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Dave what did you thin with? My plan is to shot all the hard to reach area's with a hvlp gun and roll the rest, depends on how well the sprayed area's come out.

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Thinned with good old mineral spirits, and I measured the dosage, it was about 8-10%. Still a pretty thick mixture, and it took 5 seconds to go from a stream to a drip.

That sounds like a great plan you have, for spraying small areas it's bearable. Like I said with the right spray and breathing setup it would be OK but in my opinion it's not worth all that work when you could just roll.

Here are some pics. There's a lot of orange peel in this paint job also, so I will becoming friends with my sanding block again.

Here's the area I fixed up before repaint..
BEFORE...


Which was almost completely covered by the single sprayed coat.
AFTER...


some other after pics. by the way I didn't paint the hood since I'm not planning to use it but it's already a uniform canvas white.

Some orange peel


and some orange peel combined with not laying down enough material




A single roll coat should take care of it now, after a few hours with a spray bottle and 800 grit.

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why hasn't anyone tried to roll on single stage auto paint? It shouldn't be any differnt, yes more expensive..but you get the mettallic look and b5 blue im sure.

Steve

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More expensive? $39. a gallon.

http://stores.ebay.com/Auto-Paint_acrylic-enamel-auto-paint_W0QQcolZ2QQdirZ1QQfsubZ2QQftidZ2QQtZkm

or $65. for a kit.

http://stores.ebay.com/Auto-Paint_acryli...9QQftidZ2QQtZkm

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why hasn't anyone tried to roll on single stage auto paint? It shouldn't be any differnt, yes more expensive..but you get the mettallic look and b5 blue im sure.

Steve

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All my tremclad cars and the 1st one very soon to be tremclad'd white with a black roof with blue pearl. The red/black one i added 15g of red pearl into the base then sprayed tremclad clear..looks amazing when the sun hits it..the clear is rather hard to spray(i used a spray gun vs roller so i could use pearl) and you cant use mineral spirits with the clearcoat. The Black car i used flake..depending how you look at it it could appear like yellow flake green or blue...its a beater/joke car.

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TY for your detailed post Admactanium. It motivated me to go out and purchase one of the Random Orbital Polishers. After a few hours with Harbor Freight Orbital Sander/Polisher, I am starting to see the gloss come out of the haze. I suspect, even with Turtle Wax products mind you, with a proper Polisher, and proper attachments/bonnets, I will get satisfactory results in less time. THANKS again all posters that have developed techniques that idiots like myself can follow.

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post some pics of the results. i think you could get good results using turtle wax. but if you have a pep boys nearby you could pick up some meguiars or 3m polishes that are really good. i've seen both of those lines pretty extensively at my local pep boys.

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Is there a page were everything needed to get started and basic instructions are listed? 40 Pages is a lot of reading to get caught up on this process... Can someone give a quick lesson from the beginning or refer me to a page where this is (Supplies, mixing ratio, application)?

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