Chaps,
After a lengthy strip down, masking up and prep session I attempted to spray the body of my car, and the car doors.
The result was a complete fail – it’s left me a broken man.
I knew painting my car would take effort but this has turned into an epic saga of paint reactions after paint reactions. I HATE cellulose!
As soon as the paint hit the body I started to get reactions in the paint, which looks like fish eyes or water in the paint. How this is happening I don’t know.
I used an airline that’s only ever been used for painting.
A water / oil trap.
The spray gun was stripped completely and cleaned thoroughly and then put back together.
I tried a different airline.
I tried a different water / oil trap
I tried a new can of thinners.
I tried a different spray gun.
The body was prepped to within an inch of its life, I scotched like crazy, I cleaned like mad, I tacked it to death, I degreased multiple times.
I lay down a light dust coat to start with an instantly the paint starts to react, further coats and it just gets worse and worse. The car roof looks dimpled (I stopped there) and the car doors reacted really badly – even on areas that were primed (so it’s not just the original paint surface).
I am totally stumped with this. I can only assume that there is something wrong with the paint? I did the door shuts with the old tin of paint I had to finish it off and they came out fine. The new tin has just gone reaction crazy! Is it possible for the paint to be duff?
Really miffed that I have put a billion man hours into this paint job so far and been hyper fussy and its not paid me back. My mate on the other hand painted 5 cars in a weekend and with a team of 20 enthusiastic mates, they quickly scotched, wiped down and painted them all and they have come out great and they didn’t pay half the attention I paid to the prep.
Difference being they used some military style paint which evidently is pretty inert and doesn’t react to anything – unlike Cellulose which will react with as much as a stern glare or some harsh language.
Does anyone have any suggestions what’s going on to get these reactions? I am probably just going to get some stick to anything military paint and use that instead, using Cellulose is an exercise in wasted time.
Cheers
James
After a lengthy strip down, masking up and prep session I attempted to spray the body of my car, and the car doors.
The result was a complete fail – it’s left me a broken man.
I knew painting my car would take effort but this has turned into an epic saga of paint reactions after paint reactions. I HATE cellulose!
As soon as the paint hit the body I started to get reactions in the paint, which looks like fish eyes or water in the paint. How this is happening I don’t know.
I used an airline that’s only ever been used for painting.
A water / oil trap.
The spray gun was stripped completely and cleaned thoroughly and then put back together.
I tried a different airline.
I tried a different water / oil trap
I tried a new can of thinners.
I tried a different spray gun.
The body was prepped to within an inch of its life, I scotched like crazy, I cleaned like mad, I tacked it to death, I degreased multiple times.
I lay down a light dust coat to start with an instantly the paint starts to react, further coats and it just gets worse and worse. The car roof looks dimpled (I stopped there) and the car doors reacted really badly – even on areas that were primed (so it’s not just the original paint surface).
I am totally stumped with this. I can only assume that there is something wrong with the paint? I did the door shuts with the old tin of paint I had to finish it off and they came out fine. The new tin has just gone reaction crazy! Is it possible for the paint to be duff?
Really miffed that I have put a billion man hours into this paint job so far and been hyper fussy and its not paid me back. My mate on the other hand painted 5 cars in a weekend and with a team of 20 enthusiastic mates, they quickly scotched, wiped down and painted them all and they have come out great and they didn’t pay half the attention I paid to the prep.
Difference being they used some military style paint which evidently is pretty inert and doesn’t react to anything – unlike Cellulose which will react with as much as a stern glare or some harsh language.
Does anyone have any suggestions what’s going on to get these reactions? I am probably just going to get some stick to anything military paint and use that instead, using Cellulose is an exercise in wasted time.
Cheers
James