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[Fire shell]

Seriously impressed with your efforts, can I ask, when did you know to use the tack cloth between coats. Was it after the fifteen minute period ? After it had flashed off. Doing my homework, and mentally have visions of cloth sticking.

Any advise greatly received , thanks in advance
Steve

[germini30]

What did you use to go back to the bare metal?

[ROD]

I used paint striper to get mine to bare metal.

[Shawbags]

 

Hey all,
 
As per the title, I have read and watched a serious amount of literature and videos and have now taken the plunge.
 
I painted the inside of the roof as this will never be seen and I could do with the practice.
 
 
 
My observations were:

The primer flashed in good time, hardly any orange peel
 
Block sanded with 400 and then shot the colour, 50% colour 50% thinner.
 
Colour landed well, I then gave it another coat with 30% colour 70% thinner. very small amount of orange peel.
 
Paint appeared very dull, very limited gloss and reflection.
 
I then cut it with some T-cut I had lying around on a microfiber cloth for approx 5mins with my hand - no machine (this was the random experiment)
 



 
Started to get a reflection.
 
I then wet sanded with 1000, and then cut it with T-cut by hand
 

 
A much improved reflection.
 
From my reading I feel if i then did the same with 2000 w/d and then machine buff with the appropriate compounds / polishes i should get a good result. Obviously I wouldn't be polishing between sanding. That was just for the purpose of the experiment.
 
Just thought I would share my random afternoon with you all.
 
I will update this thread when the time comes for my final paint and cut / polish. should be interesting

 

Over the years I have painted a few VW Campervans in cellulose and ended up with a good finish , I made sure the prep work was as good as I could get it and painted 50/50 mix , I have painted outside on a warm sunny day and the paint was flat and dull , I let it harden for a week and mopped it up with an electric polisher and ended up with a very good high shine finish , it all depends on how good you want the finish to be and how much you want to pay , I would always paint in the same way with older cars but if I owned a later car that needed a workshop finish that is the way I would go , old VW Campers looked better with a cellulose finish because that was the type of paint that was used to paint them originally and the same goes for older mini's
 

Shawbags.

Edited by Ben_O, 05 March 2015 - 01:22 AM.
tidying up

[bluemini17]

Over the years I have painted a few VW Campervans in cellulose and ended up with a good finish , I made sure the prep work was as good as I could get it and painted 50/50 mix , I have painted outside on a warm sunny day and the paint was flat and dull , I let it harden for a week and mopped it up with an electric polisher and ended up with a very good high shine finish , it all depends on how good you want the finish to be and how much you want to pay , I would always paint in the same way with older cars but if I owned a later car that needed a workshop finish that is the way I would go , old VW Campers looked better with a cellulose finish because that was the type of paint that was used to paint them originally and the same goes for older mini's
 

Shawbags.

 

 

 

 

thanks for the input, always good to hear about other people and their results

[bluemini17]

Seriously impressed with your efforts, can I ask, when did you know to use the tack cloth between coats. Was it after the fifteen minute period ? After it had flashed off. Doing my homework, and mentally have visions of cloth sticking.

Any advise greatly received , thanks in advance
Steve

 

if you read the notes that come with the product it will tell you the flash time.

 

Mine was 20mins max. When using a tac cloth, you dont apply any pressure, you simple glide it over the paint, (pinch it in the corner and simply draw it across the paint, the only weight being applied is the weight of the cloth if that makes sense) if you press while using it you will leave wax deposits on the paint, not good.