Clean Armor FAQ Session #1: Application Thickness

Based on customers frequently asked questions, here is the start of a new video series to answer these questions in greater detail. In this episode, I am stressing the fact that Clean Armor is 100% solids and needs to be applied with about one third in thickness of what you are used with traditional finishes...

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+1 on the 3m extract net discs. Was able to buy 50 of them for $27 on Amazon. And I agree.. These last far longer than any other paper I have used but when you use it on clean armor, they last about 1/4 to 1/8 as long as they do when just sanding wood. Thats just a testament to how tough clean armor actually is!

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have to admit, the girlfriend joke gave me a chuckle

[@pctatc66]

Perfect timing Setffen! After not having great results with my Earlex HV 5500 Spray station with 1.0 tip I bought a Black Widow HTE spray gun from Harbor Freight. Professional automotive painters have reviewed this gun and have said they would and do use the gun in their line of work. I'm going to take your tips and apply it this week as soon as my next bottle of 700 in gloss gets here. I hope I will see a marked improvement over my last time trying to spray with the Earlex. Let me ask you this, Is it worthwhile pouring the material through a strainer right out of the bottle before it goes into the cup or is this not necessary? I suspect part of the reason my results were so poor last time is that I never cleaned the gun and can in the earlex prior to using it. I'm sure there were all kinds of foreign material in the cup and gun that left all the cherries I was seeing in my finish. (This was a brand new gun that was 5 years old and never used!) I am not going to make that mistake again. I will clean the new Black Widow gun with isopropyl alcohol prior to to use. They want you to clean it with a solvent but the alcohol should do the job as well since I only plan on spraying clean armor through it.

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