Energy Pro250
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Demoed a gallon of Energy Pro. I really like the stuff! It sprays much better than Pro air. It drys fast and looks pretty good. I pushed the envelope with it though, I sprayed a dodge calibur, all but two passenger doors. It was a little too big of a job for it but it didnt turn out too bad. I think we are going to use more of it.
There are nicer clears than energy pro,I’m surprised you like it.I don’t use it for anything more than a panel or a bumper cover.
Im surprised that you don’t like Energy Pro Jayson. I just started using Autowave 6 weeks ago, but this clear is my work-horse, everyday clear. I still haven’t even cracked open the first gallon of Superior they gave me because I am getting such good results with Energy Pro 250 (using a Sata 3000 RP, 1.3 tip, at 30psi). I agree that it is very fast, but using the slow activator, I am painting pretty large jobs with it. I don’t think I would do a complete with it though! :stoned Although, we did spray a Ford Taurus complete with it at the Akzo training center last week, and it came out pretty nice to my surprise. I work on almost nothing but late model European vehicles (flat factory finishes), and I have almost no problem matching the peel. I am curious, what don’t you like about it???
i had a gallon here that was given to me to demo. i really like the stuff as well. like you said though, not for a complete. for most of the stuff i do here its great. buffs pretty easily which is important to me since everything that goes out is sanded and buffed but it also hardens quickly and still flows out nice and looks really good. doesnt quite give the depth and gloss of the superior but overall i like it better. for what i do anyway superior just doesn’t work as well.
If you think energy pro is nice you are in for a surprise when you use superior,there is no comparison.Energy pro you have to work a little bit to make it nice on the bigger jobs.It does not have depth or as nice a gloss as superior,and superior is effortless to spray and it looks fantastic no matter what.The biggest job I used it on was a 06 gmc crew cab that I did the whole side on with slow and that was pushing it.When you use the energy pro hardener I do not like it at all,I found using superior hardener in the energy pro makes it spray better.I use superior on 90% of my jobs.If I was in the states I would use HS plus or lesonal glamour clear over autowave.
We now have a heat and air make up on the booth. I sparayed a door with HS+ and it seemed nice. I used standard hardner and med activator. I wish I could of used the rapid activator wth it instead. It looked nice but was pretty slow to dry even with heat. I think I will like it on the big jobs though. I would also like to try the lesonal glamour. I may see if the boss man wants to get some. Im sure he would like the cost of it compared to HS+. I have spayed nothing but Pro Air for the last 7 months coming from sherwin williams. After spraying the energy Pro I have no desire to use Pro air anymore.
If you use the autocryl rapid hardener that is all you need unless it is over 100F.That is all we used for hardener with the rapid,medium,standard activators.I did plenty of complete resprays that were on the large side with rapid hardener/standard activator,I believe there is an extra slow activator too.If you use rapid hardener,rapid activator it is fast,a touch of extra top and it is faster yet.When we used ABP we used acIII for spot painting and HS plus for the nicer and bigger jobs.Lesonal glamour clear was one of my favorites,2:1:20% and it looked awesome,great for completes.
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