Ah, yeah...that might be it. It pin holed like hell on the second coat. Dried looking like fizz bubbles in coke a cola.... and I did use a mid temp reducer at 90-95.
Yep......been there, done that. Give each coat time to flash before putting on a second one. You might be able to save the job by shooting a couple coats of clear urethane on it. Just sand any rough, dry spots smooth with nothing coarser than 400.
The whole truck has been sanded, buffed and machine glazed. You think shooting those couple coats would be worth it? Might really make it pop even more, no?
If it looks OK, leave it alone. If it still does not suit you, put a couple coats of clear on it. It won't pop from the color coat. Just shoot a medium coat of clear on, give it plenty of time to flash, the put a full wet coat on. Clear is tricky, as it is thin. You won't use any reducer in it, just the urethane clear itself and catalyst. However, if you do get a run (flow indicators, as we call them), after it hardens, you can sand it right out and buff it. You will have to scuff the paint before you clear it, however. Use 400 wet or dry. I know................too much work!
Well, the K5 is my practice/get it right/learn the hard way truck... I really dont mind the work. Can you describe a medium coat as apposed to a wet coat. I tried to shoot what I though was two "medium" coats...but we know how that turned out.
You would have been ahead of the game to have practiced a little first. It takes a while to get the feel of using a spray gun. The biggest mistake beginners make is "arcing". That is, not keeping the aircap of the gun the same distance from the panel on each pass. If you arc, you will put too much paint on directly in front of you and not enough toward the ends of the pass. A medium coat is basically a fast coat, probably a single coat. a full wet coat os a double coat....you lay down a strip of paint, drop down 1/2 fan width, and come back the other way. Keep doing this until you reach the bottom of the panel. Also, look for the reflection of the gun in the fresh paint. All this is going to take practice. Buy a book about painting basics or Google it, as there is a lot of good info on the 'net. Using a spray gun is like anything else that you have to learn, through practice. Every gun is different, like no two cars drive the same, but once you get the feel of one gun, it won't take too much to get used to another. What kind of gun do you have? Gravity or suction? Hvlp or conventional?
The gun is a HVLP gravity feed 43430-8VGA from harbor freight. I did some reading, no books or dvd's, asked some questions and dove in. I should back up and do some more reading I did not arc. I did, however, overlap the bottom half of each pass on both coats... so that was two wet coats I suppose. Luckily, I had the sanding, wet sanding and polishing licked before I ever shot a drop of paint. I might shoot a couple coats of clear for shoots and grins just to see if I can "clean" it up. I have a couple of spots that I burned through where the paint laid thin I need to recoat (areas I thought were going to be coated with bed liner). I ended up applying bed liner to the bottom third of the body. sorry, its dark out.
Thanks! I will be re-shooting one panel and doing the jambs and inside door finish soon. The 377 is coming soon too!!
