Smart repair paint scheme advice

Smart repair paint scheme advice

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neefern

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1 posts

119 months

Saturday 19th April 2014
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Hi everyone I'm new to this website I've noticed it always appears in my Google search results offering good advice from your members. Here's my question I've been spraying my own cars & repairing family & friends cars for a good few years now & I've always bought max Mayer solvent paint from my local motor factor ready mixed to spray through a HVLP gravity gun so one day I seen a lechler hydrofan waterbased paint scheme going cheap on ebay. Thought great no messing i can knock up small amounts of paint ready to use only thing is I haven't got a clue how mixing water based paint works. I understand how to use the software entering the colour code and that you use the scales to measure the amounts of colours to mix but I'm just basically guessing. I would be amazingly grateful if someone could give me advice on how I should be using the kit.

Cheers Neil

Vette

84 posts

181 months

Sunday 20th April 2014
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You're on the wrong forum for that kind of advice. There is a specialist forum, but you'll have to pay a membership fee - if it's so important to you, it would be a small investment for expert advice I think?

7even

462 posts

192 months

Sunday 20th April 2014
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Vette said:
You're on the wrong forum for that kind of advice. There is a specialist forum, but you'll have to pay a membership fee - if it's so important to you, it would be a small investment for expert advice I think?
A mighty big +1 for that, or you could take a paint course at somewhere like SE, but it would probably work out a couple of grand more expensive.

paintman

7,669 posts

189 months

Sunday 20th April 2014
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If you're happy with what you're using & do this on an occasional basis then I'd suggest you stick with it. Otherwise you will finish up with a lot of small bottles of tinters, many of which you will NEVER use. Without a set of colour swatches for the system you will also be guessing at which of the variant shades you will need to mix.
I have two waterbased mixings systems which I use professionally but still occasionally have a colour made up by a motor factor in solvent base.
A decent factor will be able to do you a 'chip match' for variant shades of a colour & the one I use does 'exact matches' - although they DO need checking before attacking the car with sandpaper etc!