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Originally Posted by 328FTW
I get annoyed with painting sometimes. I spend hours preping some cars to get a sh** paint finish but on the other hand you have my racecar which I rubbed down and power sanded and finished within a couple hours and it came out awesome. Stupid paint, stupid water  |
Yea sometimes, it's a hassle and you just want to half a** is but yet you want it nice. LOL
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Originally Posted by Denz
We drained it before each coat and it was a brand new water trap, he has done a few cars before and its a big ass compressor. He is looking at building or buying a big ass water trap for a couple of grand.
He is a bit of a perfectionist so was really ****ed off haha.
I might be able to find a picture of her before, but likely not, she was nothing special.
The paint on it was about as bad as you can get. lots of clear coat cracking, a few dings, one door was sprayed right over the unprepped clear of a previous colour. Some clear was thick and hard some was thin and soft. It was a patchwork.
One door Required just going over it with 150 grit and the other required hours of work to take it right back, shape it a bit, repair.
We stripped it, sanded everything to a stage where the body was straightish and was all finnished with 180 grit.
Masked it
Prepsoled it (Product called prepsol, it softens the paint and cleans off dust etc)
Layer of primer
Lots of sanding wit 180 taking out any imprefections we found
Prepsoled it
Thick primer
Lots of sanding with 240ish
Remasked
Prepsoled
Colour
Tomorrow I will take back the watermarks etc and have a go at spraying the topcoat, i'll have a professional painter watching over me hopfully.
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Sounds like what I did, Sanded imperfections with 180, then 320 to smooth it out and then 600 to leave it realy smooth, and tomorrow I'm going to give it the one coat it needs and saturday paint, HOPEFULLY....