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| pete-stevers |
 Feb 10 2009, 09:00 PM
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Ok i admit it i don't have the eye for applying clear(paint)...or else i just don't have the lighting, i would prefer to blame it on the lighting, because really why would i blame myself for all these fricken runs.
.....that is the intro to me blowing way way to much clear on my newly flared car, mind you it looks great, but there are more than a few runs..er a lot but it is clear and i figure i have a polisher and mucho elbo grease. so i would like to hear your ideas on how to polish clear, (and runs and drips in clear if you don't mind....) and how long should i wait for it to cure in this cold weather....zero-ish step by step |
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| charliew |
Feb 11 2009, 11:16 PM
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It seems like the older I get the more runs I get. It's either I am too confident about my strokes and don't get on my knees as much or I flat can't see as well as 30 years ago. You can never have too much light. Also you should not get in a hurry, that is really hard for a painter to keep a handle on. The cooler the enviorment the bigger chance of runs or sags. Just today I got a long sag in a pearl clear mid coat that will show no matter how smooth I sand it, the pearl will puddle on the sag. The only repair is to redo it back from basecoat.
It is really hard to sand a run flat without sanding through the paint on either side. The razor seems to be my only choice. If I didn't crowd the coats and looked closely at each stroke and overlap and didn't try to stop and pick trash out and respray that spot I would get far less sags, I really don't get many runs. I call a long horizontal run a sag. I try to spray all the edges of a panel one pass and then do the big area to make sure the edges get enough coverage, some guys do the edges after the big areas, some guys try to get the edges as they or laying the passes for the big areas. The paint will try to go off to either side of a edge, it is hard to get the same film thickness on the edges as the flat area. Runs and sags will be the last of the paint to dry. |
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