Re: How to handle Runs in clearcoat ?
[Re: JDMopar]
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09/24/19 10:11 PM
09/24/19 10:11 PM
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PAULS_340
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Motown, Mi
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This is an old post but, NOTE TO SELF: After your painter (close friend) feels more is better with the clear......it's going to run. So you stand back when he says " I can fix it" "you probably didn't prep it good enough" so he lays on a second coat, heavier, seven minutes after the first coat, remember, he's the specialist, and then he lays a thicker third coat on to try and cover up what he F-ed up. Just because your pissed-off, don't wait four days to wet sand the runs off....it will be too effing hard! Keep in mind, the is the engine bay of a '71 Demon; there's only two flat spots. So don't kool off and call DUSTLESS BLASTING, REPEAT AFTER ME, DO NOT CALL DUSTLESS BLASTING if you have an assembled car. All I did was pull the motor and everything else in the engine bay. DUSTLESS BLASTING gets into EVERY nook and cranny, EVERY ONE. Every firewall hole was double and triple taped with red duct tape and foil tape. That puke they spray gets in every door mechanism, every depression in the frame, every A-frame member, all the brakes, EVERYWHERE. And when it dries, compressed air doesn't get it off. I took a toothbrush with air to the entire frame! All this because I didn't prep it right. $400 in paint and clear because "I" didn't prep it right.
Still looking for LM29H1B415501, '71 Demon 340
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Re: How to handle Runs in clearcoat ?
[Re: Johnsnow Kornar]
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09/24/19 11:26 PM
09/24/19 11:26 PM
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Pacnorthcuda
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So I painted the main part of my Dart yesterday, the roof, quarters, etc. I was doing great, but ended up with a couple Runs in my final automotive Clear Coats of clear. Should I run out to the bodyshop supply store today and buy one of those nib cutter things and try to shave off the runs while they are still soft ? Or just wait till the paint totally hard and use a small block and some 400 wet paper. I'll be colorsanding and buffing the whole thing anyway so not worried about the runs but just wondering whats the best way to handle them. There are numerous factors. It could have been the means by which the paint was blended, what number of coats were applied, how the vehicle was painted (method), what number of coats and sort of clear coat, even the shade of the preliminary can make little contrasts. I painted the hood of my yellow charger off the vehicle and applied all the more clear on it than the remainder of the vehicle and in some lighting conditions, you can see a slight contrast in the shading just from the thicker covering of clear. Hey! Newbie!!!! Do you realize you just responded to thread that’s SEVEN YEARS OLD??? Pay attention! Good Lord.
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Re: How to handle Runs in clearcoat ?
[Re: Salvador Johnson]
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11/02/19 09:07 PM
11/02/19 09:07 PM
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jcc
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If you can't dazzle em with diamonds..
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I have had runs before in non critical areas, and i have resorted to just quickly taking typical absorbent style household paper towel, and before the paint sets/flashes, dip a corner in the run and surprisingly suck up a lot of paint i would have to sand out later, almost to the point no sanding is needed it you are willing to accept a "heavy' spot in the paint.
Reality check, that half the population is smarter then 50% of the people and it's a constantly contested fact.
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Re: How to handle Runs in clearcoat ?
[Re: Liam]
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04/07/20 10:16 AM
04/07/20 10:16 AM
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GomangoCuda
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Best thing I learned about paint is take it to a really really really good painter and then don't go look at it until he says it's done.
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is.
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