Has the snow and cold gone away enough to spray?

 

Nice timing in asking today.

Unfortunately the weather has remained cold and snowy, but today is finally melting. Additionally my business has been pulling all my resources for a while now.


But, your timing is great. Today is Victorias 16th Birthday. ❤️.

I was trying to get it painted in time to show her the “new” car but hey, neither of us feels any stress.

Thnx for checking in!!

 

Tell her Happy Birthday from us.

I'm living vicariously through you here, I have to do my hood the your experience that you share will help, a lot.

I understand being busy at work and it is a good thing.

 

i hope i can help! ive sure received plenty of it!

here is forcast. im ready to paint next tuesday. I can keep the temps at 21C with ambient temps about 8C.

Look fwd to it!

 

I'm sure Victoria will be so thrilled to see it all one color an extra few days will not be on her mind. All the sweat equity she put in to get to this ending will be a happy experience for life.

 

edit…as i research….maybe this is solvent pop? i figured it was the water. I have an inline dessicant filter. The water droent mentioned below came from the threads from the air line to the dessicant filter. dribbled out.

maybe this is solve t pop but i really dont think i was applying too much.

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Alot happening in my family of 6, got the opportunity to pound out a new painthing opportunity on frostbite.

Great news, i was able to lay the primer/sealer flat. Mixed the upol 4p:1h:2.5r(slow). 21c in my booth, 1.4 tip, fan half turn in from full, dynamic (so while spraying) pressure at gun of 30psi, mayerial backed off just to where the atomization was to little droplets.

The 2.5 of slow reducer was exactly what the doctor ordered for allowing a long but effective flash time, the upol laid flat, even though in some areas i did end up putting it on too light, it looked like it was going to have a micro orangepeel, it flowed out flat in the end.

On to color, i got this nailed.
with @IHBD ’s warning i did practice on this alot. ALOT. I used a 50color:50slow reducer mix. Applied it at high pressure, 35psi, fan 1/2 turn in from max, material backed way way way way down. For me what worked is to apply it very thin. If i had too much mayerial, it would begin to look mottled. I would go back and forth over the panel 4-5 times but with the material backed way way way off, to the point where it almost looks like nothing coming out. This slowly built a layer of the medium grey metallic that looked completely 100% homogeneous, had zero mottling, and i finished facing the same direction —pointing from the front towards the back at about 80degrees — to have the fine metal flake land the same direction. I did three coats like this. I found if i did a 6th pass, too much material would lay down, and while i did not get mottling, i would get what im calling micro orangepeel. Because of the very fine mist, even with the slow reducer, it would retain the micro orangepeel because it was pretty dry.

Note, ive seen videos where they apply the metallics color coat wet, accept the mottled look in the first two coats, and then apply the 3rd coat like im applying all three of mine. the result comes out nice. possibly better than mine. in my case, i avoided runs and sags using my method, and it honestly looks exceptionally homogenous for a first time metallics painter. (first time auto painter).

While i was laying the base coat, i noticed i had moisture, water droplets, on my hand. It was 1am and i should have STOPPED. I could have scuffed and shot another layer of base the next day, and gone on to clear.

Instead I pressed onwards, not realizing that droplet was the forwarning of destroying my clear.

My clear began to have water in it. booooooo. The clear came out like garbage from the start. I should have STOPPED. Instead i pushed on thinking “im going to have this car done by tomorrow”. Dumb.

Anyway, i did eventually stop/capitulate and the car is partially cleared, and the last panel that was cleared (rear right deck) has tiny little I THINK craters caused from water. I will be sanding the clear down, scuffing the un-cleared basecoat, laying more basecoat, then reclearing. I can handle it.

Root cause:
- small compressor
- very warm shop 23C, compressor got real hot
- I HAD NOT DRAINED the compressor in a while.

- this morning i drained the moisture out of the compressor, there was maybe a 1/4oz of water, rusty colored. booooo

- if id had the compressor outside in the cool 12c weather, i would have most likely been allright. I have neighbors close-ish and didnt want to upset them so it was inside.

- i have enough hose that i will coil it into a bucket and put a bag of ice in it for now. Going forward i will build a proper de-watering setup and if i need to keep a compressor inside its going to need cool outside air intake or something.


If you guys have any tips or suggestions on how to recover from this im all ears. This is learning as you go 😃



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when the water (i think is water) areived it really arrived. It also made the clear kinda hazy.

yeah, so close, so close to a decent first paintjob. Im going to have to likely sand it down and apply fresh base over this ???

This was a test from a few days before. There is orangepeel in the primer that came through up to the clear but i fixed that and the primer is laying flat now. i had to go to a 1.4 tip from a 1.7 because i thinned it so much. the clear will wetsand down.

 

While things haven't been 100% to your satisfaction yet I'm sure the final results will be outstanding. . Once you see the smile on Victoria's face when she drives it down the street will be such a reward for all her and yours's hard work.

 

@CorvetteRules yes you are right she is going to love it no doubt. She took a hiatus from an i terest in the car but in recent weeks its seriously rekindled as she can now drive and its summer lol.


And you are right, we have prevailed.

After consulting the tds on our clear, we discovered that we have a 24hrs recoat window at 25d C. We were 12hrs, and, 21c. So i lightly scuffed just the already laid clear with 1500 eagle pads as per paint society…and proceeded with confidence after draining both the hose and the tank and thoroughly cleaning my gun.

For my first paint job ever, i am absolutely thrilled with the result. Will need to buff it as there is plenty of trash (what the heck, i even used a tack rag!!!) but it already looks like a million bucks comparatively and to a kid, yeah shes happy.














yeah its not a professional job but for a metallic and it being my first paint job, im extremely happy

 

looks great - what an awesome job- daughter has an awesome car to drive and will be grinning ear to ear while enjoying it knowing she had a hand in it's revival - that's really good stuff!

 

That came out great! One of the most difficult colors to get right and you did it, and it looks incredible. Are you going to do a little wet sanding or call it good enough?

 

thnx guys,

plan is one more coat today. I got a tonne of trash in the hood paint i think from the shirt i was wearing. Silly VT, i even have a painters suit but didnt wear it. will lightly scuff with eagle k1500, windex the dust off, then tack rag it.

I need to do a less thick coat for this final coat yet still need to have it be smooth.

I think i do that by turning down the material. that will be three coats of clear.

 

That color looks great,