I can't wait to try this trick of heating clear. It could extend my painting season a couple more months. Thanks Gunman !

Thanks from Texas! GUNNMAN, your videos help me to stay focused on my trade, the quality of my jobs have expedetioanly gone up thanks to your advice! You have helped me to succeed! Crazy to think I started as a preper trainee never touched a gun 4 years ago now I now run the company. your 15 years of experience and advice Is invaluable to me and my guys. Thanks again Bro!

@TheSettttth

6 жыл бұрын

Joshua Mcclelland where at in Texas are you? I paint at my dads shop in Austin

@shookbubba

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheSettttth to

Thanks for taking the time to doing a vid like this gunny, being in ACT we get some pretty cool temps, this has helped me a lot with my first project.

@The Gunman been heating my HS clear up to 55-60 cel. Ever since I seen this vid years ago, cut my runs and sags by 90%. Using a matrix sys. AUTOGLAS EURO HS CLEAR for awhile now and this trick saves me allot of extra work here in cold ass canada, thx gunny.

Thank you Gunman .. Also Have the pleasure of painting in the cold mountain weather, not always easy! Tips have helped!

Another great educational vid gunman top work. I heat the clear now and it really does come out a lot better, it was a little warmer here on the weekend so i got a false confidence and didn't heat it and you guessed it nice big run in a door, lucky i watched the bog trick vid and managed to sand it out and didn't need to redo it, so thanks for that vid as well.Re a dusk mask while sanding i found the paper disposable ones irritated the shit out of me , didn't seal properly and gave me a bad rash so i bought a 3m 7500 series silicon mask with dust filters and it works great and i hardly notice i have it on. Bought mine of ebay from china for $20 with filters , was well worth it. Just thought I would throw that in incase anyone else had problems with the disposable ones they might be worth a try for them as well. Cheers

great vid as usual leaves are starting to change now were are at about avg 18C so what ive started to do on the sunny days is put my clear in my car but im going to try your kettle trick. Did my first HS clear job on a Hummer H3 worked great now just waiting for my new gun lol. I can never in the winter get the shop over 58 f lol

Good stuff Gunman. I've done this a lot with DG (Direct Gloss / 2K) paints in some of our Truck booths which are colder, it works well.

Thanks from Minnesota gunman, great lessons, I thoroughly enjoy them.

thanks for the tip about putting laquer and hardener in a bucket of warm water it works a treat

hi gunman love the videos. I've seen many people on you tube painting. but you make it a joy to Watch. keep painting Peter from uk

Thanks for all the help and information, priceless knowledge money can’t buy.

Iv been following your channel an inspiration for sure much love the gunman!

The weather is starting to turn here in the UK so I have bought a heater for my shed which is where I shall be attempting to spray my motorbike fairings over winter. I have ordered the ANI R160 Q based on your review and am really rather hopeful of the results. I've been watching your videos and your work is first class. Thanks for sharing your knowledge 😎

I love your channels.. Your tips and tricks are great.. Keep doing what you are doing

Hello Gun Man I want to let you know that you're advice on your videos are extremely insightful. I really respect and thank you for your efforts on keeping all of us informed and educated by sharing your priceless knowledge with us all please keep the videos coming I have learned so much from you. keep Up the great work!

@actorzone856

8 жыл бұрын

yes I agree, I have learned all my spray painting from the Gunman videos, excellent tutorials, 5 star videos.

great info, gonna try this real soon, will be getting cold here soon in the U.S.

Some more great tips!! I love the videos! I'm sure this takes a ton of time to edit and load them up for us to watch, but they are very much appreciated! Thank you!!!!

@TheGunmanChannel

8 жыл бұрын

Great to hear and thanks for watching

@TheGunmanChannel

2 жыл бұрын

@chilo I wouldn't do that. I'd recommend a fast reducer, not warming the reducer

Thanks man. Top notch lessons.

@TheGunmanChannel

8 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching mate

Cold temps, winter in the UK, lots of light coats, plenty of flash off between, and as Gunman says, rocket or similar is a huge help, heating the clear helps it flow a lot better as well as drying quicker.

Thanks My Guy! Paint Love From Florida🙏😎

all your videos are spot on mate cheers

Amazing video.... as usual.. Thank you

Love your new raw channel, some more raw body prep videos would be appreciated. Have painted below 10° before, big-time solvent popping occurred. Had to do a little bit of buffing. Thanks for the videos and really appreciate your time putting them together.

