Hello everybody, late last year I painted the wing of my ford with cellulose paint which reacted with something and went crazed like an old oil painting,I used a heater to dry the paint as it was winter and the general consensus on the forum was that I had dried it too quickly which caused the cracking.Over the last 3 weeks I have rubbed the whole wing back to bare metal,primed it with cellulose primer left that for a week, then flatted back and over the course of a day given the wing about 4 good top coats of cellulose.I left the top coat for a week then today I cut the paint with upol 333 cutting compound on an electric mop and gave it a polish with mer.this was at around 10 am this morning and I left the wing looking shiny and new,its now nearly 4 o'clock and the whole wing is again covered in cracks! what the f### is causing this to happen? I thought a week was plenty of time for the paint to have hardened in the hot sun but I am now faced with doing the whole job for a third time,obviously I won't be using the upol again unless anybody can tell me otherwise I'm assuming that the chemicals in it have something to do with the reaction I keep getting although surely thats what its for isn't it?
Keith.
Bad paint reaction...AGAIN!!
Re: Bad paint reaction...AGAIN!!
Sounds like a silicon reaction to me.
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Would that be a reaction to the silicon in the upol333 or a reaction to silicon residue on the wing before I painted it ? I took the whole thing back to bare metal and cleaned it before spraying.
Re: Bad paint reaction...AGAIN!!
Silicon is almost impossible to remove, so any product you may of used that are high in silcon could be the cause.
Do you have a photo of the latest problems.
Do you have a photo of the latest problems.
Re: Bad paint reaction...AGAIN!!
I certainly do have a picture of the latest problems unfortunately I can't remember how to post them I've got a photo bucket account and they are in there but its ages since I used it,can anybody tell me how please ?
Re: Bad paint reaction...AGAIN!!
you can either copy the link from photobucket to the image and put the link in tags starting with [img]and%20ending%20with[/img]
or you can upload the picture to the board with the attach function (when you compose a message it is just below the box you enter your text in)
or you can upload the picture to the board with the attach function (when you compose a message it is just below the box you enter your text in)
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Re: Bad paint reaction...AGAIN!!
OK I hope that I have got this right,if so then there will be a picture of my wing complete with cracks in the paint,If not you will have to use your imaginations but every thing was fine with the top coat for a week whilst I left it to harden and then about ! hour after polishing with upol333 the cracks began to appear fine at first then gradually getting wider and longer over the course of 2 or 3 days though strangely not eating into the primer underneath.
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bugger no pictures ! oh well I'm about as good with computers as I am with a spray gun!
Re: Bad paint reaction...AGAIN!!
This is how you do it:
if you do a quote of this message you will see how. you get the link from the "direct html" bit on photobucket
if you do a quote of this message you will see how. you get the link from the "direct html" bit on photobucket
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.