a friend of mine has an eclipse that he wants to reclear a couple times and then buff it, he only put two coats on about 3 months ago.

what should i do to prep the old clear before hand? sand it with what grit?

thanks

 

600 or 800 will do

 

^ +1 on the big flat areas, and red scotch pad on curves,corners,e.t.c

 

cool, i use red scotch bright pads to scuff paint before laying base, so that'll work great

 

to reclear I use 1000 grit wet.

 

At work we use a Grey scratch pad and 1200 wet. If we used red you will see them after a while. The clear might soak into the scratches left behinde by a red scratch pad. We only use red for primer.
This is with Dupont chromaclear. There are some clears out there that actually fill bit I never seen them used or know of anyone that uses them.

 

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This is with Dupont chromaclear. There are some clears out there that actually fill bit I never seen them used or know of anyone that uses them.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I'm with Disease, I wouldn't use a red scuff pad for re-clearing. I only use red scuff pads on e-coats (new panels) before I seal them. For re-clearing I would just use 1000 grit wet.

 

^^^ Good advice. Well at 3 months it is still somewhat fresh. Red is pretty coarse, but scuffing is not the best route. 800-100 wet would work great, it will level the surface and minimize/remove imperfections, nibs ect.

 

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Thats funny, I know a dupont painter thats probably the most knowledgeable guy I know and thats exactly how he preps.

 

if you dont want your clear peeling in sheets, I wouldn't use anything finer than 1000, if you don't know how to use red scotch pad without leaving deep scratches, then, use gray pad,but the best way to prep for clear is gray pad with prep-paste,"scuff stuff",it gives you a nice uniform preped surface as well as it removes any contaminants,also you may want to consider spraying mid-coat adhesion promoter,

 

yea I also do that for curves and parts a do cant get into. grey scotch brite and sand fix.