HVLP Paint Spraying

[Clois Harlan]

I just want to make sure I understand you, did you say to wet sand the "COLOR" coat?
When I painted my Cobra I used an Optima HVLP gravity feed (my old Binks 7 and Develbiss were pretty much shot) and I used Ditzler two stage Paint System . I was told by the Ditzler rep at the time not to touch my color coat because any scratches would show through. I sprayed three good coats of color and waited about two hours and masked off my stripes and shot three more color coats for my stripes. Waited another 2 hours and shot three medium coats of clear on my top coat and then mixed a hot batch of clear and held my gun back about 14 inches to burn everything in since I knew I was going to color sand my finish coat.

I used 3M Gold 1200 grit wet or dry and hot soapy water to color sand my clear coat. Then I buffed everything with the 3M Perfection system. Great finish and I really like the HVLP system although you do still get overspray.