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so my friend is painting my car for me....
he put on 3 coats of red after all the primer was sanded down and it went on PERFECTLY, no runs or anything, cleaning up the primer with a tack rag before applying the red paint.
ok, so stay with me now....
he taped off parts of the red painted car to apply the black paint (we are putting on black stripes etc.) and cleaned the surface again with a tack rag and also cleaned out the spray gun.
after applying a coat of black he noticed fish eyes in the paint. after another coat or two they seemed to have gone away so he left it as is. once that was all dry, the entire car got a few coats of clear coat.
at this point the ENTIRE car just got obliviated with fish eyes. I'm talking EVERYWHERE, even on the red paint which had absolutely NO fish eyes before puttin on the clear coat. Also the black paint had fish eyes as well. BAsically every part of the car was effed.
we dont' know what we did wrong, considering the red paint went on fine and we used the same tack cloth to clean and the same spray gun to apply... it's just not making any sense.
technically i believe fish eyes are from a "dirty" surface but like i said we did the same procedure each time to clean the surface before applying paint.
so can anyone help us identify the problem where we went wrong? And what is the best way to fix this problem? My friend thinks we might have to repaint the entire thing because he doesn't think you can simply wet sand the fish eyes out of there.
anyone with painting experience please help me. We don't mind having to do it over again, it will just have to be time spent....
we dont' want to have to sand the whole car down and then do it again and do it wrong twice in a row.
my bud is calling the paint shop tomorrow to see what they say.
my opinion is that either something got onto the car surface INBETWEEN the painting of the red coat and black coat or that perhaps the red paint we used is not compattible with the black or clear, hence the fish eyes. Another thing... we found some white crud inside the spray gun when we took it apart again, though it may just be some thread sealer... we're not sure.
it's a whole mess and to be honest i really don't know much at all about painting cars so i'd really appreciate any help here, especially if you know how this paint job can/has to be fixed.
he put on 3 coats of red after all the primer was sanded down and it went on PERFECTLY, no runs or anything, cleaning up the primer with a tack rag before applying the red paint.
ok, so stay with me now....
he taped off parts of the red painted car to apply the black paint (we are putting on black stripes etc.) and cleaned the surface again with a tack rag and also cleaned out the spray gun.
after applying a coat of black he noticed fish eyes in the paint. after another coat or two they seemed to have gone away so he left it as is. once that was all dry, the entire car got a few coats of clear coat.
at this point the ENTIRE car just got obliviated with fish eyes. I'm talking EVERYWHERE, even on the red paint which had absolutely NO fish eyes before puttin on the clear coat. Also the black paint had fish eyes as well. BAsically every part of the car was effed.
we dont' know what we did wrong, considering the red paint went on fine and we used the same tack cloth to clean and the same spray gun to apply... it's just not making any sense.
technically i believe fish eyes are from a "dirty" surface but like i said we did the same procedure each time to clean the surface before applying paint.
so can anyone help us identify the problem where we went wrong? And what is the best way to fix this problem? My friend thinks we might have to repaint the entire thing because he doesn't think you can simply wet sand the fish eyes out of there.
anyone with painting experience please help me. We don't mind having to do it over again, it will just have to be time spent....
we dont' want to have to sand the whole car down and then do it again and do it wrong twice in a row.
my bud is calling the paint shop tomorrow to see what they say.
my opinion is that either something got onto the car surface INBETWEEN the painting of the red coat and black coat or that perhaps the red paint we used is not compattible with the black or clear, hence the fish eyes. Another thing... we found some white crud inside the spray gun when we took it apart again, though it may just be some thread sealer... we're not sure.
it's a whole mess and to be honest i really don't know much at all about painting cars so i'd really appreciate any help here, especially if you know how this paint job can/has to be fixed.
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