Term "drop coat" in refernce to painting

[gwalt584]

I was reading the tech sheet on a Martin Senour paint and in the application section it said to put 2-3 medium wet coats plus a drop coat.
Since my upcoming project of painting my project 40 calls for me to paint I am trying to learn the lingo.
So what does it mean by a "drop coat"?

 

[miker]

Believe it means to spray final color coat as a 'mist' coat. Used to even out metallics, pearls, etc, and reduce any tiger stripe look from the coverage coats. Generally, shoot drop coats with gun further away from surface to cover a larger area at once, move gun slower across the panel compared to coverage coats. Don't apply heavy coat with drop coat, you are just trying to 'even' the metallics and color. I think you need to do this right away after the last coverage coat so the lighter drop coat will still flow into the paint and not leave a dry coat look....

I used this technique a couple of times whan spraying metallics and pearls but I'm no expert.

Suggest you contant the paint shop where you bought the paint and ask the same question. They may have experience with this particular paint and can probably give you some good tips.

 

[gwalt584]

Believe it means to spray final color coat as a 'mist' coat. Used to even out metallics, pearls, etc, and reduce any tiger stripe look from the coverage coats. Generally, shoot drop coats with gun further away from surface to cover a larger area at once, move gun slower across the panel compared to coverage coats. Don't apply heavy coat with drop coat, you are just trying to 'even' the metallics and color. I think you need to do this right away after the last coverage coat so the lighter drop coat will still flow into the paint and not leave a dry coat look....

I used this technique a couple of times whan spraying metallics and pearls but I'm no expert.

Suggest you contant the paint shop where you bought the paint and ask the same question. They may have experience with this particular paint and can probably give you some good tips.

Thanks, I will ask the NAPA paint tech the question, but I thought it would be wise to get another opinion.
Gary