need advice on what i should do now

[minichopp]

well first i would like to say how much help this site has been to me, ive learned alot being a newbee to all this. ive been building a mini chopper and i used a sherwin williams pearl orange and it came out like crap, so i went ahead and ordered the hok tangelo orange with uc-35 clear and lime green pearl powder for the ghost flames. what i wanted to know is what should i do with the paint i already sprayed on the bike, should i sand it back down to bare metal and start all over or what should i do? oh yeah and let me just tell everybody that the sherwin williams paint was $150 more than the hok. once i get it down to bare metal how many coats of primer should i spraY AND WHAT KIND OF PRIMER SHOULD I USE? should i use a filler primer, or a sandable primer, or should i use both, or is there something else i should do? thanx /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/think.gif

 

[flamethrower]

Sand her down and start from scratch. That way you don't have to worry about the first job screwing up the next one. If the first job didn't come out right, then maybe it would cause problems with the way the HOK adheres. Don't risk it.
Just my .02 worth. Good luck. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cheers.gif

 

[minichopp]

what grit sandpaper should i use, so i dont get swirl marks in the paint?

 

[flamethrower]

If you're going down to metal, use 80 grit on a DA and take her down, if you aren't going to metal and are sure of the base coat being good, then rough it up with 1200 and go for it. I think it depends on how screwed up the Sherwin Williams job was. I would take it to metal and then epoxy primer it. Maybe someone else will chime in with different advice, but I try to remove all chance of Murphyisms. To me, it's just too much work and expense to shoot over an untrustworthy base. You could end up having to do it all over again. What ever you decide, don't forget to <font color="red"> flame </font> it! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

 

[minichopp]

thanx 4 ur help, im gonna take it down to bare metal cause i dont trust the sherwin williams. this is my first job so im sure ill have more ???? ill post pics when im done, it should look pretty hot when its done, with the tangelo orange and the lime green pearl ghost flames. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/peace.gif

 

[Jim]

Flamethrower,Did you really mean to say 1200 grit?I always thought you had to go with 400 or so to give it something to bite to.

 

[flamethrower]

I think it depends on whether you're going to shoot primer or some other fill coat on top of the existing basecoat. If not, I wouldn't go any coarser than 1200. Maybe I'm thinking wrong on this. If it were me, I'd take it down to bare metal and start over from scratch.

 

[LudicrousSpeed]

It depends. Do you really want to risk all the time (for a second time, and perhaps a third) invested to put a nice paint job down, only to have to redo it again(again!)

I'd strip it.......

 

[minichopp]

yeah thats what im doing, im taking it back down to bare metal and redoing the whole thing. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/foreheadslap.gif