OT: paint, on my 9eleben Options

[brant]

Tim,

no real advice for you.
I can say we had to shoot our clear 2X when we tried it.
I learned that I'm not good at painting...

but sand it down with 600 and then reclear it.
are you running the right temp of hardner in your clear for your weather?

that made all of the difference for us.
and we made sure we shot it at the time of day to match our hardner.

all I can say is 2nd time was better.. so I hope your 2nd time goes smooth (paint-pun-intended)

brant

[redshift]

Tim, what is the nature of the texture? Is it little popped bubbles, or a white area of small scaley crap, or is that tiny fisheye?

I see it's rough..


M

[TimT]

actually is like severe orange peel. Ive nbeen sanding it out (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/laugh.gif)

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[tdgray]

Tim

Are you shooting the clear the same as the paint?

If you are that could certainly account for the problem.

Check the directions again. Make sure that your pressure at the GUN REGULATOR is adequate.

What size needle and nozzle are you using?

That makes a diff also.

From the pic it looks like one of two things. Too much material or not the proper reducer. Check that you are using the proper reducer for very hot temp's

[redshift]

ChromaClear!

Tim, whats the base? I have used BC/CC a couple times, with ChromaClear.

The clear flowed on like water, and never changed gloss. I shot it with a turbine, clean up, and rub out took no time at all, fact is, that shit is way to hard to cut.

I think the base is suspicious.

Other thoughts:

1. Did you wipe the freshly dried basecoat with any kind of anything?

2. You are laying down 2-3 times the material you should be? (reducer dilema?)



M

[914GT]

QUOTE (redshift @ Jul 25 2005, 10:02 AM)

ChromaClear! Tim, whats the base? I have used BC/CC a couple times, with ChromaClear. The clear flowed on like water, and never changed gloss. I shot it with a turbine, clean up, and rub out took no time at all, fact is, that shit is way to hard to cut. I think the base is suspicious. M

That's what I use too. Needs plenty of air pressure at the gun (HVLP) to properly atomize or you get orange peel. 23psi at the gun means maybe 60 psi or more at the regulator end depending on size/length of hose. Normally I'll crank the pressure up to 100 psi and regulate it at the gun with a cheater valve. The clear sands nice 18 hours after shooting, but gets damn hard after a couple days. I'd have a hard time going water-base. I like to get the whole job done in a few hours with BC/CC.

[redshift]

I look at that picture, and I see molasses.. just looks thick.


M

[TimT]

K I feel like the karate kid.... wax on wax off LOL

I knocked down all the orange peel.. and will try to shoot this again when the weather breaks up here... supposed to be almost 100 with 90% RH these next few days

[TimT]

Miles the base is as smooth as a babies ass..

Im using that water based stuff posted the link before..

I had a friend of mine shoot the clear on another pieces and it looks really nice... the blue looks like you can reach into it and grab a few ice cubes..

I need to learn how to do that (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/mad.gif)