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> Paint question, Paint gurus please HELP!
VaccaRabite
post Aug 19 2007, 09:49 PM
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Okay.

So today I repainted my trunk panels. When I painted them the first time I got these little voids. I thought that they were solvent pops at first.

Now I am not so sure, cause I got them again when I re-painted.

Symptom:
Small crater in the paint, the largest being 1/32' in diameter, most of them are smaller. They are nearly perfect circles. No paint seems to want to exist there.

When I got them the first time, these were the corrective actions that I took:
1) I sanded out all the imperfections - wet sand, back down to primer with 400 grit paper.
2) re-shot sandable primer (primer seemed to adhere fine)
3) sanded primer with 400 grit paper till baby butt smooth.
4) cleaned with Eastwood Pre (wax and grease remover)
5) gently wiped down with a fresh tack cloth.

The really tiny ones were filled in with a heavy coat of paint, but there is still a tiny, but visible, depression in the paint.

Whatever it is, it seems like it repels the paint. Most of them seem to be on the targa top, but I have a few of them in the front hood and one on one of the headlamp covers.

I'm stumped. What the heck am I dealing with here? Where ever one of these little voids is, you can see clear down to the primer. My best guess is overspray of some sort of oil or lubricant or something, but I did not spray anything but paint since I sanded and cleaned the panels. I'd like to get them fixed.

Zach
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VaccaRabite
post Aug 20 2007, 07:25 AM
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As far as line driers, I have a fliter and water trap at the outlet of the air compressor. I have a smaller in-line filter and water trap at the inlet of the gun, right before the regulator on the gun.

I do not run any sort of oiler on the line, so my line should be oil free.

Tonight when I get home,I am goign to experiment on the headlamp cover. Sand out the paint, feather the edge, clean it and re-spray where the fisheye was. See if it come back or not.

If that works, then I will do that to the other panels.

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