Do it yourself bedliner question

[British Slave]

A gallon of DIY bedliner will be really close to being enough, is it best to go ahead and mix the gallon and a quart together so it's all one shade of basic black or take the chance and use up the gallon and then use the quart and hope that black is black?

 

[ryoken]

it wont be the color, but the texture... mix em up, then pour both in a larger bucket, mix it all, do the job, any leftover can go in the gallon can...

 

[British Slave]

That's what I thought. I used to do industrial pipe line painting and it's amazing how aluminum paint has so many shades. We mixed up to 20 gallons at a time to spray.

 

[sweetk30]

best do some reading on diy bead liners. look good but dont hold up for real hard core use.

but thay are basicly good on color match in the cans.

 

[British Slave]

LOL At my age there is no hard core use. It will just replace the carpet.

 

[ryoken]

same manufacturer, blacks are black... different manny's, not so much....

never forget when we switched to Glasurit at the body shop, painted a front clip single stage black, put the car out in the sun... the rest of the Ford looked freakin brown compared to the clip....

 

[British Slave]

I bought a new one ton crane truck once and had the tool bed painted to match the cab. Went to pick it up and the dealer discovered just how many shades of white Ford uses. It was snow white on the bed and off white on the cab. Looked terrible.

 

[ryoken]

well, your preaching to the choir when it comes to white, don't forget, I'm a boat guy...

with cars, and boats, most people don't realize that there are thousands of variations of white... at least.... 10 whites may look exactly the same to the average joe, but if you look at the tint formula, one will have 3 tints, one will have 5, one will have 9, etc, etc....

whereas black is black, it's just a question of what quality tint the manny is using...

I don't even want to get into what I have to do to match boat gelcoats.... formula? what the heck is that? it's whatever 55 gallon drum they got out back....

 

[Blaze]

It depends on the brand of liner. Some of them are really thinned out and have a longer pot life. I know when I spray Al's Liner when it is humid out you can barely spray a gallon fast enough before it starts getting too thick. When I spray interiors I normally mix 1/2 gallon at a time for when I'm building the base coat up close and then mix the final gallon for the overspray that builds the thickness.

 

[ryoken]

pretty certain we're talking about a non catalyzed product here...

 

[Blaze]

Just reread the question, I think you are right.

Too early for proper comprehension.