must update....
Aside from messing about with a stupid polo, what have I been doing?
Well the roof, been dry for a few weeks, decided to pee water into the bedroom again, I was thinking....slates off again but thankfully it was due to a dumb ass who did the guttering (me).
So what has been happening with the golf? I've been doing a lot of flatting and a fair bit of swearing and taking off whole panels of wrinkle finished paint.
The method I decided on was to spray the panel with thinner and let it wrinkle up, wait and spray it again, then get a filler spreader and scrape the whole lot off. Finally wiping the remnants off with a thinner soaked cloth.
Eventually ready to paint again but apprehensive of other areas reacting - lesson learned - mix your 2K properly. :roll:
Fed up with my cheapo gun, I wanted something decent and decided to ask wonderful caddy forum - then two devilbiss guns arrive on my doorstep within two days (Cheers Rolo and 13ad13oy ;D)
Now rolo has made me a gun and as it's a grav feed I'm gonna try that first, I think it's a bitza gun with no known settings, having to spray un thinned (to avoid thinner reaction) which didn't help.
In the current weather, I cant get outside, so can only get to some of the panels whilst the car is in the garage.
First up, a blat of thinner on the nightmare door with my old gun, blooming thin starts leaking halfway through - it's days are numbered :twisted: but the door is fine
So I pickup the rolo gun load it and do a few test spray on an old wing, to be honest, despite great advice, I'm not really sure what twizzly knob does what
So I set off, immediately I have to up my pace, with the old gun I had to go slow, this baby is whacking it on mega quick and my sweep rate has to increase, too much for me as I'm struggling to keep to the wet edge and maintain distance from curved panel - eventually my brain kicks in and I turn the gun down, not before I've put a nice sag in the wing.
The daylight is rapidly failing so I've got all the lights on, extra inspection lamps, my head torch on and I've got a site floodlight in my left hand, spraygun in right.
I do what panels I can get to and run out of mix.
By now it's dark and a fly has just dropped into the wet roof - I shut off all the lights except the site light which I take well out of the garage to attract the flies away from my car.
I'm cleaning the gun with my headtorch in the otherwise blackness!
About 2 hrs later I venture back fingers crossed that there are no ripples,there are a few spots with not enough paint on, a slight bit of orange peel (to be expected with thick paint I guess) BUT thankfully it's not reacted, the best panel is the last one I did that was awkward to get to and poorly lit
While I'm sat looking at it, I'm drawn to an imperfection in the front wheel arch, where weld has caused a ripple - unnoticeable in primer but HUGE in gloss coat.
nah it'll be fine
leave it
nah you can't see it
I tried to convince myself it doesn't matter but within 30 mins I've slapped a huge skim of filler on
now I'm looking for more trivial things wrong, I thought the gutters would be ok but they still have a slight wrinkle so I've started stripping the roof
Once the wing filler had gone off I attacked with the 60 grit on my patent snap-on body file - I've hi built it a lot and it's better than it was, hard to tell until I put the paint on....
I'm gonna turn the car around, do the remainder then flat slightly and give it a last* coat with some thinner in.
last = possibly one of 6 'last' coats
Aside from messing about with a stupid polo, what have I been doing?
Well the roof, been dry for a few weeks, decided to pee water into the bedroom again, I was thinking....slates off again but thankfully it was due to a dumb ass who did the guttering (me).
So what has been happening with the golf? I've been doing a lot of flatting and a fair bit of swearing and taking off whole panels of wrinkle finished paint.
The method I decided on was to spray the panel with thinner and let it wrinkle up, wait and spray it again, then get a filler spreader and scrape the whole lot off. Finally wiping the remnants off with a thinner soaked cloth.
Eventually ready to paint again but apprehensive of other areas reacting - lesson learned - mix your 2K properly. :roll:
Fed up with my cheapo gun, I wanted something decent and decided to ask wonderful caddy forum - then two devilbiss guns arrive on my doorstep within two days (Cheers Rolo and 13ad13oy ;D)
Now rolo has made me a gun and as it's a grav feed I'm gonna try that first, I think it's a bitza gun with no known settings, having to spray un thinned (to avoid thinner reaction) which didn't help.
In the current weather, I cant get outside, so can only get to some of the panels whilst the car is in the garage.
First up, a blat of thinner on the nightmare door with my old gun, blooming thin starts leaking halfway through - it's days are numbered :twisted: but the door is fine
So I pickup the rolo gun load it and do a few test spray on an old wing, to be honest, despite great advice, I'm not really sure what twizzly knob does what
So I set off, immediately I have to up my pace, with the old gun I had to go slow, this baby is whacking it on mega quick and my sweep rate has to increase, too much for me as I'm struggling to keep to the wet edge and maintain distance from curved panel - eventually my brain kicks in and I turn the gun down, not before I've put a nice sag in the wing.
The daylight is rapidly failing so I've got all the lights on, extra inspection lamps, my head torch on and I've got a site floodlight in my left hand, spraygun in right.
I do what panels I can get to and run out of mix.
By now it's dark and a fly has just dropped into the wet roof - I shut off all the lights except the site light which I take well out of the garage to attract the flies away from my car.
I'm cleaning the gun with my headtorch in the otherwise blackness!
About 2 hrs later I venture back fingers crossed that there are no ripples,there are a few spots with not enough paint on, a slight bit of orange peel (to be expected with thick paint I guess) BUT thankfully it's not reacted, the best panel is the last one I did that was awkward to get to and poorly lit
While I'm sat looking at it, I'm drawn to an imperfection in the front wheel arch, where weld has caused a ripple - unnoticeable in primer but HUGE in gloss coat.
nah it'll be fine
leave it
nah you can't see it
I tried to convince myself it doesn't matter but within 30 mins I've slapped a huge skim of filler on
now I'm looking for more trivial things wrong, I thought the gutters would be ok but they still have a slight wrinkle so I've started stripping the roof
Once the wing filler had gone off I attacked with the 60 grit on my patent snap-on body file - I've hi built it a lot and it's better than it was, hard to tell until I put the paint on....
I'm gonna turn the car around, do the remainder then flat slightly and give it a last* coat with some thinner in.
last = possibly one of 6 'last' coats