Paint depth gauge plus#

Paint depth gauge plus#

Sometimes your eyes can tell you much more than the gauge. The NexPTG Standard Plus is the basic version of the NexPTG paint depth gauge. Do this with the best lighting you can get. When you see really low numbers of total thickness and they are pretty consistent across a panel, you then know that the amount of available clearcoat will most likely be much lower as well, and you have to be more careful.Īnother good tool is to really look at the surface of the paint from several angles with your head down almost right on the painted surfaces to get a good look at the surface closely and see if you can detect any thing that looks not normal. You still have to be careful, but at least you have an idea how much clearcoat might be on the surface and in the case repaints, there will probably be a lot more clearcoat than what the factory put on, and has most likely been rubbed off by other Detailers. The Total Thickness of the Clearcoat is always much much less than the total thickness. Just remember that unless its the most expensive defelsko, these are all just giving you Total Thickness pretty accurately, but not perfectly accurately. Only the most expensive delfesko measures all 3 substrates. The Highline measures both steel and aluminium, and not plastic. The Highline is local as stated above and that perhaps may be a good thing for warranty if needed. So, you then get the idea you may need to be more careful and use less aggressive compounding there. The thinner the total thickness shows, means there is also less paint there too. To at least get a ballpark idea of what is on the panel is always a good thing if you are going to be doing some major correction there. Usually, a good close examination with your eyes can see bodywork and perhaps not as good a matching paintjob on it. The gauges mentioned are probably a good thing to have to at least get a ballpark of how much total thickness is actually there, and can definitely detect where bodywork with fillers was done. The only gauge that measures all the different substrates accurately is the delfesko 200 which is I believe a couple thousand to start.

These gauges mentioned only measure total thickness and not just the total paint thickness.