there is a reason i've been restoring fields for 10 years. Because it's a PIA and not easy to do. Better to have someone that knows what they are doing do it. Clearcoat is some dangerous shit, if you do not know what you are doing. It likes to stick to anything wet. Lung walls, eyeballs, shit like that. When I first started restoring. I thought I could get away with just using paint respirators. NOT. Passed out in the shower after about 3 months of clearcoating.

For those that want to do their own touchups. I do clearcoating and leveling for flat $350. But you must scuff your entire field before touching up with a choreboy type pad, and only use water based acrylics. Anything remotely oil based will make the clear fisheye like crazy.

As for diamond plate being varathane, i've never heard that. You can tell it's not, because of the cloudiness of B/W inserts. That cloudy effect comes from the shitty technology clearcoat they had available at the time. Clear wasn't really clear. Now it is. Hence why you can see all the jeweling in Stern fields and couldn't in B/W fields.