Remove A Paint Run in 1 Minute. Removing Paint Runs.

this christy idaho painter here on paint life tv today we've got a really cool product we're going to be talking about called true swipe i got journeyman john with me and this is a cool product because we discovered something with this product that it does and it eliminates runs simply easily without bondo and without sandpaper and this product was originally created to test for oil-based paint wasn't it john it was yep you take a little they've got little wipes or swabs you can wipe it on oil-based paint if the paint comes off that's how you know it's latex if it doesn't it's going to be oil and then you know that you need to take the precautions in order to coat over top of that oil so it's a tiny little swab right here you would just rub this little oh this is the wipe and then this one is a swap so we got swabs and wipes and we were introduced to this product here just this year at the pdca show in texas so the inventor of this walked up introduced himself to us and talked about this product here's the swab right here kind of like a very large q-tip and just talk to us about it and i got a hold of some of the samples and then john you discovered this amazing thing that it does eliminating runs it does so how does it go about doing that well the it's a mixture of alcohol and some other things and i think it's whatever the blend is helps it so that you can use it to basically melt down latex paint runs or acrylic based paint runs but it's the way it smooths everything out it's not like just using normal alcohol the other nice part is the swabs as an applicator actually work really well so typically we've got a door here that it i think the hardest part of doing this project was trying to figure out how to put spits and runs on this door so that we can fix them but typically a door like this if you have spits or runs you've got to wet sand it bond to it and then re-spray it and it's kind of a timely process right yes with something like this way faster way faster and i do have to say trying to create spits and runs for this project was extremely difficult because i've spent the last 17 years trying not to create spits and runs and so i created this big old mess on this door and not it's not the greatest spits in the runs in the world but i think it's gonna work i do think it's gonna work it doesn't look good and we're gonna make it look better yeah so it's incredible these swabs what they do and i i do we've kind of been talking about them on our social media a little bit because we absolutely love these things we actually started selling them on our store because we believe in them so much and then there's a bunch of people that have been saying well i'm rubbing alcohol is just the same but there's more than just rubbing alcohol in these two swipes and we talked to the guy that developed it created it and we learned some of the other stuff that's in there that causes it to be able to rub out these runs a lot better than just rubbing alcohol and then these q-tips these swabs are amazing they're really fat and they're really smooth compared to just a standard q-tip that you would use to clean your ear yeah so um john we do have some runs all over this door and some spits so and we're gonna try to show you i'm gonna give you a close-up view on with my phone of john eliminating some spits and runs on here and what it does so we got a few packets they come in large boxes so you can buy them by the box you can buy them i think by the pack there's three in a pack right there there are three swabs in a pack and they cost between two and a half and three bucks for a pack of of the three swabs um but to me the amount of time you save to fix a door like this completely worth it it's absolutely completely worth it like john says and you can easily store you know several of these packs in your vehicles we now just store them in our vans and literally for the amount if it's just a couple two three dollars to eliminate a run for two three dollars not have to wet sand not have to bondo it's well worth the time and effort it does come in these boxes too i think you can buy and buy the boxes on the um yes you can buy the swabs in boxes you can buy the wipes in boxes and then obviously there's the original purpose or you know like checking for oil-based paint which can save you a huge headache if you run into that and that's what's incredible these things were introduced or they were created for a testing for oil-based paint what happens if you don't test for oil-based oil-based paint you paint water-based paint over the top of it without prop properly prepping it it's just all gonna peel and scratch right off yeah it's a huge mess and it really doesn't matter what you put over the top of it you're always going to have a compromised substrate don't make that mistake for a simple little wipe like this you'll know exactly what you're dealing with and know how to prep it so john we got a bunch of surgery problems you might not be able to see them in the camera but i'm going to give you a close-up view with my 4k iphone and the the beauty of this is this was only sprayed probably an hour maybe just under an hour ago yeah and so we haven't waited a long time it's just sat uh just tacked up so it's just dry to the touch i know so people have um asked like a week later so if you got the run can you come by can you go into some house a week later or a year later and get rid of a run to me this is the most effective if you can do it right after it's tacked up or with an hour or a couple hours after it's tacked up maybe even a day or two after after that process or excuse me after that length of time there's been enough of the curing process that's happened where it's going to be less effective and you're going to have to bust out that that wet sandpaper but the goal of this is that you're able to fix these things immediately and not have to wait that long yep so let's go ahead we got we got a bunch of spits up here some larger spits right here we got a big fat run right here we messed around with it right there you can see on some overspray right here how it'll wipe out some overspray so i'm gonna just video john with the video camera right here and we got a video camera going right there on john let's start with uh this guy right up there right here we go i'm just gonna take that swab and work it around a