Can someone please help me

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gunyhighway

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I need some advice. So today I spent all day painting my grill black. I put a whole day of work into this and I completely screwed up. It actually came out great at first after the clear coat and everything. There was just a couple spots on the grill that I noticed that the clearcoat didnt blend well. So a few hours after the clearcoat had already dried I put another small coat on. BAD IDEA. I know it was stupid. I knew I had messed up immediatly upopn starting. So now i have a grill with bubbled clearcoat.Its only on the actual front bars on the grill its not in between. Does this mean that I will have to start all over from scratch? Can I just sand down the front bars and do those over or will it not blend? Im am seriously sick to my stomach because i put all day in and was actually proud of what i did and i fucked it up. Id really appreciate some advice. Thanks guys:embarrassed::embarrassed::frown::frown:
 
I'm sorry you went to all that trouble.

Deecarp can also confirm this with me. But you will have to start all over again.

You will need to let the entire grill dry for a couple of days and get ready to start sanding the grill. Make sure to use laytex gloves when you sand down the Clear Coat. The chemical eats your hands up real good.

Sorry man.
 
This is just horrible. I cant believe i did this. Thanks for responding though Humberto before i did something else really stupid. i really hate myself right now
 
I recently did mine and sometimes things just don't go your way I'm sure as you found out. I would sand the clear and check the surface as you go along. wet sanding would yield better results compared to dry sanding dry sanding will just roll up the clear and get in the way. Now if you can repeat your first step it will not take as long as the initial preparation but you have to pay closer attention to detail. once the surface is smooth you can reclear it. if you are not satified with what you end up with then you'll have to recoat.

what type of base paint are you using, what grit sand paper are using and what clear paint are you using? every paint has it own drying time, some faster then others, and based on your coverage area will also determine how fast it dries. there are other I'm sure can help and chime in based on what other info you can give once you have started. Turbo just finished his, so maybe he'll chime in as well. good luck and I hope I've helped some. but I'll check back for a response to see if you got any other question from what I've asked you.
 
Don't hate your self. Especially if it's something that you are not an expert with.

Paint and the application of Clear Coat application is not that easy.

This is especially tough when you try to apply it when there is allot of humidity(Moisture) in the air or are applying it on a cool day.

You need to let the actual final coat of color be completely dry. Try using a Hair blow dryer and dry the grill gradually to ensure that the grill is completly dry and then apply the clear coat
 
Bert is right on the cure time of painting, some take 12-24 hours to become hard. but like i said it also depends on the type of paint and it's drying time, also your sandpaper texture come into play as well. you would not want to use something to rough it would make it worse. here is a check point for you, place your thumb in a small area, now if you finger print mars the paint or get and impression on the paint it would be to soft to sand.
 
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Totally agree Dee.

600 Grit is pushing it but you will need to use 1000 Grit to make sure that you remove even layers of the mistakes you are doing. If not you will have a half ass result.

You sand too much on one end and not on the other you wil have visual imperfections.

Just take your time brother.

I have had my share of messing up Grills and Head light hausings..:embarrassed:
 
You guys really made me feel alot better now. I appreciate it. As far as the paint i used it was krylon fusion. The clear was dupli-color. The paint job came out great. Better than I thought it would at least but the clear coat is what ruined it. Well im hoping to wake up tommarow and that suck will be dry so I can start sanding.
 
if used fusion then you didn't prime, correct? how many coats did you use on your base? fusin takes about 12 minutes dry to the touch, 1hr to handle 12+ to cure hard.
so depending on the humidity you might be able to start sooner. sand a small area and see what happens it won't hurt at this point just don't get carried away doing it, lol.... I know how that could be lol...
 
HumbertoCALI said:
Do me a favor Dee. I am on my PHone.

CAn you post a link to your thread of how you painted your grill.

Gunyhighway should read it..
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here is the thread... Grill Mod redone, I just had to do it... - InfinitiScene.com
first paint job steps...Painting Grill - InfinitiScene.com
 
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you need to sand and prime the grill first.. if you dont, it will quickly scratch off with the lil rocks n bugs that hit it all day and as you went from chrome to black, the chrome will show up like a scratch in tint.
 
Ash he's using the krylon fusion which adheres to plastic so if he lightly scuffed the chrome on the grill he wouldn't have to prime. in which case our chrome grill is plastic he should be fine but he'll now have to wait a lil bit until the paint has cure. then he can redo. and in his case what he needs to redo won't be to hard.
 
missed that part... yeah waiting for paint to cure is a pain... especially if youre as impatient as i am... blowdryer works wonders for drying time in between coats.
good luck with round 2
 
hey man, don't feel too bad, even pro's have times that things need to be redone, I know it's happened to me at times too :smile:

just remember 2nd time around it'll always come out better than the first:biggrin:
 
turbocad6 said:
hey man, don't feel too bad, even pro's have times that things need to be redone, I know it's happened to me at times too :smile:

just remember 2nd time around it'll always come out better than the first:biggrin:
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+1 man. Don't be too hard on yourself. If you've never done it before, it's luck to get it perfect the first shot.

I'm too chicken to do it still. :embarrassed:

It'll all turn out.
 
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