By
Les Chung
http://www.nodents.com
Paint
Touch Up Shortcuts
If you intend
to be or are already a Paint
Touch Up tech, this info
will be very useful to you.
Now
Paint Touch up is somewhat
like witchcraft, because there
is alot to it, or at least
to do it well.
Now Im not going to go into
how to perform Paint Touch
up, but here are some quick
touch up tricks to help you
get down the road a bit easier.
1) Scratches.
If you have a clear coat scratch,
and the damage is NOT into
the basecoat, try this: brush
some clear coat into the scratch,
INSTEAD of paint. You will
guarantee a color match, and
it will not look so thick..hint-
you can thin the clear coat
out too for an even better
appearance!
2) Key
scratches. Now if you
have a non metallic/pearl
paint color key scratch, this
is easy- take your paint,
use a thickening agent, swab
in, let it cure/dry, then
block down and buff.
Now if you have a metallic
or pearl color, not so easy,
because the micas wont spread
out the same as a non metallic
color, and the tint/flop etc
will not match, regardless
of how well the paint matches.
If you have any base color
left in the scratch, you are
better off usually adding
clear and cutting/buffing
that instead of adding color,
otherwise, airbrush or blending
is the next step-forget brush
touching color...
3) Transfers.
One simple answer- Laquer
thinner. Done.
Hope that
helped, and keep on paint
touchin' !
Happy Pushing!
Les Chung
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