Help, paint is running with clear coat?????

[skywarp]

Help,

painted some parts a few days ago, and i clear coated them today, and the clear coat made the paint run????? what happened????? The regular paint was dry, but when i added the clear it made messed it all up??

I used reagular automotive paint and Dupli clear. Was that a bad combination????


any shed some light on this??

 

[paranoidTSi]

did you use primer?

 

[skywarp]

Yeah i primered it.

should i use a different brand of clear? any suggestions??

 

[TurboBlue]

primer has ntohing to do with it. It was just a chemical reaction between the two paints. By regular automotive paint do you mean like a urethane paint froma base/clear sytem?

You do have to get paints that work with one another. I'm pretty sure what you had is just a bad chemical reaction. Sand it all down again and get some paints that work together, Good luck

 

[skywarp]

Im not sure what type of paint it is, i just went down to the paint shop looked for a color i liked and they made me a spray can of the paint.

its says dupont chromabase paint.
They are closed tomarrow, but do you think the Fusion clear might work??

 

[Tsi_User]

I'd reccomend using paint from the same company. I did this for my interior and my valve cover/bov and it worked like a charm

 

[SurgeGT]

maybe you need to post pics to clear things up..but are you saying your color was fine when you sprayed the clear and now its running after you cleared it? the color or the clear?

if the clear is running..thats normal...well..not normal..you did it wrong...but MOST of the runs you see in a base/clear paint job is in the clear. its REALLLY hard to run the color coat in a base/clear. i mean you really gotta suck at painting. anyway. clears are thinner than color coats..you dont really apply them the same way you apply the color.

either way...you did it wrong

if the run is in the clear..you can color sand it down. (use a wet 1200..around there is fine...1500 if youre really worried about cutting through. if youre good and careful, 1000) then buff that bad boy shiney!

 

[brcewane]

I had a similar problem a while ago.. I used an automotive paint I picked up from a auto body supplies store and painted my enclosure with it... A couple of days later I then decided to go and pick up a can of clear at a local store and didn't think there would be any problem.

After I put the clear on, the paint got all "gummy"... it was totally a bad chemical reaction. I couldn't even sand it off because it would never get hard.. even after a week. I ended up having to take the paint and clearcoat off with a heat gun and a scraper... then re-sand paint and get a clear that matched the paint.

 

[TurboBlue]

you already stated your problem...

You used Dupont Chroma Base with a spray can clear...that just wont work. You'd really need to go back to the paint shop and get a spray can of Chroma Clear mixed up too...then you shouldnt have any problems. But its most deffinately the fact that the paints just didnt adhear to each other...

 

[skywarp]

Thanks guys for the replies.

It was the color that ran when i put the clear on. Im gonna go get some clear from the paint shop tomarrow.

The fusion plastic primer, do you think that had to do anything with it? Or is that fine to use?