Anyone have any experience clearing bare metal?
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Looking to possibly flat clear my 89 mercedes 300e. Paint is in pretty bad shape so it will have to be stripped anyway. I’m going to have it soda blasted like all my other older projects I do. I’ve done my 64 triumph 650 in bare metal flat clear and had very good success. A car versus a bike will see a little more road and weather time and just curious if anyone has done a car like this with any issues. Chips rusting and delaminating clear are a couple of my worries.
well i’ve never done a car. bikes yes and with anything the major concern is a chip. rust will creep like cancer if you get a chip. you have to take car of them right away. harley had grinded metal on alot of their custom paint sets for a few years then stopped. i think they had to warranty just about every one of them. they would have rust forming under the clear. they paid me to repaint one set that they replace for a guy 3 times. you could see complete rusty handprints under the clear. this kind of finish needs to be done in a very low humidity environment if your going pull it off. another problem i see here with your “formula for sucess” is the soda blasting. we just had a thread here the other day on it. you need to completely sand, clean and wash the metal with water to get the film off or your paint is going to peel off in sheets. now the problem is your introducing water to a situation where you dont even want humidity in the air.
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