking this and the securing it the worst that could happen here is some overspray right and this is dull which is fine because this is going to get buffed in the end so basically what I want to do is I want to clean that before I completely cover it up so I'll clean the whole panel and I'm using a water-based cleaner first and what you can use is Sprayway glass cleaner it's the same stuff basically this is for automotive and you're not going to be able to find any of this stuff on Amazon I can't even find it online to give you a link but just use the uh use the Sprayway stuff it works great all right I'm going to come over this Edge a little bit and that's done right there okay that's clean then we'll go over it with our solvent base cleaner our prep solvent remove any oils grease things like that [Applause] okay coming to this area we're good to go and we're going to do our line first now you can use quarter inch half inch I'm using half inch here on the bigger spot only because basically I can see my line straighter and like with the smaller stuff what happens sometimes is since it's thinner it's going to want to like lose how straight it can be especially when you're like pulling on it so I think the bigger stuff is a little bit easier to get a straight line now you will have a little bit of an edge here um not a big one because I'm going to show you if you stay tuned to when we go to paint I'm going to show you why you won't have a bigger Edge and what I'm going to do to prevent that so basically here we're good we'll just tighten it up like that okay and on this smaller area we'll just use eighth inch vinyl tape same stuff but smaller this is actually a purple version but it works just the same find the end point okay and voila so now we're going to create a flap for this area now you're going to use the sticky part with the tape on the bottom and you want the top of the paper to kind of land maybe just a touch below that pinstripe or where you're trying to you know do the cut off and then you'll take your tape and you don't want this to sit flat like that that's a big No-No so basically what you want it's to kind of like give it a rainbow effect I want to kind of keep it open a little bit and you got to kind of be gotta play around with it to get it perfect because you just want it to kind of pop out right at the right spot so we'll just tape it here take that down and then what you can do at the top here is just kind of pop it out a little bit once you got that one side good uh that's a little bit that's a little bit too much so I'll change it up maybe right around there that should be fine okay okay so basically what we've done is we created like a little bit of a flap or a pouch for our over spray just to go in there and then we'll pull all this off spray a little bit of melt reducer in there and then I will buff super easy so that's kind of like the hardest part now when you're doing something like this you got to make sure you've got a good color match Granite as good as our color match is going to be we're not blending this is old paint and there will be a touch difference between here and there the rest of this will match it's just a small area it wouldn't matter if this scratch or something was over here I don't know if I would do it because then you might have a two-tone look or a three-tone you'd have one color another color and then the original color at least this is over the headlight so let's go ahead and get the paint loaded up and we'll show you our little technique for blending so we're ready for our blending we're going to be using our base coat first we have a SATA mini jet 3000 uh it's a pretty good gun this is the only SATA actually in my collection I've had it for a while but when I need it it gets the job done so when I'm going to spray I'm going to spray this direction I'm never going to be spraying this way because I want to keep the paint out of that edge okay so basically I'm going to turn down my pressure I'll probably have it around 18 PSI and I'm gonna come this way with it and basically just fill in the dots now let it flash you can already see it's covering very well over that white primer it's all flash it's ready for its second coat this is about five minutes later and we'll do the same thing and that's it so right now we're ready for our Pearl will allow us to dry for about a good eight minutes ready for our Pearl it's been eight minutes and my Pearl I'm gonna allow about a good minute in between time I'm only gonna put two coats on and I'm gonna kind of follow the same technique I want to go about maybe two or three inches past the original so allow that to flash and a minute later same thing that's it leave it alone I don't want a lot of paint going in this area here so basically it's ready for clear now I'm going to talk to you about the clear I chose so you might notice I'm using the same paint gun throughout the process what I'm using here also is an Express clear and what that's going to do is it's not going to build up the edge here so when we go to pull the tape we're not worried about any bridging we're not worried about it drying and keep flowing down that pinstripe once I pull the tape also the one thing I love about it is it is a one and a half coat step process meaning we're