Rob
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Hi there, sorry to bring up this old thread but i just wondered how you were getting on with the ws400 hd, are you getting better results with it?
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I’ve had good results useing fadeout thinner on small repairs, I know someone that doesnt use it at all and I know someone that uses normal 2k thinner, but I have yet to keep experiment with different things. What I have found is that if you are going to sand the edge is to make sure that the paint has fully cured, especially with clear as I’ve had it leave a white edge that I can’t get rid of. I sometimes found spot repairs come out well if I don’t sand the paint edge, just buff it when cured, as long as there is’nt a thick layer of paint and you get fadeout thinner on it straight away. I use a seperate paint with fadeout thinner in it and spray the edge straight away. I find this better than using an aerosol thinner.
If you use base and clear it should be easier to polish the clear edge than a colour edge as your nnot actually touching the blend. Like I said though I’m still a learner.Theres a couple of ways you could do it, I,m sure someone with more knowledge and experience than me may offer some advice on top of what I,m about to tell you.
Do the repair as you would, decide where you want new paint to end and sand around this area with 1500 grit. Spray just into the 1500 scratches with the paint and then spray fadeout thinner over your paint edge. buff the panel when the paint has cured. If you do it this way it helps if the colour is spot on to the original paint.Or you could get the colour in solid base coat. Flick in the colour as you would a metalic, spray clear past the edge of the colour and polish out the edge of the clear rather than the colour.
Hope this helps, like I said some else may chime in and offer more/better advice, i’m still a learner.
Cheers lads for warm welcome.