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I scored a pail of undercoating at work because it was leaking. Thought I would use it on the daily drivers. I have a cheapo undercoating gun that I bought at Princess Auto. 

The undercoating seems rather thick...Does it need to be thinned to spray, if so with what?

Any suggestions would be helpful



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I have an old deep fryer, I bought at a garage sale, I pour the oil in there, just to warm it up. It thins it just enough to spray easily, and it spreads better, because it's warm/hot.

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OK..That makes sense......Wifey is gonna be pissed though

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Is it dripless oil spray? I used to thin that with varsol.

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Its NAPA BodyPro brand undercoating...Gooey amber coloured stuff.

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JMO, but i'd try warming it up also.

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Not the same stuff I used to use. Mine was a dripless oil and grease mixture made by a company in brlington.

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Back in Finland they sold two different types of undercoating materials, first one which was meant for spraying was fairly thick stuff (compared to thick primary paint) but still clearly fluid and came out of the undercoating gun just fine and no thinning was needed, the other one was for brushing and really thick and close to body filler thickness.

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This stuff is in between what you described....I am going to heat it and see how it is.

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It doesn't need to be super hot, if it starts to smoke, it's too hot, LOL.

You only need to bring the temperature up a few degrees, to lighten it up.
Considering you only need maybe two ltr. Maybe start by trying to soak a one ltr. container in hot water, see how it thins out.



-- Edited by Gazoo on Thursday 2nd of October 2014 04:11:29 PM

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