Traction

As you may have know I painted my car last week with duplicolor gunmetal metallic spray paint. Turned out flawless and I was really happy. My friend seen the job and was in love but didnt think I could do such a good job on his car so he went and bought some Dupont gunmetal paint.

So I mix it 1:1 with the basemaker and I load it into the gun an away I spray. First things I notice are that the gun is shooting weird, was in streaks of like 3 inches high, figured the would be more spread, anyways after almost completing one side, I look back at the finished work

WHAT THE ****!!! I yelled

The paint looked like **** in like 6 places, it looked like a turtle shell or like an orange skin and came up off the surface, I had no idea what cause it because the surface was clean and sanded to 400 grit.

So I just turned off the compressor and stopped, went inside buddies house and made this thread. Now his compressor is pretty old and would only let me do either 40psi or 100psi, is 40psi not enough and it isnt sticking?

WHATS GOING ON?

EDIT: Found a pic on google, mine isnt this large but thats what it looks like




Modified by StealthEF at 11:22 PM 6/6/2004

B_CRUZ!

so its fish eyeing? was the surface clean? whats the temp and humidity in your area?

Traction

Oh is that what its called?

Ya I wiped it with a tack cloth less than 2 min before I spray, unless Im supposed to wipe after I tack cloth

How do I fix the **** that already fucked up?

B_CRUZ!

if it is really bad, I would start from scratch again and sand it. post pics if you can...

Traction

ya Im looking on google and cant find anything under fisheye paint so I may not be talking about the same thing, it just looks like a dense cluter of cracks that protrude the surface

Traction

found a pic on google of what it looks like

ATS*Mark

bad paint mixing?

Traction

90% of the rest looks great

B_CRUZ!

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can you link it or post it?

edit: ahh... I see it.

Traction

first post

Full Race A6

spraying my car soon, wouldnt mind knowing what would cause this

HUBB

**** so thats what my maaco job is supposed to do any day now....

AVA

That happened to a grill I was painting. I think what happened was I didnt clean the surface good enough. But lucky for me, it was just primer, so I worked around it.

Traction

Howd you work around it

Im almost positive that I cleaned the area just fine, I went over it with a normal cloth then a tack cloth then shot the paint, wrong?

tnbigdawg

That's actually called "crowsfeet"...not "fisheye"!

Toubleshooting guide here:

This applies to other brands of paint as well.....


http://www.sherwin-automotive....uide/

The guide also has pictures for reference. Go through different discriptions that matches your paint defect because some defects look the same but are caused by different reasons.

Traction

Thanks man, gonna print it and read it many times.

Honestly thanks a lot

Traction

hmmmm, the last one in that guide kinda looks like it, one of the reasons is to low air pressure while spraying, Im going at 40-43 psi, is that good enough?

ATS*Mark

well you said it looked funny comming out of the spayer right??? maybe that paint requires a higher psi or something.

BoostedSi

same thing happened to me when i was spraying my pocket bike electron blue pearl. Pissed me off pretty bad cause i had to resand it and paint again. It was too humid outside cause it rained an hour before thats y it did it. I was just too of an impatient idiot to wait til the next day.

JDMorgan

that happend to me when i wiped the surface with thinner before i sprayed thinner based primer. last time i tried that.

This One

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thats crows feet.
Its most likely from some sort of substance under the paint

AVA

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Im almost positive that I cleaned the area just fine, I went over it with a normal cloth then a tack cloth then shot the paint, wrong?</TD></TR></TABLE>

I sanded it all away

Traction

So I can just sand this **** gone and paint over it?

What could be under the paint? First the car was spray painted and cleared so I sanded all the clear off, reprimerred and started spraying

Cause I prob have about 1 1/2 quarts left so Im gonna have to be stinchy lol

Intense3.2

same thing happened to me... i had to sand it down and spray it with a few coats, but you have to make sure that each coat is very light. My $0.02

AVA

When you sanded the clear off, you probobaly didnt do a good enough job at cleaning it all off.