intercoat clear

[DDG]

I would definitly
spray a catalyzed clear over the candy and charcoal. If you don't, the candy color will bleed into the white when sprayed. You need to lock down the candy toners with this clear.
Trust me, been through it. Then wet sand and spray your white stipes and clear again.
The four coats refers to all at once. Like putting on four coats of black, don't go crazy with it. HOK is made to withstand up to 15 mils in paint thickness. So you shouldn't have any problems.
Good luck,
Dirt

 

[DaveK]

Yep.... agree with Dirt on that one. For some reason, people think intercoat clear is a clear coat. Its not. Some people use it to keep there window alive while they airbrush. They spray a supper reduce intecoat clear over there airbrush work each night so they don't have to use, what I call, an epoxy based clear on it. Again, intercoat clear is just paint without pigment and somebody already said that here

DaveK

 

[wammied]

Hi all, I'm restoring a '73 Honda cb500 in the original paint scheme using HOK orion silver with root beer kandy on top.
The tank will have charcoal side panels with no kandy. I sprayed the whole tank silver and then 3 coats of intercoat clear. Now I'm going to tape off the side of the tank and shoot charcoal.
Then I would like to shoot another intercoat clear. Then I'll tape over the side panel and shoot root beer kandy on the silver top.
Then another coat of clear to protect the kandy while I spray two white stripes seperating the kandied silver from the charcoal.
Seeing as I'll end up with 7-8 coats total of intercoat clear, will this be too much?
Does the fact that it's interspersed between color coats matter?
When they say "maximum 4 coats" do they mean total # or is that just the limit between colors? Sorry my question is so wordy but these questions are tough to put together so they come out right in printed format. Thanks for all the help,
Mike

 

[wammied]

The kandy is going on top of the clear. The clear is on the charcoal so I can tape over it for the kandy.
This way I'll have silver with kandy over it next to charcoal with no kandy.
Also wound up just taping off silver stripes instead of the white.
In the end, I won't have anything over the kandy except top coat clear.
One thing I did learn, don't wipe inter clear with thinner! Luckily I caught it before #%^#ing it up.
Thanks for the answer about the number of inter clear coats, sounds like I'll be o.k.
Mike