BCC Students Spraying A Tri-Coat Paint Job

Here is a video of Butler students spraying a tri coat paint job.

Butler students deonstrate how to paint a three stage paint job. This is the base coat, mid coat and the clear coat. The mid-coat on this paint job is a tinted clear. This allows you to be able to see through the tinted clear and see the base caot color. This adds depth to the paint job. If you remember the candy colors, this is the same concept.

After the Mustang was repaired, snaded and prepped for painting, the following steps were taken.

1. Pulled in the paint booth and masked off.

2.Wiped down with wax and grease remover.

3.Tacked off with a tack rag.

4.Primer sealer sprayed on the entire car.

5.Sprayed black where needed for stripes.

6.Masked black off.

7.Sprayed one light coat on the over masked off black areas. This is the remaining black paint that was not masked off. This will help achieve hiding.

8.Spray 2 medium wet coats base coat - this is the color

9.Spray 2 medium wet coats mid-coat - this is the tinted clear

10.Unmasked stripes and areas that are black

11.Spray 1 tack coat of clear coat - this is a thin coat of clear to allow the full wet coat of clear to stick without running. This step is not required, but works well when custom painting. Eliminates clear from running on paint stripe edges.

12. Spray 2 full wet coats of clear coat.

Now ready to unmask and put back together. All of the part were painted separately off of the car. Bumper cover, rocker moldings, etc.

They did a great job on the car. Sorry for the poor video quality....that is my bad! I’ve learned to stay very still if I am going to speed the video up.

Paint code is E9 - The code will give you the base coat and mid-coat formulas

We used PPGs Sealer, Paints and with PPG 2021 Clear Coat

Butler Student Helps Educate The Collsion Industry At Vision

Zan, a Butler Students, Role-Playing With Kristen Felder of Collision Hub Demonstrating How To Use Social Networking In The Collision Repair Industry

Three students, Zan, Patrick, and Brandyn, and the instructor of the collision repair program at Butler Community College attended the Collision Day training at Vision 2010 in Overland Park. The training was excellent and the students expressed that they were impressed and learned a lot while attending the training event.

Vision is an ASA training event held every year. This is only the second year that they have included the collision repair industry, but with the quality of training provided, I believe that it will grow as the automotive training has grown over the years.

If you did not attend the training this year, you missed out. We learned what it take to make money in this industry and how to promote your businesses.

Mike Anderson
Mike taught two classes. The first class was a three hour class on estimating. As I mentioned, we had students and instructors from several schools, shop owners, insurance adjusters, and vendors attend the class and I overheard all of them expressing the value and what they absorbed in the classes. Mike also taught another three hour class on marketing your business. Again, this was a very informational class, which was packed with value for everyone in the room. You can learn more about Mike at WagonWork.com

Kristen Felder
Kristen with Collision Hub taught a class on social networking. She presented us with alarming facts about the importance of getting your business exposure with social networking. Kristen also presented a few tools available of how to do it. If you are not currently using tools like Facebook and Twitter to promote your business, you may find your customers going to someone who does. Kristen mentioned that the Collision Hub searches Twitter and helps people inquiring about having their vehicle repaired and helps them by recommending repair shops that are a member of the Collision Hub. The Collision Hub is free to join and it may result in free leads for your business. You can join this network by visiting CollisionHub.com

Vision also had the insurance commissioners from both Kansas and Missouri speak and inform us how each state works and the steps to take if you feel an insurance company violated the rights of your customer or your repair shop.

Vision is held every March in Overland Park and I highly recommend it to the entire collision repair and related industries. It will definitely be worth your time and you will leave the training with more knowledge than you came to the training with. I had the opportunity to network with several different instructors in Kansas and Missouri and hope to see more of them next year.

Butler Community College Collision Repair Program Interviewed by Parts and People

Matthew Sevart with Part and People contacted me recently and set up a time to have an interview in regards to the Collision Repair program offered at Butler. Matthew traveled to our facility and spoke with several students and the instructor about the program.

To read the full article visit Parts and People.

I would like to thank Matthew and Parts and People for taking the time to include us in their publication and for helping us educate other people about our program at Butler Community College.