madmaveric
Well Known Member
Ok what did I do wrong (Painting issues)
Priming was ok, some small fish-eyes at first but then I started using thinner coats.
I decided to try some top coating to see if I was up to the job. After much faffing with test pieces I through I had it sorted (I ran out of testing material at the same time, I should have found more).
So I decided to try the smallest (and cheapest to replace) bit for my first real paint. Everything looked great until the lacquer went on.
So any guesses as to what would cause this (I think I see fish-eyes, solvent pop and orange peel all at the same time).
Process was to buff,clean and tack ragging between each coat with a 10-20 minute flash time.
2 dust coats etch primer,
1 wet coat etc primer,
2 dust coats of base,
1 wet coat of base (for colour coverage),
1 medium coat of base (to make sure the metallic bits were all sticking up and not lying down)
Wait for about 2 hours to flash, longer than I had previously tried on test pieces to avoid the solvent popping.
2 dust coats of clear (looked ok but dry at this point)
1 wet coat of lacquer
At this point it looked liked it does in the pictures.
Did I put too thick a coat on it?
Lacquer was mixed 2:1 with ~10% thinners.
I was hoping for a finish I could buff out any orange peel, I didn't get what I wanted
This is definitely getting redone, but I will only do it myself if I can find out how to fix this.
So any ideas?
Note: I have also posted on an car painting forum in the hope someone might have a simple explanation as short of buying an expensive spray gun I'm not sure what to try next (I'm happy to buy a gun if that turns out to be the problem)
Priming was ok, some small fish-eyes at first but then I started using thinner coats.
I decided to try some top coating to see if I was up to the job. After much faffing with test pieces I through I had it sorted (I ran out of testing material at the same time, I should have found more).
So I decided to try the smallest (and cheapest to replace) bit for my first real paint. Everything looked great until the lacquer went on.
So any guesses as to what would cause this (I think I see fish-eyes, solvent pop and orange peel all at the same time).
Process was to buff,clean and tack ragging between each coat with a 10-20 minute flash time.
2 dust coats etch primer,
1 wet coat etc primer,
2 dust coats of base,
1 wet coat of base (for colour coverage),
1 medium coat of base (to make sure the metallic bits were all sticking up and not lying down)
Wait for about 2 hours to flash, longer than I had previously tried on test pieces to avoid the solvent popping.
2 dust coats of clear (looked ok but dry at this point)
1 wet coat of lacquer
At this point it looked liked it does in the pictures.
Did I put too thick a coat on it?
Lacquer was mixed 2:1 with ~10% thinners.
I was hoping for a finish I could buff out any orange peel, I didn't get what I wanted
This is definitely getting redone, but I will only do it myself if I can find out how to fix this.
So any ideas?
Note: I have also posted on an car painting forum in the hope someone might have a simple explanation as short of buying an expensive spray gun I'm not sure what to try next (I'm happy to buy a gun if that turns out to be the problem)
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