[GMCnet] Restoration. Fixing those little paint chips. And not have it show. [message #293492] |
Wed, 06 January 2016 23:53 |
BobDunahugh
Messages: 2465 Registered: October 2010 Location: Cedar Rapids, IA
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Pick up a matching single stage paint that isn't lacquer based. ( Dries too quickly. ) Get a very tiny brush from a hobby store. Also some naptha. Don't thin the paint. As you want the paint to have some body to it. As you don't want the paint to flow out of the chip. Place small amount of paint in the chip so that the paint sticks up above the surface you're fixing. Let that fresh paint set up for about 15 minutes. Temp/ humidity will affect the wait time. Get a small part of a paper towel very wet with naptha. Gently, and slowly whip the fresh paint so that the thinner will dissolve the high points away first. The key is to let the thinner soften the highest point first. It's kind of like sanding off the high spots. With some practice, and care. The chip will be completely gone with no signs the it was ever there.Bob Dunahugh78 Royale
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Re: [GMCnet] Restoration. Fixing those little paint chips. And not have it show. [message #293555 is a reply to message #293524] |
Fri, 08 January 2016 15:33 |
KB
Messages: 1262 Registered: September 2009
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kerry pinkerton wrote on Thu, 07 January 2016 18:09
I'm not sure you can even get hardened paint products on the left coast any more. I have no idea how to use waterborne products.
Summit Racing sells all kinds of paints, and some of it can even be shipped here to California.
Just have to stick with the "low VOC" versions. I painted our coach with their Single Stage Acrylic Urethane.
Looked pretty decent (at least at 20' or so) but then we had a huge windstorm that caused part of
the cheesy shelter it's under to act like a battering ram on the right quarter of the nose.
Now I have a bunch of ugly dings to fix...
thanks,
Karen
1975 26'
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