1st time : Lessons...: With Pics !

[soggy60]

Before and after first time I ever painted....Outside surfaces were the same fade red....( Oh, the reflection in 2nd pic....I'm no where near that big,,,,kinda scrawney actually)

 

[79fj40moneypit]

Is that a Flow indicator?

 

[soggy60]

Flow Indicator ? ? ?

 

[cruiser88]

did you dry sand AND wet sand

 

[cruiser88]

and use a tac/rag solution

 

[toddslater]

Flow Indicator ? ? ?

I think this is what he is talking about

 

[soggy60]

Gee, I call that a run

I dry sanded; really reluctant to wet sand...may never dry; yes, it's over 90 deg in the garage, but the rel humidity is also over 90 !

Rather than tack rag, I used clean linen material & air blow; wipe & blow, blow while wipe....

The 'matte' ( orange peel) isn't too bothersome; it was the 'draw back' (fish eyes?) where the paint drew away from a spot (actually, a few spots here & there..... ), that bugged me. I think I transferred a contaminant from my hands (or sand paper) to the primer....shouldn't be oil in the air line (diaphragm pump); shouldn't be water, have moisture trap....

Thanks to yall and the dude's at the paint store, have an approach to ten to the fisheyes....now, when I have the time, I'll give it another go...

 

[cruiser88]

Gee, I call that a run

I dry sanded; really reluctant to wet sand...may never dry; yes, it's over 90 deg in the garage, but the rel humidity is also over 90 !

Rather than tack rag, I used clean linen material & air blow; wipe & blow, blow while wipe....

The 'matte' ( orange peel) isn't too bothersome; it was the 'draw back' (fish eyes?) where the paint drew away from a spot (actually, a few spots here & there..... ), that bugged me. I think I transferred a contaminant from my hands (or sand paper) to the primer....shouldn't be oil in the air line (diaphragm pump); shouldn't be water, have moisture trap....

Thanks to yall and the dude's at the paint store, have an approach to ten to the fisheyes....now, when I have the time, I'll give it another go...

i always mak the last step of course tac rag but before it helps alot to take a green kitchen srubby with alot of dawn dishsoap and wash it all downhelps with grease and some unwanted items you may missed

 

[soggy60]

Dude at auto paint store seemed to think a wipe with very clean cloth 'barely' moistened with methenol would help with ensuring 'grease free'...

He recommended against lacquer thinner....

I'll try the Denatured Alky . . .

 

[toddslater]

PPG makes Prep Solv and RM Inmont makes Pre Kleeno...these are for wiping the surfaces down (wet one clean rag well with the solvent and follow with a lint free clean cloth)....think of the wax on... wax off motion, then use a tack rag just before squirting. Remember if you run it just the right amount...all you need to do is trim it off the bottom of the door

 

[soggy60]

Thanks for info about cleaners . . .