Video: How to Spray Paint Sealer on a Car

Spray paint sealer on a car when giving a car a custom paint job by laying a thick coat quickly, since the sealer dries in a short time; learn how from our expert custom-car mechanic in this free auto-restoration video.

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Now Tony's going to hit the whole body of the car with the sealer. He's got a bunch of different ways he applies the paint and I'll try to describe it the best I can. The goal of applying the sealer here and all the top coats, you want to get good even coverage. So every painter has a different rhythm. As long as the paint, or sealer, is coming out of the gun and it's coming out fast and wet, your job will look good. You don't want to get too much on though, especially on the vertical surfaces. So you saw where he went around the edges of the wheel well there after he'd gone down with the sides of the car. If you do the wheel wells first you end up blasting a bunch of sealer around the unsealed surfaces of the car and it will leave dust on there. So Tony hits the sides of the car first, gets a real heavy coat on there. Any sealer that blows up from around the edges of things will land on, wet the surface, and be absorbed. If it lands on a dry surface it just lays there and makes dust. So he's keying the gun, he leaves the air pressure on all the time. A paint gun has a two stage trigger, so he's always got air coming out and he keys the fluid at the beginning and end of every pass, so he doesn't make a puddle.

How to Spray Paint Sealer on a Car

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