@TheGunmanChannel

9 жыл бұрын

+markawoodbridge I have loads of raw prep, I'll upload soon

Great bit of advice much better result, keep up the good work.

mate you rock man out standing very comprehensive learn't heaps off you brother well done let me know when you spray a 240zlove your work

More great info, cudos mate.

17'C cold? :D nice one. to me that's the highest temperature in sumer ;)

@MrDEANOSCOOLVIDS

4 жыл бұрын

im at 0atm fuck sake

@Locost59

3 жыл бұрын

As soon as I heard the accent I wondered what “cold” meant. There’s snow outside today and I was wondering if I could get away with it in my unheated garage. I’d consider 17c plenty warm enough...

@rossokeefe9268

3 жыл бұрын

Yup ,never seen real cold..17c is t shirt weather for me

I paint most winters in below freezing temperatures and heat my laquer to speed up times. I've never heated my hardener tho as I thought it would to harden in the can once it cooled. We learn something new every day

Hey Gunnman.!!. Here in the Netherlands Europ, it’s now minus 3 *C Outside.. in our bodyshop and homemade spraybooth we have about 7 *C panel temperature maximum.. We store Cromax Pro waterbased basecoat at 21 *C.. For clearcoat we use Cromax VR-1120 with VR-1130 hardener + 5% R-421 varispeed 2k drying booster, heated up in a bucket of warm water.. After spaying clearcoat we can warm up the booth with 2 x 3000 wattt electical coil heaters up to 20 *C.. After 90 minutes is’t hard enough to polish dust, or any other defects.. Yesterday i’ve dit an overall respray on a Porsche 911.. Yesterday it came out better,,, than it did in 2010 strait out of the Porsche factory..

your the best man many thanks!!!!

Great little tip there mate.

great info very informative

Wow you are absolutely amazing and fun to listen to this is been a big help for me somebody who doesn’t paint very often but likes to make you felt a lot of people thank you so much try to buy a black T-shirt on your website you were sold out let me know when you get some more large thank you Lonnie

ive found that 90 degrees F works best for me in a heated booth. where the mix computer is gets ice cold so heating my clear is essential. thanks for the tip.

Great spraying, that gun works great...cleaned my gun..still seems blocked a bit...dismantle the gun after each use, clean with thinners and gun was kit. Might clear the blockage soon. 😀

Thanks brilliant really helpful

Re heating up the clear,would you do the same for 2k solid gloss,just wondering .love your vids

Thanks for the info bro

When I have to paint here in Texas and the weather is around 40 F or 42 F degrees, I put my clear for around 40 seconds after mix with the hardener and work pretty nice when you heating in the microwave. We have one exclusive for the cold days.

1:59 his burp reminds me of Rick hahahahahhaaha fucking hilarious he just keeps going too

Good job

For smaller parts like my Harley Davidson headlight ring and foot peg clevis I just bring the parts inside overnight to bring them up to room temp along with the paint. Head out to the garage with a cheap electric space heater the following day. Spray while the paint and metal parts are still relatively warm and stick them in front of the space heater after each coat. Works great even in sub freezing temps.

It is 50 ferenheit here in New Jersey which I think is 10 celsius. I have a small garage and will be doing this to my paint and clear coats with hot water. What if the panels are still cold? Does it matter?

nice job

Awesome awesome awesome video again. I completely learned spray painting following your videos and I am really really thankfull for you helping us newbies get the hang of this. Just a question. After your recommendations I a purchased the FLG5 and I am glad I did. I love it. But in Transilvania winter came and the temperatures dropped fast, I can keep my booth at arround 20 degrees but since it got cold, I had 3 jobs which were messed up. My clear ran on like the whole upper part of a door, etc. Tomorow I will try the clear heating trick but was just wondering. What settings would you recommend for 1.3fan FLG5? Probably same as ProLite with TE20?

Hi mate. Another fantastic video I just came across! Quick question mate: I have 3 different hardeners for my clear depending on the temperature. If I warm paint up first do I go by temperature of paint or booth when selecting hardener? Thanks mate and keep them coming for us mere mortals 😃👍

good job

Painted today at 39f Took me 4 hours with the long ass flash off time!

I have to paint in UK weather outside below 10 degrees. It is a nightmare..

Your vids are very informative! So am I able to spray base coat in 17c temps?