going to put a half coat on very dry nothing beautiful and then it says wait about a minute put your second coat on and basically we're not going to be building up the edge we're not too concerned about excessive um clear coat piling up we want thin wet coats so that's exactly what we're going to do and then once our second coat is done or half coat or the last coat then we'll pull off this little flap here we'll spray a little bit of reducer come back in the morning we'll buff it up and it should be golden okay so here we go with the first coat nothing too wet foreign just like that you saw how we sprayed it as if it was never there spray it like it's not there just go right over it we'll wait a minute and after a minute we're ready to put it on a little bit wetter a little bit slower and get some gloss out of the product foreign pull the tape off right away that's exactly what we're going to do we don't have any bridging at this point we'll pull it off and we don't need to take this tape off because it is not where we have painted there's not going to be any wet paint here we'll go ahead and remove this you can see that everything's just on top and basically what we're left with is a little open area that little open area we're just going to spray some reducer on basically it's a Fade Out spray and it doesn't matter if we spray it on the paint it's not clear coat and we're just gonna do this and that's it and we're gonna walk away and we're going to let it dry and then we're gonna buff it and I think we we made out pretty good here I think the biggest Factor here is that the color matches well and uh it's pretty undetectable at this point I mean white is probably the best color to do this on not necessarily a white pearl but if I even you know pull this off for fun you guys get the idea that uh this thing this thing looks good this clear will be dry and uh 30 minutes but uh we'll continue to let it uh dry and the next morning this is exactly what it looks like it's ready to be polished so all we're going to be doing is I'll be using a little bit of my 3000 grit this is an older piece of 3000 and I got a little bit of detailer spray here and right in this area it's a little bit fuzzy it's not too bad that's exactly what it should look like honestly and it's really hard to see on White on camera obviously but all we want to do is just smooth it out if you're sanding your Blends aggressively like with 1000 or 1500 it means you're doing it wrong you should not be doing that I mean it's already a blend so it's already gonna eventually fail they all eventually do fail and if you sand that clear back it's going to fail much quicker so all we're doing here is not necessarily taking clear off but we're smoothing out the transition with three thousand three thousand is not going to remove really any clear to be honest with you it's just smoothing it out so in this area it's all like OEM nice and smooth okay and that's all it takes so we'll leave it just like that give it a little bit of a wipe okay and at this point we're ready to hit it up just with a light polish I'm not even going to use really um any compound I don't want to rough it up too much so what I'm using is a swirl remover and this is like a Polish and then we have a white pad with a little Milwaukee rotary buffer and we'll just give it a little bit of this and that and that's all it's really going to take to be honest with you you don't want to overdo this step a lot of guys will be there all day overdoing it you know really buffing it it should not take that much that's all it should take something just like this to remove those original 3000 grit sand scratches and then ones we just put in and in real time I'll give it a wipe never get still if you follow the light you can see it's all nice and shiny and I'll say that that turned out good now also here I was expecting a line there's no line it's because that coat here was so thin with the one and a half coats and never really got a chance to build up so very happy with that let's go ahead and take a look at it and I'll give you my final thoughts well I was really glad I was able to show you a different type of job and in all honesty this is a job that you could probably do at home you can even do it with spray cans I think it's small enough that if you have some damage on your vehicle I think you'd be able to pull it off it's also good to see that you know there's not always one way to do a job sometimes you have to look at a job in a body shop and say you know what what's the best and most effective way to do this job based on the actual vehicle itself the year the owner what the owner wanted well that's exactly what they got a beautiful looking finish and we didn't have to tamper with any of the other paint so guys this is Brian from paint Society reminding you don't overthink it it's just paint I'll see you guys on the next episode [Music] [Applause] foreign [Music]

Channel: Paint Society

Views: 107,112

Keywords: paintjob, diy, how to, bad paint, gloss, refinish, accident, learn, autobody, collision, booth, repair, copart, harbor, freight, sata, iwata, toyotA, classic, bel air, restoration, rust, old, new

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Length: 23min 51sec (1431 seconds)

Published: Wed Dec 07 2022