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- 6584 Activator Quart
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Pro-grade collision, refinish and detailing supply from the brands your bay already runs, shipped within 2 business days.
Matched kits. One box. Ready for the job.
The pairs shops buy together at our counter (clear and activator, primer and activator) packed on our South San Francisco shelf and shipped as one order.
- Packed in South San Francisco
- Ships as one order
- Matched at our SSF counter
- 5 L Clear
- PCA-452-25 Medium Activator 2.5 L
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Pick your project, order the full system, ask us when you're stuck.
See it done, by the sheet.
Short, straight tutorials from the counter that mixes your paint: where your paint code is, how to hold a spray can, 1K or 2K clear, filler or glaze. New ones as the series grows.
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Right paint code, wrong color? It's usually one of these 4 things #Shorts
Same code, right formula, wrong colour on the car? It's nearly always the light you judged it under, the angle, the variant, or a spray-out card that didn't copy the job. Judge under daylight (about 6,500 K), then under a halogen and a shop LED: two formulas can match under one lamp and part under the next. A metallic is two colours, face and flop. Spray a card first, like the job: the formula's sealer shade, the same gun, distance and flash, because wet reads darker and dry reads lighter. Clear it, dry it, judge it in the panel's plane. Then tint one hit at a time, 10% of that toner's weight, only with toners already in the formula. The whole colour match, lamp to last tint, is the full video on this channel: "Stop Repainting Twice: The Spray-Out Card Rule Every Painter Should Know". Next up: what grit after body filler, every hand-off from 80 to 3000. Follow so you don't miss it.
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Stop Repainting Twice: The Spray-Out Card Rule Every Painter Should Know
The spray-out card rule: same code, right formula, and the colour is still wrong on the car. It's nearly always one of four things: the light you judged it under, the angle you judged it from, the variant you picked, or a spray-out card that didn't copy the job. Here's how a colour match actually works, from the lamp to the last tint, and the one habit that saves every repaint: spray a card first, and spray it like the job.
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This green is a quarter black: the whole recipe, gram by gram #Shorts
One cup of a dark green, mixed at our paint counter: 8 toners, 638.3 grams. A quarter of it is black. Yellow Green 217.5 g Β· Fine Green Pearl 92.3 g Β· Black Toner 86.8 g Β· Extra Black 76.8 g Β· Green Blue 54.8 g Β· Medium Golden Silver 50.3 g Β· Transparent Blue 47.2 g Β· Fine White Pearl 12.6 g. By weight: green 34%, black 26%, blue 16%, green pearl 14%, gold metallic 8%, white pearl 2%. The numbers are the mixing system's own record of this cup; the bar on screen follows the real scale.
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Cleaning a spray gun? 4 rules from the gun makers' manuals #Shorts
Four rules for cleaning a spray gun, from the gun makers' own manuals (DeVilbiss and 3M): 1. Take the cap, tip and needle off, and never put the gun body in solvent: DeVilbiss says it's hard on the packings and the lube. 2. Air cap holes get a brush or a toothpick, never a wire: 3M says a scratch can distort the spray pattern. 3. Flush the paint passage with gun cleaner (3M 26689 in the video). 4. After every cleaning, a drop of gun lube on the trigger stud, the air valve stem and the needle where it enters the packing.
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Mat or cloth over a rust hole? Fiberglass, by the makers' sheets #Shorts
Both bridge a rust hole. Mat for strength, cloth for a smoother finish, the same resin on either (3M, USC, Evercoat, from their data sheets). The whole lay-up, step by step, is the full video on this channel: "Fiberglass Resin, Mat and Cloth: How to Fix a Rust Hole".
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