Has anybody used this company? Lookin at there clears, plan on doing a .004 blue flake in a clear on a black base and was looking at there paint systems. What is everybody favorite moderatly priced clear to use? If there is one My car will not be a daily driver, will only see sunny days out of the garage.I am into final blocking and trying to fiqure out a good product. I have used ppg products. http://www.tcpglobal.com/restorationshop/rspclear.aspx
I use Transtar Clearcoat and find it works and polishes well. Plus it's about 1/3 of the cost of PPG. Here's a 48 P/U I put it on. The Old Tinbasher
I was just at the shop yesterday and I was very happy with the help I received. I bought some lacquer paint and some clear. They carry numerous products and they also can make factory colors for just about any car and year. I will continue to buy from them.
Let me know how there clear sprays.When do you plan on painting? I am close. I am looking at buying some flake, base, clear from them. They seam to have lots of all kinds of product.
i used paint with pearls blue with crossfire clear from napa.i do remember using transstar clear before and it turned out good but it did yellow alittle in a couple of years.to me i would use the best clear i could afford.these pics were taken about an hour after i finished clearing it in my tractor supply garage tent.hope this helps,and i also did flat black base.
also plan on useing WAY more flake than they sugest.i put three heaping tablespoons pere quart and did 4 coats{1 gallon of clear}and a teespoon of crushed glass in the last coat to give it that extra POP{.050}and the flake size was .004.
Thanks for answering my Questions American Opel, Its hard to get anybody to answer a newbie Gernade inspectors question and also not haveing a tradional car. Luv the Opel Did you you use a black sealer for a base, or the real base color? Crossfire clear at Napa is that a Urathane? How much did it run? I am getting close to paint,1st block with 80 grit, now I have put some more slicksand on and working on 180 block
I have used the Kustom shop and their clear. I did a small job with it and it came out fine no problems. Its been so long I dont remember much about it. I have shot their Hot Rodz flat and it was very thin I didnt use the reducer they said to. I have some of their epoxy primer and filler primer I want to test. I only bought a quart of each. The shipping is high but if I buy enough I still beat the local prices. I forgot I also shot some of their single stage urethane its not bad for a driver and its cheap. Theres a company here called rubber seal they make good stuff especially clear. They run about half what PPG does and they formulate their stuff to work with PPG HOK etc...
i used black enamel flat with enamel hardener that my friend used on his truck and trailer.it is for automotive use.it was cheep like $50.00 gallon{his price and he does have a bodyshop}i only used a quart though.after i sprayed the black i took some scotch brite to it tack clothed it then sprayed some alcohal on it to destatic it.
i have $75.00 in the paint job,including the gold leaf lettering.well plus another $100 in primer sandpaper and filler which i still have leftovers of everything.so i would really say $50.00.the clear was leftover from a pre.car.{one gallon}and the other was from a friend that wouldnt use besauce it was about a year old.i sprayed it last spring.the clear that i had i sprayed my hornet with about 8 years ago and it still looks great{i sold it 4 years ago but last week the guy emailed me some pics.of it.
so i guess if i had to buy it all it would probably cost $200 in clear 20 for black 40 for lettering 100 for primer 25 for flake and another $400 for beer.and i am going light on the price of BEER!!
You need to start a cheap paint job thread , I dont even want to add in what I have in beer in my project so far Your opel turned out cool, was that an ex strip car? Is there a build thread on it?
the only thing about starting a cheep paint thread is there are some people here that will bitch and tell you about how you didnt figure in labor electric shop rent ect.been there got agravated and dont want to go there again.no i didnt do a build thread.after i had just about finished it{2 1/2 months}then i got on the hamb.the car was started MANY years ago and went through atleast 5 people that i know of and none of them ever did anything to it.and thanks,im glad you like it.some people bash me on here because its a 67{not traditional}my computer crashed awile ago and i lost alot of the build pictures.heres acouple.
Havent been bashed, but I have heard the pro street ( ugh) before I dont have any billet though But I have some 17" wide ansens on the rear, its' hard to squeeze a 10wide cheater slick on it Which blue did you use? Here what I am lookin at. http://www.paintwithpearl.com/flakes/canadianblue/canadianblue.htm
i used the strato blue.i did buy 3 or 4 jars.i do know that i used almost 2 if not 2 and alittle out of the third jar.they say you can do a car with only one but you deff.dont want to skimp on the flake.if you want to use less than one jar i would sugest spraying the car with a like color.
Shopline JC630 and hardener, $111.00. This is a decent product for the money. It's a polyurethane vs acrylic. It looks really wet and polishes out pretty easy. With regular upkeep it ought to last a good long time. You'll notice it appears a bit "thin" compared to other clears and I'll tell you that if you get greedy with each coat it will definately hit the floor. Overall not a bad choice for what you want to do. Their other clear is an acrylic urethane and also not a bad product. It may be better as the mil thickness will be a bit more and you need to bury that flake. Using a black sealer will be ok for a color with flake but if you want black with flake over it the black sealer will look dirty or off color. Perhaps a black sealer, 1, maybe 2 coats of black base just for consistant color then have at it. Shopline is a "production" version of PPG. I wouldn't use it on a 6 figure restoration or a high end hot rod but for a knock around fun car or a good car that's well cared for you'll be pretty happy with it overall. You're asking how it sprays or as we paint fucks say it, how it "handles". Not too different from the PPG frontline stuff. there's also plenty P sheet info on it. Shopline's a big seller for grind-em-out body shops. I can't add any info on the products you're asking about. I tend to shy away from odd name stuff that may not be around in a few years. I did run some Transtar clear many years ago. It handles ok but that last coat really softened up the 2 below it and it would sag easy if you tried to slick it out too much. if you waited longer in hopes of it not sagging it would invariably solvent pop for some odd reason. Again, for grind out shop it was ok for a " 2 coats and ship it" job. I liked the Transtar 2K primer. Good hold out and no sealer needed, sanded real easy. A professional paint supplier that wasn't a brand specific shop might carry it. Up here in Motown, our PPG exclusive store wouldn't sell it but the rest would. I gave it up because it was getting as high priced as the rest of the products. Good luck. I'll be glad to help if ya need it.
Has anybody else had any good luck with shopline clear if so what #? How many gallons of clear you think it would take me to do my model a?
Well found this on another forum, He used all of Kustom Shops products. Guess I am gonna try there products on mine. Will be ordering the stuff in a couple of days
you say in your first post , that you've used PPG products, why not stay with what you;ve used before ? You've spent a lot of time and $$$ on your project , is this where you want to cut a few corners ?
Well painted my cage this weekend, will start on rest of the car now. Kustom shop products 3 coats of blue metallic base, 3 coats inter coat clear, with .004 cobalt blue flake, 4 coats clear, and a pain in the but to shoot
I like to use Matrix clear ms-52 it runs abuot 130 a kit. Advantage also makes a great clear for a great price its about 90 dollars a kit.
Finally got a chance to paint the car, now just have to color sand a stripe, and reclear. Really like there paint. But since I am a novice and havent painted a car in 15yrs I cant remember what to compare it too.
looks great, I'd love to see some more pics when it's all cleared....subscribed! I'm planning a paint job next year, when it warms up, wish I lived in Texas for the winter
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