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Summary: "Shoot" the car with a paint gun to apply paint to a car, applying it more heavily to any repair areas; learn how using the tips in this free auto-maintenance video on paint restoration.

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Doug Jenkins Doug, of “Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods”, not only servers the entire nation, but even customers outside the U.S have found the shop's services indispensable. ... read more

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How to Apply Paint to a Car

Hi, I'm Doug. I work with twenty great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. So Andy's next trick in a row is to shoot this black. He tests his gun, makes sure he has the right pattern there. And right before he shoots he's going to wipe it down with the tack rag to get any dust that he got on there when he was masking, get any of that off. And he starts at the corner there so he has a good square edge to start with and puts it on the repair area a little bit heavier than elsewhere. He stops the trigger everytime the gun is not moving. So as he goes from left to right he doesn't just hold the trigger down. You'd end up with a big pile of paint at the end of each pass that way. So, he's shutting the trigger off each time the gun isn't moving. So back and forth he keys the thing. If you watch his hand you can see that he's letting off and not spraying a big pile there. Importantly though he keeps the air flowing during that time so he doesn't end up with a big spot or to start and stop. The first coat of black that Andy did covered real nice. But, you can still see that there's little flat spots in it. So he's putting a second coat of black on there to get perfect coverage so that the whole thing has one uniform color one uniform texture and one uniform degree of shininess. Even though this does get a clear coat on it, if you have a thin coat of black or you have different textures of it, even after you spray the clear coat on it, it will still show the imperfections through there. So you gotta do the black perfectly and straight.

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