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Originally Posted by Hemi Killer
my spray booth is next to a window and its 105+ out today. Ill save the Zero stuff untill winter.
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Waiting until the weather cools may help some, but properly thinning is what the clearcoat really needs. If it's spiderwebbing, it is probably thick enough that it is not flowing well as you paint it (spiderwebbing is essentially a similar phenomenon as orangepeel- it causes and solutions are the same).
Prethinned doesn't necessarily mean that the paint is ready to be sprayed. If you buy automotive clearcoat from a paint supplier, what you find in the can is a gooey ooze similar in consistency to thin honey. It must be thinned to be sprayed in any spray equipment- automotive or hobby. When I bottle the stuff, I fill a jar with it a quarter of the way and then fill the rest of the volume with thinner- so I start with 3/1 thinner/clear. Then when I spray it, I nearly always add a good bit more thinner (how much depends on weather and other conditions). Getting clearcoat sufficiently thinned is critical to getting it to perform well.
Like Bob I haven't used Zero, so I can't really say what thinner to use with it. For the paints that I use, I buy gallon cans of PPG DTL-105 thinner. A can lasts me several years.