Mike Phillips
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Orange Peel in Fresh Paint
There's a number of different reasons why wetsanding is used in the automotive detailing and body shop industries and some of these reason are to remove,
Over the years I've always found that people want to learn how to wetsand paint and everything that goes with the process. So at our detailing classes here at Autogeek this is one of the topics we cover. Sometimes we use hoods, sometimes rental cars and while these are great ways to learn and practice nothing beats the real deal.
Here's our project car for the next detailing class, it's a 1928 Model A with a fresh singe stage Urethane paint job and it has varying degrees of orange peel in the paint. The worst area is the hood but it's everywhere.
There's also dieback, solvent popping, dirt in paint and irregular surface texture plus overspray.
Here's a few pictures taken using a few different camera settings to document the current condition. In a number of shots you'll see a U.S. Quarter. The quarter is for both reference to give you an idea of the size of the hills and valleys that make up orange peel and to also give my camera a focus point to enable me to capture the surface of the paint in focus.
For reference of where I'm taking the shots, there's a U.S. Quarter on the hood.
Hills and Valleys
The bumpy textured appearance you see showing around the perimeter of the florescent light reflecting off the paint is called Orange Peel. It's kind of like millions of hills and valleys with high spots and low spots.
Flash on shots...
Flash off shots...
This is the same place you see the lights reflecting off the fender in the above picture. There's less orange peel on this fender than on the hood but it's still noticeable.
Below is a quarter on the rumble seat deck lid.
Dirt in Paint
That spec you see to the lower right of the quarter is a piece of dirt in the paint also called Dirt in Paint or DIP
Dieback
This is a cropped out section of the above pictures and in this shot you can see Dieback which is where the paint has shrunk back into the sanding prep marks made in the primer when the primer was sanded to rough it up for good paint adhesion.
There's a number of different reasons why wetsanding is used in the automotive detailing and body shop industries and some of these reason are to remove,
- Orange Peel
- Dirt in paint
- Surface Texture
- Solvent Popping
- Dieback
Over the years I've always found that people want to learn how to wetsand paint and everything that goes with the process. So at our detailing classes here at Autogeek this is one of the topics we cover. Sometimes we use hoods, sometimes rental cars and while these are great ways to learn and practice nothing beats the real deal.
Here's our project car for the next detailing class, it's a 1928 Model A with a fresh singe stage Urethane paint job and it has varying degrees of orange peel in the paint. The worst area is the hood but it's everywhere.
There's also dieback, solvent popping, dirt in paint and irregular surface texture plus overspray.
Here's a few pictures taken using a few different camera settings to document the current condition. In a number of shots you'll see a U.S. Quarter. The quarter is for both reference to give you an idea of the size of the hills and valleys that make up orange peel and to also give my camera a focus point to enable me to capture the surface of the paint in focus.
For reference of where I'm taking the shots, there's a U.S. Quarter on the hood.
Hills and Valleys
The bumpy textured appearance you see showing around the perimeter of the florescent light reflecting off the paint is called Orange Peel. It's kind of like millions of hills and valleys with high spots and low spots.
Flash on shots...
Flash off shots...
This is the same place you see the lights reflecting off the fender in the above picture. There's less orange peel on this fender than on the hood but it's still noticeable.
Below is a quarter on the rumble seat deck lid.
Dirt in Paint
That spec you see to the lower right of the quarter is a piece of dirt in the paint also called Dirt in Paint or DIP
Dieback
This is a cropped out section of the above pictures and in this shot you can see Dieback which is where the paint has shrunk back into the sanding prep marks made in the primer when the primer was sanded to rough it up for good paint adhesion.
