Is there a way to “resume” in the classroom? Other online education platforms I have used have a resume feature that takes you right to where you left off. I haven’t found a way to do that in Skool and it is tedious having to navigate to the last video when resuming the training.

I just watched the video less on preparation and see that you recommend solvent cleaner before water based cleaner (alcohol, etc.). Most other places I have watched recommend the opposite order, water based cleaner first and then solvent based cleaner right before spraying. I am fighting fish eyes and have always wiped with alcohol last, but that also with water borne paints. I am now spraying Axalta solvent base paint and am wondering if that might be more compatible with a solvent being the last thing on the panel. I am going to try another test panel and reverse my order and see if that helps. I am pretty sure the contamination is on the panel and not in the air system, but I am trying to rule out everything as best I can and got to wondering if the order of cleaning might be different for a solvent base paint rather than a water based single stage paint.

Hello everyone! I'm pretty surprised how much positive response I've gotten to the content I've made thus far (and there's lots more to come) but I wanted to take a moment and pause to think about the most efficient way to get the knowledge across that I've put together. Because there's a lot! So I figured a poll was the best way to figure out maybe a potential restructure of the course content to make it as meaningful to everyone as possible. What are you here to learn? I'd appreciate any feedback as I continue to improve everything! Thanks - Aaron

Last week I sprayed a bunch of stuff that came off the gun looking absolutely perfect. The kind of finish that makes you stand there for a minute just staring at it. So I walked out for about 30 minutes. Came back, opened the door, looked at my panels and my stomach dropped. Fish eyes. Everywhere. All over the hood, all over everything I had just sprayed. Bad ones too, not little baby ones you can hide under a buff. If you've ever had this happen you know the feeling. Total dumpster fire. Kind of like Kevin dropping the pot of chili at the office Christmas party. That's exactly how I felt walking through that door. What I think actually happened: I'd been running a space heater near the booth to keep things warm. My best guess is somebody sprayed WD40 near it at some point, or got some on it. As the heater warmed up over the session, those silicones cooked off and drifted onto my wet clear. Fish eye city. I was running Wanda 2100 LV that day. Good clear, but it didn't stand a chance against silicone contamination floating in the air. Most guys would panic here and start sanding everything back to base. Don't do that. There's a way better route and it's called flow coating. The basic idea: let the contaminated clear fully cure, block sand it dead flat, then lay fresh clear over a perfectly flat foundation. The new clear self levels into a glass finish and you skip the cut and buff entirely. Let everything cure for two to three days. The hood was the worst panel so I started there to get the hardest one out of the way first. First pass was 600 grit. I needed the coarser paper because the clear was still a touch soft and 800 was giving me painted pigtails, those annoying little curly cues you get when sandpaper grabs soft clear. 600 cut through clean. Wiped it down with a microfiber. Degreased. Then I went back over the whole panel with 800 grit and got it sanded out properly. Looked like a matte mess at that point, which is exactly what you want. If you can still see gloss anywhere, you're not flat yet.

I’m so excited that I came across Aaron’s excellent content on YouTube and found this group! I’ve been a DIY person on steroids my entire life. I’ve only painted one car before, and that was back in the early ’90s. Most recently, I built a kitchen for my wife and painted the doors with 2K furniture paint. My friends think the finish looks better than that of many store-bought painted kitchen cabinets. I think that success planted the seed that I could eventually paint my two project Land Rover Defenders, which I recently picked up in Italy and drove back to Finland. Of course, I’m now going completely overboard with my plans and have decided to build a paint booth. Just this morning, I purchased the fans, an oil-fired heating unit, and an Italian-made filter ceiling from a decommissioned paint booth for €1,800. It’s all destined for the paint booth I plan to build in my warehouse. Right now, it’s a big pile of dirty “junk,” but everything was reportedly working when it was removed from the building. I’ll be picking it up next month with a van and trailer. They are located about 400 kilometers away. So, instead of starting work on the Defenders, I think next winter is going to be spent building my paint booth! I’m looking forward to being part of this group! And a big thank-you to Aaron for all the hard work he puts into his videos and this community!