little bit and get that solution on there and it's gonna start melting down that acrylic we just wanna we can work it around a little bit and we can see the white color kind of starting to come through on some of those work around just all over those ridges there and the beauty of this is you don't have those raised profiles like you're going to have if you were wet sanding and it's not curling up like it would if it were wet sanding that right there is getting pretty darn smooth you can use another swab just to clean it up that right there if that were the only spit right there i would be happy coating over the top of that and it's going to look pretty darn good so that's amazing so i got so that was a that was a really really large spit right there i created by taking the actual tip out of uh graco handheld sprayed it it throws some massive spits on there typically we're not gonna be dealing with spits that big on a door um you're not gonna have to do so much rubbing and wiping but right there i mean i can't even feel any ridges on that at all yeah so do you think if you sprayed that right there you're probably not going to see that no not at all in fact last week we had a door we were messing around with some new tips from a tip manufacturer and one of them just left this big old spit right in the middle of this smooth panel door so stop dried we went grabbed a true swipe pulled it off masked off just that panel and sprayed it with a handheld sprayer and i think it took longer to set up and clean up that handheld sprayer than it did to actually melt down that one run and make the thing look like it had never happened so now we're going to take these wipes and they come in little like i don't know wet wipe things and where we've got some of these imperfections here you can even take that white and work it almost like it was sandpaper to help smooth out some of those imperfections and again the beauty of this is that this was only sprayed an hour or less ago and we've completely smoothed out some of those imperfections it's ready to respray and it's just the amount of time it saves is absolutely amazing i'm going to show you right here in the edge of the over spray have john just take one of the wipes and just you'll see how fast it'll cut through just the over spray itself so you can see how fast that white so now we got these john there's some of these spits are really really large and we do have this scraper we've talked about this linbite scraper and it's a carbide scrape scraper extremely extremely sharp and we've used this in in combination with the two swipes to get rid of runs and uh you know um say a drip or a run like that that's extremely large won't we just scrape that down with this and then use the true swipe we can and it's amazing because when i first saw these things i didn't think it would actually work but on fine tram interior trim you actually you'll you'll just pull on the scraper and it'll just start shaving the tops of those bumps and runs down so we got the this is a really fresh door it's only been done about an hour ago you probably if you're using the scraper you'd probably want to wait a little bit longer so it gets a little bit harder but we're going to test it out right here live on camera and see if it'll work on this um these large runs right here so let's check that out john this guy right here [Music] see it's it's gonna pull that guy up and now we'll take a swab and melt it down so basically you kind of just scraped off the bulk of it so you don't have to do as much rubbing yeah the swab and it's not ideal you'll still have to you know you got to work it around to start feathering that down so that it's smooth because you've kind of created a crater because of how deep it is you know to me if this door you know if it was outside had hardened up maybe another two three hours that scraper probably would have shaved it a little bit more than pulling it off but sometimes you're on a time limit and that's not going to be the case so clean it up here and it looks pretty good look pretty good right here when it's all done yeah that's pretty good right there so that's feeling pretty good i mean you can barely feel anything i think when you spray that door you're not even gonna see that run and that was a pretty big run i think this lin bite scraper where i've noticed where it's really really effective is on interior trim paint where interior trim paint is a little bit harder after a few hours hours once it's dried it's just a little bit harder and it's not as rubbery as an exterior coating this was an exterior coating that we sprayed on there and i just sprayed a dark color so it's a really deep ultra deep base so it's kind of really soft and everything but it wasn't the ideal scenario but we wanted to it to be dark so you can see the contrast and hopefully you can see how um it goes about eliminate the runs but the amount of time we just saved there from not having to stop wait long enough that we can wet sand it bondo it that's got to dry you sand the bondo you might have to do another layer of bondo and then you got to wait for that to dry and sand that and then prime and then re-coat it i mean all of those steps or you can bust out one of these you can you can go through you can melt it down and you're just ready and set to re-spray there's a the reason we carry it in the store is because we carry those kind of tools that we feel like are game changers and to me this is a game changer for fixing these drips and runs absolutely and i think one of the key elements to these things too is the wet sanding process somebody that's new at it they're going to hit the learning curve they're going to take a lot longer to be able to do it do it properly do it effectively and come out with good results where these these two swipes man you can a guy you can teach the guy how to do it right here within a few minutes and they should be able to eliminate runs fast and easy and have great results there you have it it's the product trueswipe we love it we believe in it you can purchase it on our store the idahopainter.com where we sell tools and accessories accessories that we think are game changers and that we love hope you enjoyed the video if you have please consider giving us a thumbs up subscribe to our channel and i don't know how we gonna close this one out john just a good old out out [Music] [Applause] foreign