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Re: How to handle Runs in clearcoat ? [Re: JDMopar] #2700615
09/24/19 10:11 PM
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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
Re: How to handle Runs in clearcoat ? [Re: PAULS_340] #2700617
09/24/19 10:20 PM
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YouTube video by the Gunman shows using a spot putty over the run and then sanding the whole area down until the spot putty is gone. It protects the rest of the clear around the outside from being touched until the whole thing is flat. Looks way better than the razor blade technique.

Re: How to handle Runs in clearcoat ? [Re: Johnsnow Kornar] #2700633
09/24/19 11:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Johnsnow Kornar
Originally Posted by MileHighDart
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.

Re: How to handle Runs in clearcoat ? [Re: JDMopar] #2700635
09/24/19 11:28 PM
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Originally Posted by JDMopar
Originally Posted by HUSTLESTUFF
My suggestion probably wont work seeing you asked in 2012


Hey! It's almost dry....so he should be able to sand it any day now....lol. shruggy laugh2


I think you were the only one to get it. And that IS funny...well played.

Re: How to handle Runs in clearcoat ? [Re: Pacnorthcuda] #2701106
09/26/19 12:00 PM
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Just a 7 year update for ya'll.

I waited till it was dry, and used the razorblade method. Shaved it off little by little till it was gone. Wet sanded and buffed, and looks great.

Re: How to handle Runs in clearcoat ? [Re: MileHighDart] #2701110
09/26/19 12:11 PM
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my one painter buddy always said : "there is no cost for the extra protection" . biggrin
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Re: How to handle Runs in clearcoat ? [Re: moparx] #2712140
11/02/19 04:17 PM
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I have used Speedokote SMR for this. It works fine for me. BTW, I have written content on Best Rubbing Compound for Car Scratches. You may read this information.

Re: How to handle Runs in clearcoat ? [Re: Salvador Johnson] #2712227
11/02/19 09:07 PM
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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.
Re: How to handle Runs in clearcoat ? [Re: jcc] #2717544
11/19/19 02:25 PM
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Learn some new things. Thanks

Re: How to handle Runs in clearcoat ? [Re: Mopargnome] #2717638
11/19/19 07:09 PM
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Excellant thread. Old or not , this is a good one.

Re: How to handle Runs in clearcoat ? [Re: GMP440] #2760977
04/07/20 02:48 AM
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Great post. learn lots of new information.

Re: How to handle Runs in clearcoat ? [Re: Liam] #2761043
04/07/20 10:16 AM
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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.


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