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By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 02:42:01 +0000

Thanks for the response mike. Yeah I do mix the base 50/50 with 490. It seems to really be more of an issue in the cases where the ground coat is alot whiter than the car. Just kinda at a loss I have pretty much tried everything. The only other thing I have not tried was mixing groundcoat and pearlcoat 50/50 to hide the blend transition. This was a solution I was told before while using standox solvent based paint. It worked good with solvent but I dont know with the water. Thanks again for the input. Any other suggestions let me know.

By: mike

mike — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 05:55:58 +0000

Hey Mark, thanks for the question. You mentioned you blended out the ground coat. Did you blend it out using T490 mixing the ground coat 50/50. I put two or three coats of the ground down and then mix the color with T490 50/50 and blend it out past where I stopped the last coat of color. That will hide the the blend out and you will not see where you stopped the last coat of ground. Please try that out and let me know what happens.

Thanks Mark,

~Mike.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:35:15 +0000

Hi, I was wondering if you have any tips for blending tri coat whites. Ive been spraying ppg envirobase for about 8 months now pretty much love the product I just have a few issues blending some silvers and have a real annoying problem with the white pearls. I sprayed 37J today and blended out the ground coat real nice into the door everything looked good but as soon as I put the first coat of pearl down it showed a dramatic difference in color I could see exactly where the groundcoat stopped. I have had this issue now two or three times in the last couple weeks and just want to fix the problem. Usually have no issues anywhere else just the middle of the door area. Fenders and hoods I can hide it in body lines. Any advise please let me now. Thanks.

By: Johnny

Johnny — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:36:12 +0000

Hi from France to Mike
I’ve been in Calgary for a while and it’s a nice place to live in and work in body shop
I don’t know that much about PPG waterborne except for their high end clear products
As for me I ‘m used to Spies Hecker which is getting a brand new waterborne base this year
I know that in Canada painters just switched these last years into waterborne and sometimes it’s a little bit rough but you’ll be used to very soon and won’t want to go back to solvent borne, waterborne paint really gives a high end refinish

By: mike

mike — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:46:27 +0000

Hey Devin, for me personally I LOVE the Iwata W-400LV. It sprays Envirobase beautifully. It has a nice wide fan and is very light which is important for arm fatigue. I would ask your rep to bring you one in so you can demo. I use a 1.3 mm tip for the base and the same tip size for the clear.

I have three of them and absolutely love the gun.

Give it a try and tell me what you think.

Cheers,

~Mike

By: mike

mike — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 04:41:36 +0000

Hey Donnie, sorry for the slow reply. I am interested in checking out your affiliate program. I will e-mail you directly as per details.

Thanks for keeping me in mind for the program.

~Mike.

By: Deven

Deven — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:03:38 +0000

I am the painter in a shop in Saskatchewan and our shop has been spraying Enviro for 3 years. Just curious about what kind of guns you are using. I would like to buy something newer. We have the Sata 3000 HVLP and RP. What do you see out there performing the best with the ppg product. We are using the 700 series clears. Thanks.

By: Donnie Smith

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By: mike

mike — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 03:17:18 +0000

Hello Dale, to answer your questions in regards to PPG Envirobase. It is a very easy system to use indeed. A control coat is the final drop coat that is applied when spraying metallics or the top coat of a tri-stage. It is applied using lower pressure than what you apply the first two or three coats of base, I use an Iwata W-400 LV and I spray my control coat at 15 psi. It’s purpose is to make the metallics lay down evenly and orientate perfectly eliminating any blotchy look or what we call mottling. With the application of the control coat you will never see blotchy looking finishes again even with golds and chunky metallics.

The control coat is NOT applied to solid colors so two coats of solid color and then blow dry and then it’s time to clear coat. The best thing in my opinion is the tools PPG offers you. A touch mix screen which makes mixing the base coat very simple. A chromatic color deck which is so simple to use, I love the fact that all the color’s in the decks are in order, white’ are all in with the White’s, Black’s are all with the Black’s and so on.

Another key feature of the system is anti-settle toners which need no mechanical agitation, just hand shake and pour. No need to wait fifteen minutes when you run out of a tinter, just shake the new tinter and pour away.

There are many more great features to list so if you need any more help, please feel free to leave another comment/question and I will be happy to answer.

Thanks,

~Mike.

By: dale79

dale79 — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 02:35:57 +0000

I have been researching waterborne paint for almost a year now and thinking about switching over to PPG envirobase waterborne paint. The problem is I don’t know much about this product and the different spraying techniques. So I guess I’ll start asking the basic questions. What is the control coat? what is it’s function? I have have spraying solvent basecoat for 10 years and this new technology is very confusing. Any help getting me started with the transition would be very helpfull. I have been spraying dupont for the past ten years but word of mouth is PPG envirobase once understood is very easy. My paint gun is a iwata lph-400 lv extreme series.