SKYscapes Shimmer Coat SMART Repair

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  SW-Aerospace-Smart-Repair-Video-Series-SKYscapes-Shimmer-Coat-850-Series-English-video-en_US.mp4 GFX: Sherwin-Williams Aerospace Coatings [00:00:12] Hi, guys. My name is Richard Giles, Sherwin-Williams Aerospace Technical Service and training manager. I'm here at our training facility in Andover, Kansas. In this video clip we're going to be talking about the new shimmer coat. It's a mica effect coating. It's a neutral, which means it can go on top of any color. And it's designed to turn a solid color or a library of colors into an effective coat. There is a repair process to this. It takes actually three stages. And as you can see behind me, we have a panel which has been prepared in the conventional way, which is a P320/P400 cleaned with 110158 dried and tacked. So we're all set there. The process will simply be that we have the ground coat color in one container. In this case, black. We have the shimmer coat in the second container, which is the effect coating. And again, it's a neutral effect can go on any color. And then the third one, which is your second stage, will actually be a blend of the two. And the reason we blend the two is the transition from solid to effect. And it's about branching out between the different densities to make sure that we have an invisible repair. So first thing we do, we make the shimmer and the black itself. Mixing ratios. Again, very important. The black in this case under shimmer is the 850 black. It's our commercial base coat material. It's mixed of four to one to three. No special mixing or blending, no special solvents. The shimmer is mixed at five to one to three. It has a common hardener and it has a common activated reducer. So we have 4, 1, 3. And we have 5, 1, 3. The blend, which we typically use will be 20 percent of the color at hand. In this case, black, an 80 percent of the shimmer coat blended together. Now these will be ready to spray materials. So there'll be two ready to spray and we'll simply blend together using the ratio graph on the small cup. The black goes on first, then the transition coating, which will give you a slight density of that effect. And then on top of that, we get the full strength to give you that blended out appearance. So the objective is to produce a repair before the clear where people say, where is it? GFX: Mix A: 4 parts color, 1 part hardener, 3 parts reducer There are two types of shimmer on offer right now. We have a silver, which is what we're using today. The second one is Prismatique, which has around six or seven colors involved. That's extremely bright and vibrant. We're using a silver one, which is equally as popular. But it's really a matter of choice on effect.. we're looking for. In addition to this of course, like any base coat, it can be repeated back to ground coat color if you're not happy with it called the transition coat or a shimmer. Indeed, the shimmer. So any of these stages can be repeated at any time. It's a simple repair that requires color coating immediately. We would say leave this approximately one hour at room temperature, if it's cold of course you leave it longer, but we would say one hour would be the minimum and clear coat is normal to a scene or to a clear coat. Apply the black to get you opacity, which is your first layer. Once it's flashed off for a few minutes, we put the translucent black shimmer on top of that expanding outwards, so we actually will not only cover the repair itself, but we'll go beyond repair once that's flashed off. Then we go beyond the whole repair into the virgin paint with the 100 percent shimmer and that will get you a grading of density. We use a sun gun to make sure that the repair is as dense with the surrounding area and it once cleared, it becomes invisible to the eye. Now that all of the repairs are clear coated, you can see that the color transition profile and the repair itself is totally invisible to the eye at all light conditions in all angles. The definition of a repair is where is it? If we can achieve an invisible aesthetic repair that isn't noticeable to the inspector or customer in all light conditions, we consider that successful. Follow us on our YouTube channel, Sherwin-Williams Aerospace for all future smart repairs. GFX: Sherwin-Williams Aerospace Coatings Swaerospace.com

Watch and learn the best practices using Sherwin-Williams Aerospace coatings. Our expert, Richard Giles demonstrates simple mixing and spraying techniques to repair a SKYscapes® Shimmer Basecoat as part of the Sherwin-Williams Aerospace 850 Series product line.