Spraying the Base Coat of Paint on Brake Calipers

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Doug. I work with twenty great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. Now Andy's got the black base coat in the gun. We use a base coat, clear coat system on most of our paint work. So the material he's spraying now is just for color. It's a very thin coat. It covers very nicely but it dries dull. You can do multiple layers and get the custom candy effect that we do with the two stage system where your using a base coat clear coat. If we were to use a single stage, what's coming out of the gun now would stay shiny, and we couldn't keep adding on top of it to get different effects. You might be able to hear as Andy is doing this, that he's keying the gun every time it stops. He's only got paint coming out of the gun whenever he's actually making a pass over the work piece. He often leaves the air keyed, it?s a two step trigger, if you watch his right hand, he'll hold it open enough so that the air flow continues but the paint stops. If you key it all the way each time and shut off the air and the material, you'll end up with little splatters every time it opens up. So you keep the air flowing and it keeps the tip clean; it's a lot less work."