Dial in Your Bulldog Mix

Work out how much adhesion promoter the job takes and how to split the mix before you load the cup.

How Much Do I Need

Enter the area you are spraying and how many coats the job calls for. The guides call for two to three light coats with three to five minutes of flash between them.

Area to coat

sq ft

Rough panel area is fine. A bumper cover or a fender is a small number; a full vehicle is a large one.

Coats

coats

Coverage per quart

sq ft

An assumption, not a published rate. The original coverage figure was not recoverable, so set this to whatever your own experience or the product label tells you.

Bulldog in the mix

%

100 percent for a clear spray out, or 90 percent Bulldog with 10 percent basecoat for visible color coverage.

Estimate

Ready to spray: 19.2 fl oz
Bulldog: 17.3 fl oz
Basecoat: 1.9 fl oz
Quarts to buy: 1 qt

An estimate for planning. Actual usage depends on your gun, your technique, the substrate, and conditions in the booth.

Bulldog as a Flex Agent

The how-to guides add Bulldog to the coating itself as a flex agent, at one part Bulldog to four parts basecoat and one part Bulldog to three parts clear. Enter how much coating you are mixing.

Basecoat volume

fl oz

Clear coat volume

fl oz

Add This Much Bulldog

Into basecoat (1:4): 8 fl oz
Into clear (1:3): 10.7 fl oz

Follow the coating manufacturer's instructions for the basecoat and clear you are spraying. Where they disagree with this, they win.

About These Numbers

The mix and flex agent ratios come from the Klean-Strip Auto how-to guides. The coverage rate is a starting assumption you can change, not a published product specification, because no official coverage figure was available for this rebuild. Treat every result as an estimate for planning and follow the product label, the safety data sheet, and the coating manufacturer's instructions on the job.

See the Full Sequence Shop Bulldog

The Line