Have you ever used a viscosity cup with that temperature of clear? Just wondered if it’s mega quick?

very good- but do you encounter paint reactions with undercoats

I just painted my car outdoors in the UK in around 2-3 degrees centigrade and failed epicly. I've always painted in the warmer months. Gosh, my clear just rannnnn and ran, but worst of all, it never dried properly and just went all white n hazy, as though I didn't put enough reducer in the mixture (I used two thirds clear). Next day it rained and then of course the clear ended up with rain drops inside it. I tried to sand down and polish with my machine....it worked in the sense that the finish became nice, but when it rained again, it left watermarks in the clear. At that point, I realised it was never going to harden enough and I'd have to paint again and use an accelerator. I'll also heat up the clear too.

Hi gunny i am doing a full respray on my brothers maloo iv been out off the trade for 9yrs im in Melbourne and its winter how hot should i get the water to put the clear in? What clear do u recommend? Any other trick up ur sleaze to paint in winter?

Hey gunny, Im in NZ and im finding the clear isn’t flowing out flat. not orange peel, just not flat. Im using a medium hardener and no accelerator. Im outside as I do mobile repairs and it sits around 10 deg at the mo. Ive been putting the clear in the sun and heating the panel. The gun looks like the atomization is good and its not going on too light, so I don’t think its me. Its OK for for a low down repaid, but not a door or fender. Is it just the temp fighting me or ya got any ideas.

Sorry to comment on such a old video followed some of your tips here today on a nice cool 17C morning all sunny and dry i seem to have gotten solvent pop but i barley used any solvent as i heated the paint up to a nice 50C , sprayed at 35PSI with my DV1 base , i am very confused i did two coats 15 min apart two wet coats pretty wet but glass like , any advice ? can they be cut and buffed out if they are not to deep ? i am just utterly confused as i used slow activator etc did everything correct by the book

So if it's not good to paint a car part when the temperature is below 10! What's a good heater to use to heat up two cars garage, thanks

hey guys,painted a quarter panel.but my gun was splattering.. temperature was 65 degrees. i havnt reduce the paint for like 10 months...a guy at a shop told me not to🙁 could that be the problem? and what reducer should i get?

Would it be the same process painting acrylic one stage in cold weather?

Hi, I enjoy your helpful videos. I am new to painting and noticed today that my clear wasn't slicking out as it normally does. It was about 60F, and I was using a medium activator. should I use a faster activator? i'll warm up my clear next!

@MorganandQuinn

7 жыл бұрын

👍

hi thanks again for the video your very promt in your reply,i like that however with having a non heated booth my booth temperature is 10 degrees first coat of clear am getting solvent pop i haven't heated the clear up could this be the reason ? my gun is iwata lph400lv 20psi 2.5 to 3 turns out on fluid air is clean just struggling to solve this problem just needing your advise thanks mate.

@jonathangalea8669

8 жыл бұрын

+xjs2 Maybe youre laying your first coat of clear too heavy! At 10C its a must to warm your clear and use fast hardener....also check your Paint Data sheets as most paints do not even suggest painting below 10C

our booth broke and has only just been fixed 3 days ago and I was painting for two weeks at 2°c real bad. it was a bad experience especially with two jobs being long wheelbase camper vans with high roofs. and one if them was a full side and roof!!!!

Mix the paint first, then heat that cup. Heating up whole cans of hardener can make it go hard very quickly, because condensation will develop inside the canister as you are heating and cooling it.

I be better in winter using heater in garage but what type of heater wouldn't want to use a gas heater or a kerosene heater. Do have a heater in garage but it not full electric. I see other garage heaters online though. I have fast reducer at home for clear but don't know if have fast hardner.

Try a cheap radiator heater works great

When painting in the cold.. is it fast or slow reducer ? For the base

i sand blasted and resprayed my motorcycle tank yesterday, in 2k Satin black, then 2k HS clear... Came out like GLASS, I left it in my shed to dry etc, came back the next day to see one side of the tank is mega shiny, but the other side is really foggy! can barely see the black.. Is that due to coldness? Annoyed me, i got the tank painted up so nice and literally looked like glass, and now i have to do it all again! cheers

Nice "burp" during the commentary...........excellent video!

@utterlyboredandhungry

3 жыл бұрын

soo funny I thought!

Tried spraying wings at 4 degrees yesterday- it looks appalling

Just cleared entire vehicle with outside temp at 20 degrees F. I have about 500 runs in the clear. Vehicle surface temp is approx 55 degrees F.

