How To Avoid Tiger Stripe In Metallic Car Paint
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Topic: How to avoid tiger stripes? Posted: Apr/22/2016 at 5:50pm
I am painting my 65 Rambler, getting ready to practice the body, and this is the first time I accept always taken on a whole machine, so I am super-nervous.
Information technology'due south a two-tone with a white roof, which I have already done, and noticed the "tiger stripes", which I think will vitrify out once I get there.
I accept also primed the trunk and gotten tiger striping.
I have to assume it is my technique because I am a newbie and my gear is good. Any tips on how to avert this when I get to the paint?
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Post Options Thanks(0) QuoteReply Posted: Apr/22/2016 at 6:07pmIf you're getting tiger stripes even with solid colors and primer, then your gun is desperately out of aligning, or the nozzle is partly plugged.
Your gun has a fan width adjustment. I don't accept any idea what gun you are using, and then I can't tell you lot where the fan adjustment is. Some take it below the fluid( top) adjustment, some have it on the side.
Tape a piece of paper on the wall, adjust your fan ( width of the spray pattern ) until you take even coverage. The fan will adjust from 1 small round area, to 2 areas with spray on each edge of the pattern and little in the middle ( that sounds similar what you've got). You need to arrange the fan to somewhere in betwixt those two extremes.
If your gun is new, and you've still got the instructions that come up with information technology, read them.
This problem can also exist cause by a dirty nozzle, or a damaged nozzle, crappy gun, or too much pressure level. Or a fatal combination of all the above.
Another possibility is y'all may be spraying without overlap, or with too much.
When I'yard spraying paint, if I have a fan pattern that 1 foot wide, I overlap the next coat about 6 inches. Almost 1/2 fan width.
Watch some spraying videos on U-Tube. They can't injure. Edited past tyrodtom - Apr/22/2016 at vi:18pm
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Mail service Options Thanks(0) QuoteReply Posted: Apr/22/2016 at 10:54pmsome other way to avert tiger strips is on the last coat thin the paint a little more than and so back off the surface to nearly one ane/2 feet to ii anxiety motion a long realy fast going dorsum and along this assist even out the coat and let the paint flow evenly this is also a mothed of shooting metalic paint
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Postal service Options Thanks(0) QuoteReply Posted: April/23/2016 at 8:12amThe way to avert tiger stripes in solid colors is non to get them in the first place.
If you're getting tiger stripes in solid color something is seriously wrong with your spraygun, or technique, or both. Right the problem, not apply a crutch later.
Putting on a dry final coat will only end upwards with a short lived, tiresome paint chore. That dry last glaze will be porous and open to early on oxidation.
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Mail service Options Thanks(0) QuoteReply Posted: Apr/25/2016 at 10:55pmP.S. "Tiger stripes" won't buff out.
The advice to a higher place is spot on. Practise practice exercise, especially if you lot are doing an metallics. If y'all are getting it in primer, y'all demand the practice (no offense, just sound advice!)
Y'all can fifty-fifty simply put water through your gun and spray on large sections of paper on the wall if need be, or exercise with cheap primer.
Try painting the kids wagon, or metal garbage can, an old hood, whatever yous got.
The primal thing to remember in Whatsoever paintjob, it's not what you do at the end, it'south what you lot practise at the outset...and so from blank metallic through bodywork through last paint, each footstep must be right or you won't exist able to properly hide/save it with the next step.
Yous can do information technology, watch some videos, ask around, do! Proficient luck!
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Mail service Options Thank you(0) QuoteAnswer Posted: May/08/2016 at two:47pmUpdate: many of your tips actually helped! The car turned out awesome.
Thanks all!
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Mail service Options Thanks(0) QuoteReply Posted: May/09/2016 at 1:42amAt present we need pics of the machine.
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Post Options Thanks(0) QuoteReply Posted: May/09/2016 at six:03amI don't have enough posts to be able to attach pictures :-(
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Post Options Thank you(0) QuoteReply Posted: May/09/2016 at viii:18amYes you practice!
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