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[Beautiful]

My husband is painting a 98 Heritage Softail. He's at the flame stage. He's done the primer, sealer, base coat (black) and cleared that. He taped the flames out, cleaned and dried the paintable surface area's and upon shooting the color of the flames (purple) the paint started lifting in a few small spots (not orange peel) that went all the way down to the primer. He wet sanded those area's then cleaned again and re-taped in the area's that needed it. He sprayed again and upon drying the spots came back bigger. Can you give an idea as to what this might be from?

 

[TAZ]

It appears that the basecoat that you are applying for the flames is too "aggressive" for the black paint that you are spraying over. When this happens, the paint eats into the original basecoat and "lifts" the paint.

This happens sometimes when you spray an enamal base, then try spraying a basecoat or lacquer over it.

You might want to try a faster thinner or reducer. This will help it dry quicker before it gets a chance to eat into the paint.

If you can't get paint to stay down, I can give you an estimate on redoing it. I would need to restrip it down, and start over and use PPG bascoats and clearcoats.
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[tooter]

what are all the items u using? if it basecoat-expoy primer ? i ahd a base coat paint try that with me once i burned the paint job whike buffing it so i wet sanded my fender and thought that i would apply some paint then clear it but the base lifted,so what i had to do was sand it again 800 on the spot that lifted a feather edge it then u take your base and lightly dust it sort of dryspaying it till it takes with out busting the let it dry mabye 30 40min then applied 1 takey coat of clear let get tacky then applied 2 more normal coats of clear .