If you clear coat with Tremclad Morris you can use it in 2 ways. With fresh paint you can spray it within a half hour of putting down the last color coat, give the color coat at least 15 minutes to set up. On vehicles, you need to mist it on from no closer than a foot away, best is about 15". Do 3 light coats not a spit coat followed by a fill in. On vehicles your going to have to buff it anyway so dont worry if it has an orange peel look to it, it's Tremclad, it doesn't have the same hardener in it as automotive clear. What you have to be careful of is runs, the lack of a real hardener means that you'll need to wait at least 72 hours to properly sand out a run as it's a soft clear. I could only sand my door because I was taking it down to primer and redoing the whole area, it was that or live with it til the next time we get a weather spike. If it's a horizontal surface, no problems, paint with base coat, wait 20 minutes tack coat and then a fill coat, wont need any buffing as it goes on like water. I paint my grills, Rocker guard, next day is paint x 2 coats and clear x 2 coats, really, really hard to mess them up, I'll take a picture of the one I finished yesterday.

If the base coat more than a hour old, wait 72 hours. I wash what ever I paint over with laundry detergent, 1.5 caps to a Folgers coffee can of moderately hot water and use the sponges at the dollar store that have a scrub pad on one side, rinse 3 times and air dry. If you use a scotch bright pad to scuff it up, use water with a tablespoon of soap to scuff it, then rinse.

 

And here I thought you guys lived in the tropic out there..

 

Things are starting to freeze around here also. I noticed the other day that the sloughs and dugouts are iced over.

 

Front half of the property is warm as it gets the morning sun, but my back yard is always cooler due to the shade and short sun exposure. It's like 2 environments, but the shelter holds it's heat for a couple of hours after sundown.

 

So the clear you use is an automotive clear from two stage paint?
I can tell that you have us in Sk confused with some actually warm place John.
Now any place that's even partly bit shaded it`s frozen Perry.

 

Sorry if I confused you Morris, I use tremclad clear. It doesn't have the same kind of hardener as regular auto clear or it would turn hard in the can. That's why it's sometimes referred to as a soft coat and takes longer to cure. It also goes on lighter than automotive clear , test it on a vertical panel and you'll see what I mean. Once your used to it, its easy to use. Tremclad isn't as temperature sensitive as automotive paint which is why I like spraying black. On a cool day paint in the sun, on a warm day paint in the shade.

 

My fault Perry, I`m easily confused plus I`m not accurate when I speed reading.

 

Its actually pretty easy to work with stuff but in some areas you can only expect it to do so much, smooth vertical panels take a bit of extra work. It's made by rustoleum so the two of them might be interchangeable but I don't think it would work with anything else.

 

Don't tell John this Morris, but I cheat when I sand. I use my dual action sanders and the paint stripper disc on my angle grinder to knock off the 80 and 120 grit sanding as that's throw away sand paper for me. From that point on, its mostly sponge sanding blocks in medium and fine grit dipped in soapy water. I use 400 grit wet sand paper but mostly for spot work. By using soapy water I can lean a hand on my truck

 

Like anything else trial and error is a great teacher. I have a few spray guns I use for painting Tremclad and Zero Rust. With Zero Rust I found out that it never really seems to dry so it can encapsula the rust but if it's put on too thick any top coat will wrinkle.

 

With rust converter I wait 24 to 48 hours before I put tremclad primer on it and that takes 48 to 72 hours to cure.

 

Good morning everyone, my glass will be put in tomorrow afternoon, I was just talking with the man..

 

Happy Tuesday Mornin'all. Got our 1st snow overnight. It turned to freezing rain by 8am. Sunny and a high of 3 today. It'll be gone by 3pm. Have a great day guy's.

 

Just started snowing here, the hard surfaces are white now..

 

Started a -6 this morning, guess it's coffee time until the frost comes off the windows and it's closer to -1. Our high today is 1