"InfinityAero" (infinityaero)
06/19/2016 at 21:25 • Filed to: None | 5 | 8 |
The lines should come out better after a high-numbered grit wetsand, wash, and wax. I’ll wait a month to let the paint breath and cure. Gonna borrow a pancake and use a touchup gun to paint the messed up pieces after I strip the modern art off it.
aberson Bresident of the FullyAssed Committe
> InfinityAero
06/19/2016 at 21:30 | 1 |
not bad
Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> InfinityAero
06/19/2016 at 21:55 | 1 |
What did you paint with?
InfinityAero
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
06/20/2016 at 01:17 | 1 |
Harbor freight auto spray gun setup, home depot 14cfm compressor, tcp factory repro paint.
Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> InfinityAero
06/20/2016 at 10:05 | 0 |
Are you gonna clear it or leave it semigloss?
InfinityAero
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
06/20/2016 at 11:00 | 1 |
We were hoping to apply the clearcoat that day, but the color coat required at least 4 hours of cure time prior to adding it, and that would have put us at 9PM.
I’ve been looking into the surface preparation prior to clear application— at this point it looks like I’ll have to wet-sand the whole thing with 800 grit before applying the clear coat. If I wanted to just stick with the color coat and skip the clear, I can sand it down with a 1500-2000 grit and wax it afterwards. I’d have to wait at least 30 days before buffing, as apparently the paint needs to breath while it does that first month’s worth of curing, and polish seals the pores.
Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> InfinityAero
06/20/2016 at 12:12 | 0 |
Good luck. I rattlecanned some Rustoleum onto my Civic after it was wrecked and ended up with some striping like you have. Tried sanding with 1000 and 2000 grit but it ended up changing the color of the paint and didn’t really get rid of the striping. I probably should have used something more like 500 or 600 first, but oh well. I’ll experiment with it again when I get a new hood for the Sentra.
InfinityAero
> Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
06/20/2016 at 12:36 | 0 |
Thanks! It turned out extremely well, but not quite perfect. Mostly it’s got some paint flecks on the surface, and a couple of spots with some orange peel, but that’s pretty minimal.
This is my first large-scale paint job with a spray gun. I used the factory original color, but it’s clearly slightly darker than the original paint in the interior. I’m guessing that the color will match perfectly after sanding the surface perfectly smooth. Honestly, that’s been the biggest source of confusion for me— how to smooth the surface without impacting the coloration, or just how much sanding does change the coloration.
The original goal was to spray the clear on the same day— my cousin said it tends to fill the gaps that make up the slight texture. I think at this point I’ll sand the whole thing down with an 800 grit and layer the clear coat over that, followed by a wet-sand of the clearcoat with some 1500 grit, followed with a protective wax layer. Or, I have enough paint that we could spray on another layer of color, wait 4 hours, then add on the 2 coats of clear coat. That might preserve the existing color as it looks... rather than lightening it up a bit by sanding.
Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
> InfinityAero
06/20/2016 at 12:52 | 0 |
I believe the color will lighten up significantly when sanding, but then darken again when you apply clear. Take a look at old 90s GM vehicles with peeling clearcoat and the base coat underneath the shite clear is significantly lighter in tint. Could be the same thing happening here, but I’m very far from being a paint expert.