Eldon Bennett
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[quote]What are the key factors for getting clear to peel?[/quote]
[color=#ff0000]Have me paint it![/color]
Sorry, could not resist.
Happy New Year.
EB:nothingtoad
[quote]No need to use the green paper. Plastic right up to the panels [/quote]
I wish I had done this. I used green paper when spraying a flow coat on everything except the hood and it soaked through and now I have to fix that!!
Thanks for all the help!
I sanded it all and re-coated it with a flow coat and it laid down great. :dnc
I did get some little dust particles in the finish and was wondering if I can just buff it without color sanding. The finish has almost no texture to it and it looks like I could just polish out the dust particles.
EBBoy! , I think I am starting think like my wife and can’t make up my mind. I cleared just the hood, deck lid and spoiler where I had wet sanded it to put stripes on. I taped the rest of the car off to keep over spray off of it.
Well wouldn’t you know it, armed with my new knowledge for gun setting and the fact that I sanded those areas real smooth, it came out perfect.
No orange peel and only a few little dust particles.
Now I am torn with if I want to wet sand the rest of the car and do the same thing to it. I was able to sand the orange peel out of the one fender I did so far but it would need to be buffed back to a shine.
If the rest of the car looked like what the hood and deck lid looks like now I would not need to cut and buff?????:stoned Maybe it is just the fumes talking right now! :stoned
What do ya think?
I have a new sort of add on question. After I sanded the hood and deck lid I laid out the stripes and painted them on today. Tomorrow morning I will re-clear the hood, deck lid and spoiler. When I pulled the thin tape off that I used to lay out the stripes, in one 6″ long area the tape left some sticky residue from the tape.
So my question is can I just use wax and grease remover and clean that of without hurting the base coat as the base coat stripes have no clear on them yet.Also I continued to sand a little more with 1000 and then 2000 on the orig. clear coat and it is coming out fine with out having to re-coat the whole car again.
Thanks to everyone on this.
EBOkay, I will give just a little background. I was in the USAF during Vietnam and was in corrosion control which means I painted things. I painted jets, jeeps and heavy equipment. I painted hundreds of things during my 6 years in the service. I say this just to let you know that I know what orange peel is and what fish eye is. This is orange peel.
I called SPI today and they told me I had the gun PSI too low. This means I did not lay down as much clear as I thought I did. So what I am going to do is scuff it up and put two more coat of clear on it. One of those being a flow coat.
In the USAF we did not worry about orange peel or color sanding, we just did camouflaged and get it ready to fly. Not a lot of block sanding.
So now my question is what grit sandpaper should I use to scuff the surface before re-coating.
Thanks for your feed back.
EBThanks to everyone on this. I painted her today and it went perfect. The gun worked perfect.
I would like to post a picture. What is the best or should I say easiest way to post pictures on this site. I took pictures through the complete process.EB
I tested it today and it works perfect. Thanks for all the help.
EBThanks to everyone for the feedback.
I found that the packing nut was loose and the air cap hole where a little clogged.
I tightened the fluid tip and have not used it yet. I will test it on Friday. The big day is Saturday. The jambs are all painted and ready for final paint.
Thanks
EBI have already sanded it with 400 now and I have found a few bad areas and will fix them today. I did use a guide coat also.
What color sealer would be best under silver? The primer I used was SPI regular 2K buff. It went on great and sanded easy. But I don’t think yellow or buff is the color to go with under silver.I called the paint store and talked to them about it and after telling them what the label said and what my receipt said, they determined that the label on the can was wrong and what they mixed up was UIC or Ultra Interior Color w/ vinyl option.
So that is what I have (I hope) and they faxed me a new TDS to go with what they say is in the can. They also said no primer is needed.[quote]what kind of plastic is it? [/quote]
To answer your question, I don’t know. It is what ever they made plastic parts in the 60s out of.
I am also using this same paint on the metal parts in the interior. They told me it can be used for both.Thanks
EBThanks to all of you.
I am going to paint a door that is going to the dump for practice. I think I can do this. I have never done anything other than what you said, a tack cloth. I was asking because I read on here that some have done that. It seems like that would show up really bad when the clear goes on.My last paint job several years ago I used DBC 2000 PPG BC/CC and it came out perfect but I have read on here that PPG is crap compared to many of the brands they used so that is why I have been asking and searching.
Thanks A.again to everyone, now back out to finish my paint booth.
EB
Badson23,
Thank you for your input. I do get your point. I think I will buy a small amount and paint an extra door I have. That will answer whether I got what it takes.
EBThanks for the info,
I will look into DuPont paint here.
Do you stick with the dupont clear. If not what clear do you use.
Do you do a drop coat? If so do you color sand, lightly after the last coat?
EB
billgaino,
How about I just bring my Firebird over to your house, Wow! nice booth. That is a little more up=scale than I will be building for my paint booth.
EBI guess a little background would have helped in this thread. I have done bodywork and painting since I was 18 years old, as a hobby, and while in the service painted everything from a sedan to an F4 Phantom jet. I have years of gun time. I am now 59 years old and paint only as part of my hobby, so I am not a novice.
My post was only trying to find a silver that might be more forgiving than others. I am sure I can figure out my way through it but I was hoping that someone had already gone down the road I am at and could help me past some of the bumps.
That being said, Thanks for your help.