last week I was painting a number of small parts. most turned out fine but two items, the waterpump pulley and the upper radiator bracket came up with a ton of "fisheyes" as soom as the paint hit it, plus on the WP pulley the paint crinkled up as soon as I hit it with the sencond light coat.
Well, the crinling paint I figured I tried to hit the second coat too soon but the fisheyes had be baffled as it was exactly what happened to me when I first tried to touch up my motor block.
Well, yesterday I was at a friends house using his media balsting cabinet on a bunch of other parts (Thanks Chuck!) so I glass bead blasted the WP pulley and radiator bracket to start from scratch again.
Today i wiped the freshly glass bead blasted bracket and pully down to get the beading dust off, than wiped it down with Acryli-clean as a surface cleaner and prepaint prep. It dried for about 2-3 hours while I ran out on errands. Got home and tried to paint them again and even more fisheyes on both than even the first time! %&*@#&$$%@*!!!!!!!!!
Time to wiped them off with lacquer thinner to get the new paint off yet again, clean them all over again and try painting them a third time. In the meantime i called a fellow club member who does his own restorations and explained the problem i was having. He said the parts and/or the paint was too cold and that is what was causing the fisheyes as he ran into that problem himself before. The parts were inside the house all yesterday afternoon and all night and all morning today and the paint was a fresh can I picked up this morning and was only outside in the truck during the drive home from the store. I wouldn't have thought either would be too cold but i'll try again tomorrow but before I do I'll warm up the parts with a hairdryer and i'll leave the paint can over the heating duct in the house to warm up for a few hours. and see if that helps.
The problem is if cold is causing my fisheye problems than when I get to painting the motor that's going to be a real problem to try to warm up the entire motor block while out in the garage this time of year. I'll have to see how warm my space heater can heat up the garage and I may have to go get some halogen heat lamps to hang over the motor too to heat it up.
leave it to me to make what should be a very, very simple thing of painting some small parts into a big hassle and problem! :eyerole
well, back to that heap 'o junk that's nothing but trouble............ opps, i meant to say back to my car that i love very much and greatly enjoy learning to do my own work on........
Well, the crinling paint I figured I tried to hit the second coat too soon but the fisheyes had be baffled as it was exactly what happened to me when I first tried to touch up my motor block.
Well, yesterday I was at a friends house using his media balsting cabinet on a bunch of other parts (Thanks Chuck!) so I glass bead blasted the WP pulley and radiator bracket to start from scratch again.
Today i wiped the freshly glass bead blasted bracket and pully down to get the beading dust off, than wiped it down with Acryli-clean as a surface cleaner and prepaint prep. It dried for about 2-3 hours while I ran out on errands. Got home and tried to paint them again and even more fisheyes on both than even the first time! %&*@#&$$%@*!!!!!!!!!
Time to wiped them off with lacquer thinner to get the new paint off yet again, clean them all over again and try painting them a third time. In the meantime i called a fellow club member who does his own restorations and explained the problem i was having. He said the parts and/or the paint was too cold and that is what was causing the fisheyes as he ran into that problem himself before. The parts were inside the house all yesterday afternoon and all night and all morning today and the paint was a fresh can I picked up this morning and was only outside in the truck during the drive home from the store. I wouldn't have thought either would be too cold but i'll try again tomorrow but before I do I'll warm up the parts with a hairdryer and i'll leave the paint can over the heating duct in the house to warm up for a few hours. and see if that helps.
The problem is if cold is causing my fisheye problems than when I get to painting the motor that's going to be a real problem to try to warm up the entire motor block while out in the garage this time of year. I'll have to see how warm my space heater can heat up the garage and I may have to go get some halogen heat lamps to hang over the motor too to heat it up.
leave it to me to make what should be a very, very simple thing of painting some small parts into a big hassle and problem! :eyerole
well, back to that heap 'o junk that's nothing but trouble............ opps, i meant to say back to my car that i love very much and greatly enjoy learning to do my own work on........