If you were able to wet sand and rub the spray paint then it was laquer.
It is impossible to rub and sand enamal unless it has a hardner added to
it. Touch up paint never contains a hardner. It sounds to me like who ever
painted the car either failed to seal the surface or gave it a "20" coat
laquer finish. Never Never put more paint on than is needed. With laquer
stick to around 6 coats, this should give you plenty of sanding and
rubbing coats. Also if you use an orbital buffer you are less apt to
damage the paint, although it will take a little longer and not be quite
as glossy. When done give it a glaze and a coat of wax.
On Mon, 7 Jul 1997, pbailey wrote:
> Yes Virginia ,You can get a nice paint job from a spray can IF you take
> your time
> of course it won't be as nice as a good professional job( not Earl
> Scheib etc) but it can be done and you will like the results especially
> when you look in your wallet.
> My car had one side which had been repainted some where in it's history
> with laquer which now was cracking(so much for laquer!!)I got tired of
> looking at it so I went down to my "friendly" paint shop..."Yup..We can
> do it for $500 !!!!...sez He....."screw you sez I"......So I went down
> to my local auto paint dealer and found out you can buy original paint
> in spray cans for $12 So I bought 3 cans some primer some wet sand paper
> from 200 to 2000 grit and tackled the side of my car..after sanding down
> to metal all I found was a little patch of bondo about 3" in diameter
> and 1/8 th " thick I don't know why the car was painted with laquer in
> the first place ...so now I prime it and wet sand between coats wet sand
> it down as far as you like,now after letting it dry good make sure the
> surface is clean and put the paint on spraying carefullynot to get any
> runs let it dry for a week and then COLOR SAND it using 2000 or finer
> grit and a lot of running water if you want to apply another coat ,when
> you are done color sanding it will look dull and you will say "what a
> waste of time!!"NOW go over it with rubbing compound,then polishing
> compound npw you will notice it start to shine...next use Meguires(sp)
> swirl remover finally wax it I use Zymol and you will have a nice paint
> job that costs under 50 bucks and some one will have to look hard to
> notice that it was home done,just remember don't put on the fial coat
> until you are sure theprimer is free from flaws as any flaw will show
> through the final coat I honestly think someone could do a whole car
> this way and get good results,also if you get a cheapie paint job you
> could make it look a lot better by color sanding it afterwards.
> BTW I did my rubber bumpers the same way and get compliments whereever I
> go
> good luck and you can do a good job if as I do you have more time than
> money....Pat
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