Applying a coating with a DA

[Mgavin1985]

Some of our cousins across the pond have been applying coating by DA I think I might try it with can coat first because I ran out of sprayers and I bought about 10 outlet store BF crystal coating and cut it 1/3 with mineral spirits to get to have decent flash time it’s still not as easy as csl or GC. I have two coating jobs for friends their getting discount so they can be the tester. What foam pad should I use have a couple lake closed cell forget what they are called.

[Mgavin1985]

My plan is speed 2 or 3 with no pressure and buff until it squeaks doing 2 coats and hopefully majority of leveling is done and easy wipe off.

[FUNX650]

My plan is speed 2 or 3 with no
pressure and buff until it squeaks

doing 2 coats and hopefully majority
of leveling is done and easy wipe off.

All the best... (๑ʘ∆ʘ๑)


Bob

[Mgavin1985]

To report it did not work but I used blackfire crystal coat about abunch of those 8 oz bottles on sale so didn’t mine playing around with it.i used to much would have been better to use a little I think it did help to push the coating into the paints pits and valley and pores. Maybe a first coat by da and second by hand

[SWETM]

Polish Angel Cosmic v2 and Viking Coat can be applyied with a DA polisher and a soft application polishing pad. If you want a coating that is made to both apply by hand and polisher

[Mike Phillips]

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[Calendyr]

Hum...

I wouldn't use a DA to apply a coating for the following reasons:

1. There is no need to. For coatings, all you need to do is insure every inch of the surface is covered. Using a DA will not help with that at all.
2. It's wasteful. Coating cost a fortune. Using a large DA pad will ensure a lot of product will be absorbed in the pad and will be lost. You want the smallest, less absorbant applicator you can use for this reason.
3. The is a chance of overworking the product, heating it up and making it flash too fast before it could be leveled, this could lead to you having to remove the coating and re-apply it.

Overall, I think it is a terrible idea.

[Mgavin1985]

Yes it was! It’s for the birds. I got lost in a hyperlinked long thread on a European forum site and saw some of our Europeans detailers doing it. Maybe a cancoat type would work but the only benefits is pushing those nano particle deep into paint pores then doing a final coat by hand that was the theory,

[itsgn]

What's the point of using a machine to apply a coating anyway? To apply a coating you don't have to go over the same surface over and over, iteratively, so using a machine polisher to apply it won't be any more effective or faster than using just the pad without having the machine attached to it and rotating it. Also, the heat generated by the machine polishing process might cause premature curing of the coat. And of course if you have to hold the weight of the machine, which will also be vibrating, you'll have less control over the process and will feel less how hard you're pushing against the paint. To me this thing it just makes no sense, at so many levels and for so many reasons.

[Mgavin1985]

Koch chemie recommends one other coatings to be applied that way. Might could look at it as a lazy mans nanolex method if speed was slow enough. Overall it was pointless less.