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Paint Problem
Just started painting my 2nd grill, yet this one is giving me the sh*ts. I'm using a lacquer based spray can to do this, done the colour, and was just upto the clearing stage. but the 1st coat of clear kind of dried blotchy, patchy, matt in places, (forgot to say when wet it looked fine).
2nd coat of clear made it even worse, hopefully you can tell from these pictures whats going on, if they're clear enough.
All I want to know if there is someway of fixing this i.e more layers of clear or am I best to start again? Let me also say that i've done my complete bumper and it looked fine, only thing that got changed was the brand of clear, which is now a more expensive one, yet the 1st one was a cheapo one.
JCCC Warrnambool
there might be smooth spots on the grill and the clear is more shiny on them?
stoopid question but did you even the clear out correctly holding the can 30cm away when you sprayed?
why didnt you use a normal black gloss spray can??
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Cos its being colour coded the same as my car, dark blue 28L imperial blue?Originally Posted by h0Ld3n`VN
oh ok, not sure on the colour.. what kind of paint is it?? Matt paint or gloss? you want it shiny yeah?
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Its a lacquer if that tells anyone anything, its colourpak brand and has been matched to my car, yea shiny would be great. want it like the rest of the car, don't mind about the non-mirror finish you get with cans tho.
ha not sure about lacquer paint! after the clearcoats are added aint you suppose to polish it or something????
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I used a clear laquer coat from a spray can on my pushbike and the same thing happend! It was really frustrating after many hours of preping and painting, I beleive it has somthing to do with the right operating temperatures, it cant be too cold I beleivwe, it says the temp range on the can. But we also came down to a conclusion of a crap product, it was K&H aswell not the cheapo brand, but it was hopeless. My GF's grandad was a spray painter for yearrrs and he told me about the temp issue with clear coats, but I tried and tried and it didnt get any better. if you can, Don't use any can clear stuff, its crap.
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well i've used many cans of clear of the imb brand and they have been fine, this is the 1st time i've run into this? the clear brand that I can only get now is colourpak which is what the matched cans have on them also, so i'm wondering if its just been made at the paint shop?
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When you did it last time and it worked, what kind of temp was it, are you applying it within optimal temperatures.
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the temp hasn't changed a heap in the last couple of weeks really. and i've done a fair bit in the last couple weeks.
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im going to put it down to uneven paint, ill sand and try again and let you know what happens.
SKYPER
what it looks like in the picture looks like what we call blooming,it is from being to cold or drying to fast ,if it looks dull and milky than that is what it is,i would say u sprayed it in a draught and the clears thinners is one that dries to fast ,i have been painting 4 35 years so i no what im saying ,go to a paint shop get them to make u up a pressure pack of clear with a slower drying thinners and than dust your colour over it again,get it nice an even then apply the first coat of clear lightly then to more a bit heavier about 1 minute apart,all this paint would be acrylic paint
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Good post, thanks for your expertise
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yea spot on there, they way you've described it sounds like thats it, ill give it another go with different clear, and have try your way.
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im an idiot, took it to the guy at the paint shop he pulled out a little polish and bam mint as.
SKYPER
your were lucky ,it was only in the top coat ,sometimes real bad bloom just wrecks the whole job,well done that saved u heaps
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now just got the bumper to do, im amazed at how smooth its turned out in spray cans, most other spraying i've done leave kind of like an orange peal type underlying, not what most people consider orange peal, but the part that makes it like mirror if that makes sense to anyone.
haha post #7.. told you to polish it
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