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Prepare for Clear Coating Application

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Gel Staining Fiberglass Doors. How to use Gel Stains.

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What happens here

Once the stain is confirmed dry, prepare the area and equipment for clear coating. This involves masking off any remaining hardware on the doors with Frog Tape and performing any final touch-ups to the stained surfaces. If working in cold conditions, set up heaters and create a tented area around the doors to ensure the clear coat can be applied and cure effectively. Prepare a Titan 440i sprayer set at approximately 2200 psi, using a RAC X fine finish tip size 310, and load it with Minwax Helmsman Water-Based Spar Urethane. Also, set up drop cloths to protect the floor from overspray.

Goal: Ready the environment, doors, and equipment for clear coat application.

Tools and materials

  • Brush — Performing final touch-ups
  • Drop Cloths — Protecting surrounding surfaces from overspray
  • Frog Tape — Masking off hardware
  • Heaters — Warming the area for optimal clear coat application and drying
  • Plastic Sheeting — Creating a tent for warmth and overspray control
  • RAC X Fine Finish Tip — Ensuring a smooth clear coat finish
  • Titan 440i Sprayer Titan — Applying the clear coat

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a gel stain. We've got a heater set up still to warm them up today to spray the clear coat because as you can see outside it's cold outside. We've got masking up and created a tent to keep the warm air inside here to be able to spray in with our water-based clear coat. We're getting ready to clear coat this door now. We're actually masking off the hardware with Frog Tape. Doing a few little touch-ups on it. We just set up a getting ready to set up our 440 in here to spray it with our Helmsman. We'll be setting some drop cloths down in here. Be using the Helmsman water-based product right here.

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