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Been spraying clear coat wrong for a decade, found out from a dented fender.
Had a 2015 F-150 fender come back with a weird haze after I fixed a dent, and the customer pointed it out. Turns out I was holding the spray gun too far away, about 18 inches, thinking it gave a smoother finish. How do you guys judge your spray distance on metallics?
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lucast816mo ago
So you've been basically airbrushing your clear coat from the next county over this whole time? That's a tough way to find out, but at least the fender told you what your buddies were too nice to say. For metallics, I just keep it close enough that the pattern looks wet but doesn't run, maybe a hand's width. How did you not get crazy orange peel from being that far back?
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quinn1613mo ago
Bet the farther back spray actually helped hide any dust nibs in the clear.
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beth1476mo ago
Remember my buddy who sprayed his whole truck bed from like four feet away? Turned out looking like sandpaper, but he called it a "textured finish" and rolled with it.
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