- [Donnie] Hey, this is Donnie Smith,
and this is just a quick video of us
painting some waterborne paint.
We've already got it sealed, and he's tacking it off.
Now notice that we've only sprayed sealer
on the repaired area.
You don't seal the entire car
or you wouldn't be able to blend the paint.
We're blending within the panel of this car.
Waterborne usually matches really good,
but we're gonna go ahead
and blend the back part of this panel.
And it will be close to about match to the door
because we don't have much room up there.
But he just applied a coat of paint.
This is waterborne paint,
and with waterborne it takes extra air movement
to help it dry.
So he has a handheld air drier there.
And by the way, we are--this isn't--
we sped this up a little bit so it's
moving a little faster than normal.
But he is--you don't wanna blow directly on it.
Notice how he's going from an angle.
Basically just trying to help redirect the airflow
that the booth already has.
And he's gonna air-dry this off.
And you can see this waterborne paint.
You can actually see it whenever it evaporates.
It'll have a glossy look to it.
And you can see it dull.
Whenever it's completely dull,
you're ready for your next coat.
Not really like your traditional solvent paint
where you have to allow it to flash.
You can't really tell, you know,
when it's flashed properly.
As soon as this is completely dulled out
you're ready to apply the next coat.
So in a way, waterborne really speeds up production.
'Cause you can put a coat on,
you can air-dry it, put a coat on.
Only difference is it keeps the painter in the booth.
I mean you're busy all the time.
But you can get 'em in and out faster.
Now he is applying a second coat of base coat.
He is blending in the edges on this.
And with waterborne paint, solvent paint,
it doesn't matter what kind.
I mean the objective is, is to get full hiding.
You don't want to put it on, you know,
we're not trying to gain a lot of mills
or put it on too thick.
So whenever it--when it reaches full hiding
covers what's underneath, you know, that's all we need.
We just need the color right,
and then we can go to the clear coat stages.
And again he's using the air gun to blow this off.
And this speeds up the process.
And he's doing that.
And again notice he's kind of hitting it from angles.
He's not blowing directly onto it.
And one thing you might want to keep in mind
with these air blowers is, you know,
don't try to point it at the wall, or on the ground
or anything 'cause that might kick up dust
which will get in the paint system-- or in the paint job.
So we're just kind of blowing it directly towards the paint
and at an angle.
And again just watch it.
I mean probably can't see it on video,
but you can see when that water evaporates.
I mean it's very easy to see when you're there.
Okay, he determined this needs another coat,
so we're putting a third coat.
Sometimes two sometimes three,
and you know, sometimes it may take four
depending on the color.
But he's putting one more coat, blends it out.
When I'm talking about blending out,
you're just kind of fanning the edges
so it goes from the new paint
and kinda fades into the existing paint.
And once again he's gonna blow that off.
And just watch it as it air-dries.
You can watch the gloss go away.
You can actually see that--the water in there evaporate.
I know a lot of people were scared of waterborne
when it came out and thought it was a slower process,
but really, you know, it's a faster process.
As far as you can put, you know,
two or three or even four coats on much faster.
We even started using waterborne primer surfacer.
It's the same way, you blow it off,
when it's dry you put another coat.
You know, solvents you have to wait anywhere from
five to 15 minutes depending on the product and the brand.
And, you know, this--it eliminates that.
And they also do have booths.
Now we have just got a regular down draft booth,
but they do have booths that are made for waterborne now
where you don't have to sit there with the hand-held blower.
They've got blowers built into the booths or fans.
And that comes in handy for this.
And he was just looking at the paint real good
trying to determine if it's got full coverage.
Sometimes it's hard to tell,
and that's why we have this sun-gun.
You know, the sun-gun kinda make it look like the sun--
gives it that blue tint that the sun has
and also brightens it up, you know,
to where you can see if there's any light spots
or if it's not fully covered.
So that's what he's checkin' right now.
'Cause it has happened where it looks good in the booth
and we think that it--
Now he's putting a control coat on.
Cutting myself off there.
Now he's just--now he's having me check it out here.
And I had him go get the sun-gun. We take a look at it.
But I have had it happen,
continuing what I was talking about a minute ago,
where it looks good in the booth, you clear coat it,
then you pull it outside,
and then you can just barely see through the base coat.
You know, it looks like a stain or something like that.
Okay, we've got the base coat on. It looks good.
Now we're gonna clear coat the entire surface
that we have masked--unmasked.
We're gonna clear coat all that.
Now we don't blend our clear coat,
we're just painting the entire quarter panel.
And he's putting the first coat on.
Another thing with waterborne,
it requires a little bit tighter overlap.
Which is 50%, or 75% on the waterborne.
Now this clear coat, its still solvent that we're using.
It's a solvent borne clear-- or solvent base clear.
And it's a 50% overlap.
Now this clear, I edited out the flash time,
but it does require, you know, 15 minutes flash.
So be sure and read your technical data sheet
to determine what the flash time is on,
you know, solvent based products.
Now he is putting his second coat of clear coat on.
This is where you want to get it on nice and even,
and you want your mills.
You want full wet coats.
This is your UV, you know, it protects it from the sun.
And where you get all your protection
to the color that's underneath.
So he's got the second coat of clear on, looks good.
Now just let it dry. We're gonna bake it,
then we'll pull it out and get it ready.
There's a few dirt nips that we'll need to buff out,
and it'll be ready to put back together.
Thanks for watching and we'll see you in the next video.