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Part of the video series: How to Custom Paint a Car

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Summary: Mix a single stage paint--which goes on top of the base coat--when giving a car a custom paint job; learn how from our expert custom-car mechanic in this free auto-restoration video.

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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 Mix a Single Stage Car Paint

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. Now we're going to mix up a bunch of single-stage paint. It is time to hose this car with as much black as we can get on it, as fast as we can. He's got the paint mixing can there that's got straight sides, a graduated mixing stick. He's got the right proportion of single-stage in there, the right amount of hardener, and he'll put in reducer. All depending on what it says on that scale. Don't do it by feel. Do it by the stick there. Don't try to play bench chemist, always follow the instructions. I don't allow any creativity in the shop at all. The painter has to follow the directions; you got to do it the right way. And if you do that you build a reputation with your paint supplier. If there's ever a problem he knows it's something other than you being a knucklehead when you were mixing. Some guys want it to be thicker, thinner, more hardener, less hardener, mixing speeds of hardeners and reducers, he keeps it all straight here.

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