Painting my radio bezel. Need some help
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Painting my radio bezel. Need some help
For some reason when I spray the adhesive promoter on my bezel it is making like this crackling effect on the plastic and is really making it look $hitty. It is really starting to **** me off. After it happened the first time, I sanding it down again then sprayed. Well, it happened again. What gives? I know how to spray paint. My dad thinks it is called "Orange Peeling." Could it be that the bezel is warm from me sanding it and the paint it garage temperature cold (49 degrees here). I reallly want to get this thing back in.
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Ya, I had 600 grit on it. I peeled all of the rubbery stuff off. I am guessing it is just cause of the cold even though I have never had this problem before in the cold.
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You just have to wait until a nice warm day man. I had the same problem with my bezel. Keep the cans in your room to let the warm up and wait until a day when it's at least 65 degrees before you try again. Make sure to do light coats, but not too light or it will cause orange peel. You may want to wet sand it down to get a nicer finish on it. But just take your time.. Because it will pay off.
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fill your bathroom sink with hot water. Put the can of paint in a ziplock baggie, and place the can in the baggy in the hot water. Let it stay there about 10 minutes or so. This will heat the paint up and it should spray properly.
Little model trick i learned a few years back..whenever i paint something in this time of the year, I always do it.
Little model trick i learned a few years back..whenever i paint something in this time of the year, I always do it.
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veins? sounds like the adhesion promotor attacked the paint underneath it. Gotta sand it. You have a problem with the solvent penetrating the substrate and its moving it. Probably putting the adhesion promotor on too wet. its aggresive ****.
Take pics of it. How soon do you need it back? If you really wanna wait i might be able to shoot it for you if you dont mind shipping it.
Take pics of it. How soon do you need it back? If you really wanna wait i might be able to shoot it for you if you dont mind shipping it.
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Regarding the OP, it's just too damn cold out to spray paint.
Use lacquer thinner to remove all the paint currently on it, and then spray it with brake cleaner or a paint prep degreaser. Rinse it off, and then apply your paint. I didn't use any adhesion promotor on mine, I just simply sprayed the ground coat on the bare sanded plastic and then applied my top coat and clear coat and it came out mint.
I also painted indoors at room temperature. The first time I painted it, I had left the door open with cold air coming in from outside and the corner that was nearest the cold air ended up crackling on me like you're experiencing, so it is definetly the temperature that is affecting your paint.
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I ran into 1 problem. I was prepping my radio bezel for paint. I sanded all the old paint off,sanded it for 3hrs. Cleaned it up and I sprayed on the adhesion promoter and in places on the bezel it would turn white and cracks would appear. I have never seen anything like it before. I wet sanded the white spots and cracks with 220 and painted it and it turned out good. Anyone else run into the same problem?
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I ran into 1 problem. I was prepping my radio bezel for paint. I sanded all the old paint off,sanded it for 3hrs. Cleaned it up and I sprayed on the adhesion promoter and in places on the bezel it would turn white and cracks would appear. I have never seen anything like it before. I wet sanded the white spots and cracks with 220 and painted it and it turned out good. Anyone else run into the same problem?
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