Seems I have wet sanded through my CC with 2000grit

Thejoyofdriving said:
I detail cars and I get paid, there for I am a pro detailer.
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Sorry man, but I get paid for side details and I'm not even pro at all, but I do as best as I can. I'm still learning and learning everyday. People can get paid for a crappy detail job, but that doesn't make them professional.
 
Well since you are going ahead with this ANYWAY and not going to take the honest and well intended advice from myself as well as whay others have provided I suggest the following:

The area you are "touching up" will not blend well with the orig. paint.. May as well sand the whole darn car down - clear coat *gone* - Paint *gone* grab your touch up paint a bottle of spray paint some clear and go to town..

Sorry had to go there

BTW: getting paid to do something doesn't make you a pro.. ever paid someone to do something and it comes out like cow dung?? Yeah, they were pro's as well right??

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If you call yourself a "pro" because you got paid to detail, you should give the money back and show your customers how much of a "pro" you are with your sand job.

While we're on your profile subject, in another post, you said you've been driving for 2 years now. So you started driving when you were 23? Interesting, Mr. Pro Detailer. :applause:
 
I am going to ask one more time that each of you behave in a manner appropriate for the forum. We are not here to to name call, please consider helping him or simply leave the post and find another were you can add value to the forum.
 
tod071 said:
If you call yourself a "pro" because you got paid to detail, you should give the money back and show your customers how much of a "pro" you are with your sand job.

While we're on your profile subject, in another post, you said you've been driving for 2 years now. So you started driving when you were 23? Interesting, Mr. Pro Detailer. :applause:
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I started driving at 15 1/2, I am now afew months over 17. so thats about 2 1/2 years. Back on topic. I went to my local craft store and bought a air brush, it appears that the touchup paint is too viscous for the air brush to spray effectively. I returned the air brush and i think i am going to get a more expensive one which will hopefuly create a finner spray. Also another thought is to mix the paint with some sort of chemical that will make the paint thinner and evaporate when sprayed, but i have to make sure that it does not mess up the paint.

Thank you killr.
 
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Thejoyofdriving said:
I started driving at 15 1/2, I am now afew months over 17. so thats about 2 1/2 years. Back on topic. I went to my local craft store and bought a air brush, it appears that the touchup paint is too viscous for the air brush to spray effectively. I returned the air brush and i think i am going to get a more expensive one which will hopefuly create a finner spray. Also another thought is to mix the paint with some sort of chemical that will make the paint thinner and evaporate when sprayed, but i have to make sure that it does not mess up the paint.

Thank you killr.
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I'm being honest in saying take it to a pro-body shop, some of us are actually trying to help, re-sanding what you've done is only going to make it worse....your not skilled to get the paint/clear to blend plain and simple. I'm not saying that to be rude either, that pic is also hard to tell how big the damage is, can you get a pic further away to show it?
 
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May I ask - is that the car in the avatar? What did your parents say?
 
Surfer said:
I'm being honest in saying take it to a pro-body shop, some of us are actually trying to help, re-sanding what you've done is only going to make it worse....your not skilled to get the paint/clear to blend plain and simple. I'm not saying that to be rude either.
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I hear you. I am not re-sanding that area because i know it will cause more damage. It might look big in the pic but its really only 2mm wide. Im not sure how much it would cost for a shop to do it but i can imagine like 100 bucks. I like to work on my car to, so taking it to the shop would be no fun, at least by doing it myself i am gaining knowledge and learning. when I feel that I have passed beyond my capabilities then to the shop i go. for now I feel it is going good.
 
Thejoyofdriving said:
I hear you. I am not re-sanding that area because i know it will cause more damage. It might look big in the pic but its really only 2mm wide. Im not sure how much it would cost for a shop to do it but i can imagine like 100 bucks. I like to work on my car to, so taking it to the shop would be no fun, at least by doing it myself i am gaining knowledge and learning. when I feel that I have passed beyond my capabilities then to the shop i go. for now I feel it is going good.
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In all sincerity I wish you the best of luck and hope it turns out well!
 
I'll be posting updates every few hours to let you guys know how its going.
 
Heres what i started out with.

