black paint
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i need some advice,,
i have painted a number of black cars mainly restorations and i keep having problems with the paint scratching when you touch it. what can i do about this??? i have tried wax the nicest soft towels i even tried glasurit scratch resistant clear nothing works!!! what are you guys doing or is this normalTry a single stage urethane.Maybe your paint isn’t cured?
Thats just black for ya. Black is very hard to keep clean as soon as you wipe down the car and wash it theres scratches every were. :chair
thanks for your input.
but i am really looking for someone who has experianced what i am going through. i have not used much single stage, years ago i painted a black car in imron i dont rember it scratching as easy ..
but after 300 hrs in bodywork and blocking you hate to practice with new paint..
i am currently using glasurit clear coat 923-450
Sorry woody, but Mac is right. black shows all the little micro scratches better than any other color. Glaso 450 clear is nice but it is a softer clear. it will scratch a little easier, but when it does it will buff out easier too.
i realize it shows more than any other color. but there must be a solution to this. is single stage a better choice for black
Generally speaking, single stage is a more durable paint. I use it on any type of work truck or fleet vehicles that i do. If you do get a scratch in single stage it doesnt appear as white, the scratch will be the color of the vehicle, which makes it not so noticable. As for applying single stage paint. IMO i think its easier to spray than base clear and is less time consuming. Just apply like a primer and keep your paint wet. I have done some beautiful paint jobs in single stage and you would never know that it wasent base/clear.
I know your troubles…and there are more than one problems for scratches on black paint…
As a Detailer,I can say to You: Single stage or Clearcoated,is not much different…As someone has writed indeed ,Black is an infamous colour that show you everything pretty well and with great pleasure…
There’s no difference between an hard or a soft Black surface… twice can suffer even the simple touch of your hands and become dull and cloudy to the eyes….It’s only an optical effect in this case…Talking about buffing,a soft surface can tend to appear much better with less efforts than with an hard clearcoated one…
Remember these things as a bible with Black paint:
Always use new and soft quality MF towels (70/30 if not 75/25)Alway prep the surface to be buffered with a previous wash,claybarring and rinsing after treatment
(it’s better to dry with compressed air and a towel that have to touch the surface but not stripe over it)
Always use perfectly clean buffing pads and keep it clean during the session (compounding specially)
Change frequently towels during removal of the product residues,as the compound or polish particles in fibers,can will be hard after a little simply by the air action on it…And this means to scratch again the surface buffed minutes before…
At the hand of the work…take a breath and apply a coat of a good wax (BETTER IF NOT HARD PASTE TYPE)…Choise something that is simple to remove after cure and not less important NEW SOFT TOWEL again…….
Hope to be of help Mate… :rock
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