Touch Up Product
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Cruising
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From: Fort Myers Florida
Touch Up Product
A while back, I read about a product used to remove the glob left by most touch up paints. After the glob dries, the product is applied via a cloth covering a flat card and removes the excess paint... the result is a smooth touch up matching the surface of the original paint. But now that I need it, I can't remember the product name and have lost the link to the manufacturer's website. Anyone know the name or product link?
Russ
Thanks for the replies... has anyone used Langka who likes it?
Russ
Thanks for the replies... has anyone used Langka who likes it?
Last edited by russ527; Sep 3, 2005 at 10:47 PM.
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The Mid America "Chip kit" contains super-fine sand paper and possibly a polishing compound (It's been a while since I use it). With this kit, a supplied clear coat is applied over the paint and this is what you sand down and polish. It works well as long as you use the correct touch-up paint.
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Mothers also sells a paint chip kit.
What I do is
1. Use touch up tube ( Duplicolor or other)
2. Let dry about 1-2 hours
3. take a smooth cotton towel ( like a dish towel)
4. open a can of 3M emblem and adhesive remover.
5. put the towel over the open can, invert the can momentarily
this gets a small circular area of the cloth saturated with the solvent. This solvent will not harm cured paint. That is why this needs to be done before the touched up area cures.
6. rub the touched up area gently. You can use a flexible piece of plastic behing the cloth ( a piece you cut out of the side wall of a margarine or other plastic container will do.
Rub until the surface is just below the surface are of the rest of the paint.
7. Let it cure a day.
8. now apply a layer of clearcoat
9 repeat steps 1-7
The clear coated area will have slightly reduced gloss.
A fine polish like the ones you buy to eliminate marks in clearcoat will restore the gloss Meguiare Scratch X , 3 M swirl remover, GS 23 etc
Then a good coat of wax. and you are done
What I do is
1. Use touch up tube ( Duplicolor or other)
2. Let dry about 1-2 hours
3. take a smooth cotton towel ( like a dish towel)
4. open a can of 3M emblem and adhesive remover.
5. put the towel over the open can, invert the can momentarily
this gets a small circular area of the cloth saturated with the solvent. This solvent will not harm cured paint. That is why this needs to be done before the touched up area cures.
6. rub the touched up area gently. You can use a flexible piece of plastic behing the cloth ( a piece you cut out of the side wall of a margarine or other plastic container will do.
Rub until the surface is just below the surface are of the rest of the paint.
7. Let it cure a day.
8. now apply a layer of clearcoat
9 repeat steps 1-7
The clear coated area will have slightly reduced gloss.
A fine polish like the ones you buy to eliminate marks in clearcoat will restore the gloss Meguiare Scratch X , 3 M swirl remover, GS 23 etc
Then a good coat of wax. and you are done
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Originally Posted by russ527
A while back, I read about a product used to remove the glob left by most touch up paints. After the glob dries, the product is applied via a cloth covering a flat card and removes the excess paint... the result is a smooth touch up matching the surface of the original paint. But now that I need it, I can't remember the product name and have lost the link to the manufacturer's website. Anyone know the name or product link?
Russ
Russ