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after wet sanding:

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Now(not finished)

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I have been using alcohol to remove the extra touch up paint instead of sand paper. But Im not sure if its good for the CC. What do you guys use.
 
Alcohol?????

Standard Alcohol shouldn't be removing touchup paint. It won't hurt a clearcoat and is OK to use to clean the surface between coats of touchup paint. If alcohol removes touchup paint, then it hasn't cured enough. There's a thread about a Black 540 hood touchup Todd from Trop Detailing did and you should read it. I was there for the process, and it takes a good deal more touchup paint than you would imagine to fill the scratch. Unassisted, it will take about 8 hours between layers of touchup paint for the previous coat to cure hard enough to sand. When Todd was sanding, he would sand about 3 strokes with the 2000 grit paper( he would have preferred 3000 but couldn't get any on a Sunday) and then clean it off and check, sand some more and check. when he thouht he was satisfied, he would polish. If he didin't like the results, he would apply some more paint and cure it and sand some more til it buffed our perfect. Black is a tough color to work on, but the key was PATIENCE. We shortened the cure time by using a simple hairdryer on low to help the paint cure. Even then, it was about an hour between layers of paint. All told, it took about 8 coats of TU paint to blend out perfectly. I have kids about your age, and patience took a lot of FU'd projects for them to learn the right way to do some things. Now that they have gotten older, I seem to have gotten smarter and now they listen at least a little. You are getting good advice from the members here, you too should listen.

DAL
 
DAL1955 said:
Standard Alcohol shouldn't be removing touchup paint. It won't hurt a clearcoat and is OK to use to clean the surface between coats of touchup paint. If alcohol removes touchup paint, then it hasn't cured enough. There's a thread about a Black 540 hood touchup Todd from Trop Detailing did and you should read it. I was there for the process, and it takes a good deal more touchup paint than you would imagine to fill the scratch. Unassisted, it will take about 8 hours between layers of touchup paint for the previous coat to cure hard enough to sand. When Todd was sanding, he would sand about 3 strokes with the 2000 grit paper( he would have preferred 3000 but couldn't get any on a Sunday) and then clean it off and check, sand some more and check. when he thouht he was satisfied, he would polish. If he didin't like the results, he would apply some more paint and cure it and sand some more til it buffed our perfect. Black is a tough color to work on, but the key was PATIENCE. We shortened the cure time by using a simple hairdryer on low to help the paint cure. Even then, it was about an hour between layers of paint. All told, it took about 8 coats of TU paint to blend out perfectly. I have kids about your age, and patience took a lot of FU'd projects for them to learn the right way to do some things. Now that they have gotten older, I seem to have gotten smarter and now they listen at least a little. You are getting good advice from the members here, you too should listen.


DAL
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The cure time for my touch up paint is 2hrs, atleast thats what they say. Thanks
for the advice. do you have a link? Also remember, I always listen, always, after I listen i make a decision. Remember there is a diffrence from listening to people and doing what they say. Take another look at the before and after, i think its going good so far. Again thank you. :)
 
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man JoD rocks. Why would he take it to a body shop? That's weak, that would be giving up. He can fix it, just keep trying new stuff, thats how you learn anyways. Try everything, if you fail try again, if you suceed take note. All these people are leading you in the wrong direction by telling you to take it to a body shop. Who cares what happens, its a friggin carm you're 17 or whatever, you will have plenty of other cars the rest of your life. If you destroy a panel of paint who cares! Drive the car off a cliff and call it a day collect the insurance buy something else. Screw it all. People taking this crap way too seriously.

Anyways, if you get paid to do something, then technically you are a professional at that thing. Now there may be different levels of professionals.
 
Your first two pics are in some sort of direct lighting, albeit not the best, but lighting none the less. However, the last one is in basically the dark, and doesn't show anything but shadows, take one in the sun so we can see what it looks like.
 
1200 watt halogens arent enough, ok? well the point of the mid way point shot was to just give people an idea of where i am. When the final repair is done i will bring out the 1200 watt halogens.
 
IMO you should have been using the halogens all along. The pictures don't show much. When / if you decided to use the halogens while working, you'll be able to tell how your work is coming ... working by your naked eye doesn't cut it when you are doing this type of work.
 
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