How To Eliminate Orange Peel in Your Paint

Tags: Clearcoat · Paint Defects

http://www.howtopaintcars.com/wp-content/gallery/paint-defects/orange-fruit.jpg?i=1293978949Every painter is going to have the problem of Orange Peel in their paint and there are many factors that can contribute to this condition.

Although most of the time Orange Peel can be cured after the fact is you risk damaging the paint, removing millage of clear that should be protecting the car for years or even having color changes due to clear thickness.

The best solution is to reduce the amount of orange peel in your paint while painting and save your time to go get some pizza.

Some paints have a metallic formulated to have …

How To – Paintless Dent Repair on Plastic Bumper Covers

Tags: Paintless Dent Removal

http://www.howtopaintcars.com/wp-content/gallery/example-repairs/rear-bumper-dent-01.jpg?i=1623402129Paintless Dent Removal is one of the fastest growing areas of auto body repair. The main benefit is not that paint is not involved but that you can get the car back to the customer often within a half a day. Now that is dependent on your shop and schedule but for the most part you will spend fewer hours repairing the dent and there are very few materials required.

Some shops have a dedicated technician that only handles paintless dent work. Other shops will contract this work out and schedule an independent contractor to perform …

Dupont Performance Coatings Gets Bought – What will it mean for Painters?

Tags: Auto Paint Industry News

http://www.howtopaintcars.com//HLIC/fcb94e08b43086b8c4fb38a3ed8d788b.pngIt looks like The Carlyle Group L.P. has completed its acquisition of DuPont Performance Coatings for $4.9 billion dollars. They announced that the company is being renamed Axalta Coating Systems.

It also seems that although they will keep some of the brand names the manufacture of the paint will be moved from Dupont’s Factories to Brazil and China.

Charlie Shaver, the company’s Chairman and CEO added, “We look forward to this exciting next chapter for Axalta Coating Systems. Our global scale with 35 plants and seven technology centers around the world, combined with Carlyle’s industrial …

HowTo – Painting Metalic Paints and Not Leaving Stripes

Tags: Enamel · Lacquer · Paint and Materials · Urethane

http://www.howtopaintcars.com/wp-content/gallery/misc-images/tiger.jpg?i=1458855375Some metallic paints out there are getting out of hand I recently painted a metallic red on a friends ford and when I saw it in full sun the next day all I could think was they must have cut the throat of a MySpace Glitter Unicorn to make this paint.

One of the problems you might run into when painting heavy flake metallic paint is problems with stripes.

If your lighting isn’t that great in your booth or garage you might not even notice that the metallics in your color coat have landed unevenly but once …

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