Originally Posted by
LGHT
I called a local shop that sells chromax and they said it would be tricky to get the clear right. He suggested a single state paint instead. He said if you put the 2 finished products side by side you wouldn't be able to tell the difference and in fact the single stage may look better as it's a deeper darker finish.
Yes!!! The base and color are almost trivially easy to apply but the clearcoat is tricky...too little and it's lumpy or orange peel and slightly too much and it sags. It's tricky on broad flat surfaces but on the tight curves and corners of a frame is much trickier. For spraying the clear, it's best to rig the frame up so it's held firmly and can be rotated on a horizontal axis, like BBQ spit. After clearcoating, you can keep rotating it to help prevent sags. One of the cool thing about this kind of system is that you can do very complex multicolor schemes very easily. If you screw it up it's very easy to fix and get right prior to clearcoating, after which it's a done deal.
Also, the clearcoat disolves and wets through all the colors and primer, so if you mess up spraying the clear and try to wipe it, it'll smear everything.
You definitely need to practice on some test pieces first to get the spraygun settings, distances, sweep speed etc. down.