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jd man wis · Mar 25, 2018

What primer do you guys like better the gray or red and why. Thanks

Stephen Newell · Mar 25, 2018

Primer color would vary for the application you are doing. If you are painting with red paint it would take less paint to cover if you used a red primer. Then if you were painting with white paint you sure wouldn't want red primer. It would take a lot of coats of white before it would stop looking pink. Then if you are painting sheet metal which has had body work and uncertain whether the surface is level or not you can use two different colors primer alternating colors with each coat to let you know where the high and low spots are.

showcrop · Mar 25, 2018

Stephen is kind of loosely referring to the use of a guide coat which is used on high build primer which is put on over the base primer. After applying whatever coats of high build primer you are using, you apply the contrasting color guide coat in a very loose kind of a spatter spray. As you block sand it, wherever there is guide coat left, that is a low area that needs some more high build primer applied.

dr sportster · Mar 26, 2018

Modern paint systems have any color primer you want .They have charts to tell what primers to use with which colors. To learn a House of Color paint system I had to go to a seminar at an auto body shop.

MSS3020 · Mar 28, 2018

I painted skidloader years back.. used j.d. primer (yellow) as I was painting case yellow/orange. J.D. primer in my opinion was one of the best I'd ever used.. typically though I use gray..

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