Solvent Pop - Is There an Easy Fix?

[dklawson]

EDIT: Removed all of old post.

Sorry. I was looking for an easy fix to a painting disaster. Upon closer examination, there is no easy fix and the situation is worse than I thought. I'll strip off the problem paint I applied today and start again.

 

[tdskip]

Bummer Doug - sorry to hear it.

 

[dklawson]

Thanks. I was so depressed I just sat in the living room all of last night and planned how to try and quickly get all the paint back off. Normally I'd be in the garage tinkering with parts.

I looked at the paint this morning before leaving for work. It's MUCH worse than it appeared as the sun went down yesterday. I hope the fresh paint is still soft enough that chemical strippers will remove it easily.


Sigh.

 

[billspit]

Aircraft stripper should remove pretty much any paint.

Sorry to hear of the SNAFU. I felt the same way when I realized after I had welded in the reproduction rear valance on my 64 Spoitfire that the left side was not like the right side. It wasn't unitl I offered up the rea fenders that I realized it. I walked away from that project for years after that.

 

[DNK]

If you run into trouble, my Mother in Laws Chili will take care of it!

 

[rlwhitetr3b]

Don,

Sign over whatever is left of your 401K to me and I will not forward the post above to your Mother in Law.

 

[DNK]

All that's left

 

[tdskip]

You've got a lot of company Don... good thing we all diversified into TRs

 

[tdskip]

Hang in there Doug - maybe take a day away from it and then just go attack the darn thing.

Let us know how you make out.

 

[dklawson]

The rain predicted for yesterday did not last so when I got home from work I applied a heavy coat of Strip-Eze to the bulkhead. The urethane was still new enough that within 5 minutes the finish started to split into strips, lift, and curl on top of the primer. I was then able to scrape off about 95% of the top coat.

It's pouring rain here today but when that stops I hope to apply a second coat of stripper to the bulkhead to lift the remaining red paint and soften the primer's bond to the metal. Eventually I'll drag the sandblaster out to remove every last trace.

Thanks again for the well wishes. I know I'll get there albeit weeks behind when I thought!

 

[Brosky]

Wicked Bummer!! That happened to me once on an Olds 442 that I had painted with Imron, when it first came out in the early 70's. It was a bear to get off, as we let it set all weekend in a hot paint booth to cure. It didn't show after 24 hours, so we thought it was fine, but Monday morning it was a horror show when we opened the booth doors.