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Had a long talk with a paint rep from PPG last week about something I never thought about
He was showing me how temperature changes in the booth affect the clear coat differently than the base. I always figured if the temp was stable, you were good. But he showed me a chart from a shop in Phoenix where a 15 degree swing between morning and afternoon was messing up their jobs for months. They had to adjust their flash times by almost 2 minutes. Now I'm watching my thermometer like a hawk. Any of you guys running into this with the weather getting weird lately?
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the_taylor7d ago
Man I totally get that! My thermometer at home went haywire last Tuesday and I spent like 20 minutes just staring at it thinking the sensor was broken. Turns out it was fine but the clear coat on a fender I did that afternoon got all wavy on me. Now I check it twice before I even mix anything.
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