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I am repainting the hood on my VW cabrio. The color went on well but the 2 part urethane clear is getting bad orange peel. Any tips?
Papa, Most important to follow the instructions on the product/paint you are using and using all the same product brand are important. Temperature, mixing/thinning, PSI your spraying at, spray tip size, technique how close/far you are to work when applying paint and and try to hold spray gun straight/perpendicular to surface being sprayed, all can effect the way clear coat is going to lay. I would always spray a test sample before spraying the hood to see what adjustments have to be made to avoid faults in the top coat. I will post a couple links that can give more info. and how to take care of orange peel in top coat after the fact. Good luck. I hope this helped you out, if so let me know by pressing the helpful button. http://www.drbeasleys.com/blog/2012/09/0… http://www.howtopaintcars.com/208/how-to… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebFTvqIq…
Papa Hajek, I’m by no means the spray master, but i found some resources for you that seem to be consistent with the (little bit of) spraying i’ve done: http://www.fujispray.com/orange-peel-hel… http://www.woodshopnews.com/columns-blog… Also this forum post seems to cover thinning down poly pretty thoroughly: http://www.woodweb.com/knowledge_base/Th… Best of luck
