BMW Body work and paint restoration @ Diamond Collision - Avon, Indiana

[Clay]

IF you have orange peel, its there from the time you spray it until you remove it

 

[jmiller676]

Just take a regular orange and hold it next to your car and if the paint matches the texture on the orange, eat the orange and re-paint the car.

 

[DarkRose]

That looks very nice, think I know where my other baby is headed this spring to get a dent taken care of, and maybe some paint chip touchup...

You spray Dupont Emron also? As far as I remember, that's what's on mine now...

 

[Fenway]

Whatcha got?

That looks very nice, think I know where my other baby is headed this spring to get a dent taken care of, and maybe some paint chip touchup...

You spray Dupont Emron also? As far as I remember, that's what's on mine now...

 

[Clay]

I could be wrong, but I thought Emron was pretty much outlawed a while back. Way to unfriendly to the enviroment, lots of solids, and the only emron I ever messed with I thought was single stage as well.

 

[AllenM]

That looks very nice, think I know where my other baby is headed this spring to get a dent taken care of, and maybe some paint chip touchup...

You spray Dupont Emron also? As far as I remember, that's what's on mine now...

Imron is still available. Maybe reformulated some though. I have not sprayed that in years, probably 15 to 20 years.
Send my a pic of your car/truck though and let me see what you have

 

[DarkRose]

I've got a 1979 Fairmont Futura coupe with a fresh (15 year old) paintjob, garage stored, and just turned over 40k ORIGINAL miles.

Got into a little Wal-Mart incident (truck backed into me while I was sitting in the aisle waiting to park) and got a nasty dent in the rear driver's quarter.

Unfortunately, due to a medical incident, shortly after that I lost my job, so the insurance check for repairs went to rent and utilities instead...

Come tax time, she'll be fixed.

I'll shoot ya a couple pics if I can find them Allen.

 

[Fenway]

Had to search that one. Found it

 

[jmiller676]

/\ Check out those graphics!

 

[Fenway]

I think it's an alien space ship in the background

/\ Check out those graphics!

 

[jmiller676]

 

[DarkRose]

Had to search that one. Found it

That's pretty much what mine looks like, except for the red Mustang stripe along the bottom of the doors, can barely see the red pinstripe along the fender line and B pillar in that ad....

 

[straittactical]

when it dries you can see orange peel better i think. just use the lights behind you to reflect the paint. if it has the look of an orange peel. then it does not need to be repainted it just needs sanded and buffed. thats what we do to the million dollar motorhomes i paint.

 

[AllenM]

when it dries you can see orange peel better i think. just use the lights behind you to reflect the paint. if it has the look of an orange peel. then it does not need to be repainted it just needs sanded and buffed. thats what we do to the million dollar motorhomes i paint.

It will not orange peel when it dries,
Those pics are of it dry

 

[straittactical]

just curious how do you go about making your high metallic paints not mottle. I got on color at work that is a bitc* to spray. it is gray bronze. i can make it look real nice with a cup gun. but it mottles like hell with the pot gun. i cross coat it with a drop coat and still looks like A$$ so i get my cup gun out and put my last coat on . you got any suggestions

 

[AllenM]

use your cup gun...... seriously the pressure pot will put out too much material for some metallic. would really suck to paint a motor home with a cup gun but may be the only way unless you start experimenting with different fluid tips on the pot.

Turn down the internal pot pressure and get a tip that atomizes better would be what I would try first.

Single stage or 2 stage paint?

 

[straittactical]

wll here is the kicker. we got 46 minutes to blow of the motorhome, tack it off, pull it in the booth paint our color and bake it for 15 minutes. and these are 45 foot long and we put on 3 coats.
it is a 2 stage paint. 3 coats of base, 3 coats of clear. on my sata K3 (pot gun ) i have a 1.0 cap, my sata jet 2000 (cup gun ) has a 1.4 cap

 

[straittactical]

there is 3 of us in our booth forgot to mention that, well usually 2 because on dont like to come to work that often.

 

[AllenM]

thats harsh, Have you talked with SATA to see if they have any suggestions?

 

[-Rooster-]

I just wanted to compliment the great work on this car. That color from the factory is outstanding, and now it looks better than new. Allen, you can thank this thread for the quote request you received from me!