Good am moving down south I live in Michigan United States it gets cold here in winter but moving to Texas so painting a vehicle be better all year doing especially in the desert where I plan on moving to i before the next 9 months my older brother lives in Texas. It was 90 degrees in the desert there this month already here it got 80 for the first time yesterday but not everyday though. About 60 today.

How about 30-60 degree temperatures or lower because my paint job didn't come out great and I can see the flakes on my truck after I put 2k clearcoat on. It was about 65 or 70 the day I did it. I didn't use no color blender and no slow reducer. But the temperature on the 2k clearcoat said 100 on it Speedkote 2k urethane clearcoat. I used 3 basecoat and 3 clearcoats and I didn't use no primer either because it didn't have a much major imperfections. I live in Michigan so it gets cold here but I never got that professional appearance painting yet. Also is it just better when painting a vehicle to always use factory paint from the dealership you got the vehicle from or just regular factory paint from your vehicle manufacturer. I have a Dodge Dakota now and done painting it but just wanna know this stuff so in the future my paint jobs look and get a lot better because I only been painting about 3 months now but my vehicle still didn't come out looking professional yet but am new to this stuff.

Another no bullshit vid! Nice work! Is that your new hash tag... #GunManAcademy

@TheGunmanChannel

9 жыл бұрын

+Jarrod Walker haha, thanks man :-)

Great job man,Im a begginer ,Should I unmask the car and remove all tapes before baking it!? Thanks man

@TheGunmanChannel

9 жыл бұрын

+muhammad abdeen No, Wait until its dry or you run the risk of touching the wet paint. Cheers :-)

@muhammadabdeen2321

9 жыл бұрын

+The Gunman you're the greatest ,thanks man I appreciate it

It's about 10 degrees centigrade here in the UK at the moment. I was really disappointed with the performance of my new Devilbiss FLK5 until I watched this video; initially I had been getting bad orange peel and sags/runs. After heating up my paint cans in a sink of hot water the performace of this gun was transformed. I was able to "smash it on" and it looks great. Thanks for this great advice.

@TheGunmanChannel

4 жыл бұрын

Sometimes it seems so obvious once you know. Glad it helped 😊

Do you re-sand after each coat?

I think now I might have fast clear activator because have Nason fast reducer and bought a clear fast product too so it probably was the activator fast but is Speedkote clear not Nason. But have been using Paint For Cars basecoat urethane metallic basecoat. But none of my paint jobs have turned out good enough yet but haven't been paying attention to instructions on can either but looked at them yesterday when got this new paint from Paint For Cars website it actually is Starfire auto paint. It said use tack cloth and to use medium wet coats but I told the manufacturer to send a email with all the instructions but the difference this time would be using fast hardner and reducer because haven't used it before just medium reducer and harder. It gonna be in 40's next month where I live in Michigan in the United States but it gets colder than that in December through February could get down under 10 degrees here. Best bet for me in future is to get a heater for painting inside a garage because in Michigan it get too cold for not having a heater here to be able to paint all year but rather use a electric heater.

I use a deep fryer , plug it in put water in it and turn to the lowest temp !

@TheGunmanChannel

8 жыл бұрын

Good idea

@scottherr642

6 жыл бұрын

which deep fryer do you use? most cheap ones are small and big 5l cans wont fit. interesting idea-thanks

Hey gunny. I sprayed my base coat real neat. Do I sand before clear? No right?

@johnnyd5687

2 жыл бұрын

No do not sand base coat

Tried this out last week, worked bitchn.

I always heat my clear in cold conditions , ig flows better and thins it out . Well recommend to all you painters

@TheGunmanChannel

6 жыл бұрын

+Marco Muia one of the best tricks of the trade 😉

how cold is cold? Can you spray paint in sub-zero temperatures?

cn i ask gunman??how to apply waterbse ferrari pearl???the main process.

Would there be any benefit from warming base coat to? Cheers gunman

@TheGunmanChannel

Жыл бұрын

I tried that, it's not a good idea haha. It skins over in the pot and has no real benefit. It also dries much faster than clear so not really necessary

killa! so spraying with no reducer and the clear heated up works. does the gloss die or does the clear blush because the panel temp could be between 10 and 20 degrees and the clear is 50 or more? I have been tempted to do it but just not sure. Thanks for uploading gunman!

