Poly primer + 1.3 – what a joke!
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I was doing a fairly complex ‘after hours’ filler job today, so decided to give it couple of coats of poly primer to make sure I could get all the compound curves and sharp body lines spot on. Trouble is, I was working out of the back of my car and hadn’t brought a large enough tip along with me. All I had was a 1.3!
Needless to say it took forever to get anything on, and at one point I was looking around for a bit to drill the tip out some more :whistle:
I’ll go back in the morning and hit it with some paper and see what happens. Bet’s on me rubbing straight through it? :lol1
2.0 – 2.5
Of course 🙂
I normally get by with a 1.8, but as I say, I hadn’t brought it with me.
It’ll bridge quite bad if you spray too dry :whistle: might need to sand it right off :unsure:
If you had thinner, you could have over reduced it and applied several lighter coats from your gun (allowing necessary flash times between coats).
[b]Ben wrote:[/b]
[quote]If you had thinner, you could have over reduced it and applied several lighter coats from your gun (allowing necessary flash times between coats).[/quote]yup :unsure:
[b]Stone wrote:[/b]
[quote]It’ll bridge quite bad if you spray too dry :whistle: might need to sand it right off :unsure:[/quote]Yes, it wasn’t one of my better ideas :blush:
I’ll probably end up sanding most of it off this morning and trying something else. It’ll certainly teach me to take all of my kit along to these kind of jobs in the future!
You supposed to pull the metal first anyway, not just spray some filler on it 😛 :rofl :rofl
tough luck Andy, I hate when I get in situations like that, I bet you won’t forget that nozzle next time!
could have rolled it on ans smoothed it with a bondo spreader :whistle:
[quote]could have rolled it on ans smoothed it with a bondo spreader[/quote]
Hm…
[b]ding wrote:[/b]
[quote]could have rolled it on ans smoothed it with a bondo spreader :whistle:[/quote]
I did consider getting a 2″ paintbrush out! :blink:Thankfully all was well when I got to it this morning. I knocked the tops off with some 180, then blocked it with 320, and all seemed fine. Just to be sure I gave it a light sealing coat with some ‘poxy before base (I’ve run out of 2K high-build primer, which is what caused the problem in the first place).
A bit of extra fast activator in the clear and 15 minutes with the infra reds and she was ready for buffing, with no sinkage at all.
The stuff I do at the weekend is very quick ‘n’ dirty, but it brings in a bit of extra beer money :cheers
mmmmmmmm beer :cheers
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