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TAguy16
I painted the underside of a decklid the other day with Nason Fulthane single stage urethane and didn't get the smooth glossy look I'm used to with the this paint. Instead I got a dull looking finish with a very fine texture to it (not orange peel - finer than that) and a LOTof debris in the finish. I usually seal my work with SPI epoxy but I didn't have any left in the color I wanted to use so I sealed it with thinned down 2K primer that I lightly sanded with 500 grit and then cleaned with SPI waterborn cleaner and let sit for several hours - then I tacked the whole thing off right before spraying. I sprayed two medium light coats then one or two medium wet coats to level out the finish. It was very warm in the paint area.
I mixed the paint 8-1-2 (I used medium reducer to try to speed things up since I was spraying such a small area) like I always do and strained it before spraying so I'm at a loss where all the debris that ended up in the paint job came from (there was big chunks of it), although I'm almost positive it came out of the gun. The hardner I used was probably getting towards the end of it's life but it still poured freely into the mixing container. Also the SPI wax and grease remover I used (that was given to me by someone else) had turned brown, so I've been wondering if it's still okay to use. I cleaned my gun out with gun cleaner several weeks ago so I suppose there's the possibility something is just now coming out of it that got loosened up by that that hasn't shown up until now.
Those are the only things I can think of that might have caused the problem, but I would appreciate any other thoughts on the matter on more things I might need to look into to improve my results in the future.
I mixed the paint 8-1-2 (I used medium reducer to try to speed things up since I was spraying such a small area) like I always do and strained it before spraying so I'm at a loss where all the debris that ended up in the paint job came from (there was big chunks of it), although I'm almost positive it came out of the gun. The hardner I used was probably getting towards the end of it's life but it still poured freely into the mixing container. Also the SPI wax and grease remover I used (that was given to me by someone else) had turned brown, so I've been wondering if it's still okay to use. I cleaned my gun out with gun cleaner several weeks ago so I suppose there's the possibility something is just now coming out of it that got loosened up by that that hasn't shown up until now.
Those are the only things I can think of that might have caused the problem, but I would appreciate any other thoughts on the matter on more things I might need to look into to improve my results in the future.