@TheGunmanChannel

9 жыл бұрын

Never had that happen, I've found the gloss will hold better when heated.

@alexshepherd

7 жыл бұрын

Joshua Nolte - clear will blush if you have high humidity (can be a problem in either cold or hot weather, damp climate here in Hamilton, NZ) - I hit it with a heat gun when that happens and the 'blush' disappears

@TheGunmanChannel

7 жыл бұрын

Alex Shepherd I've never seen 2k do it but have seen acrylic do it, we just left it then came straight out with a buff.

hey gunman any advise for us poor people who can't afford a booth and have to paint outside??? I have a small garage but everytime I paint in there my panels and paint get nothing but fisheyes in it.??? even if the garage is empty?! I get a better finish outside on sunny days haha!!

bloody winter gets me too

it would be realy cool if you could get the time/opportunity to do a how to paint motorcycles ...what guns to use and other tricks and what to avoid and other tricks and stuff like that

@thomasjoseph7869

8 жыл бұрын

+Sheldon Booker In my experience a good gun for spraying bikes is the devilbiss Sri pro. 0.8 or 1.0 for base and 1.2 for clear. I just find it easier using the smaller guns for bike panels, with all the curves and vents.

@CharlieBooker00

8 жыл бұрын

thanks alot :)

@gunman, or anyone else that what to respond will this trick/ tip of heating work on primers and base coat? Thanks to you gunman for all the vids you have posted and thanks to anyone the replies

@TheGunmanChannel

4 жыл бұрын

You could do it with primer but I don't usually. But don't do it with basecoat because it stays skinning over in the pot, trust me, I tried haha

Good morning I would like to know at what pressure and how many turns of fluid do you give to the varnish gun thanks

@TheGunmanChannel

7 жыл бұрын

4 turns fluid at 2 bar-29 psi, thanks for watching and have a good day.

@jorgesuarez3901

7 жыл бұрын

Four laps do not suffer from pick up or you have to apply. Quick

@TheGunmanChannel

7 жыл бұрын

jorge suarez Yes, you can adjust to suit your style.

I tried this out the other week and had a disaster, not sure if it was related to the heat in the clear or air flow in my booth but ended up with bad solvent pop over the whole car front to back top to bottom started spraying with ambient temps of about 15c and was about 24c when I finished. :S

@TheGunmanChannel

9 жыл бұрын

+Aza X Sorry to hear mate, I am yet to have it fail me and know a lot of people have also had good results, what paint were you using.

@253UC

9 жыл бұрын

+The Gunman Wanda hs clear I have a feeling I may have had the air speed in the booth too high causing it to skin over trapping the solvents I sanded it right back and reshot it the following weekend when it was warmer without dramas, still working out the kinks with my setup

@markkrul3429

6 жыл бұрын

It works for this guy...somehow...but I find that heat is your enemy on the clear coat.

can you do a video on how to shine acrylic?

@TheGunmanChannel

9 жыл бұрын

+Daniel379Drummer One day I will get around to it

As I work as a mobile paint technician we don't get temperatures over 20°C. Coldest temp yet -3°C along with rain and wind 😂 Wondering how would you perform in this kind of environment :)

@TheGunmanChannel

7 жыл бұрын

I reckon I'd make do or just move back to Perth lol. Merry Christmas man :)

@piotrpotrzebny

7 жыл бұрын

The Gunman thank you! you too mate!

Need help!!! I plan on painting in my garage and in New Jersey it is average 50F. Will I have issues? My boss gave me a week vacation and I plan on doing this and I have all the supplies ready

first comment . Nice!! lol

well i have been sprayijg below 10 degreew but i,ll to the same thing like you heat the clear and the panel, then you wil have no runs !

I just base and cleared my engine compartment in 45-50 degrees fahrenheit. I didn't heat the panels prior to painting nor did I heat the paint. I can't WAIT to see the solvent blisters in a couple months. I'm kicking myself so hard right now.

@jacobsalinas2976

5 жыл бұрын

linglingjr hey, how did it turn out after all?

Did I hear it right? 20psi?

3 degrees yesterday, had to use two lamps on a spot repair and still got a run... uk...no choice lol. Oh mobile repair so no booth.

@michaelkent1505

4 жыл бұрын

Spraying at home today outside 4 degrees even primer ran lol any tips? I've just ordered infrared lamps to preheat panel and cure quicker.