Need help with wrinkling substrate under base/clear
I am having fits with the base/clear Lesonal paint which I purchased for the roadster pickup, wrinkling the substrate when I spray it on previously bodyworked and primed panels. I am at the point now where I am real gunshy about painting the peices that I have left (front fenders and cowl and splash aprons),and repaint of the botched up grillshell and tailgate as they have all been extensively bodyworked and primed. Is there a good quality sealer (perhaps epoxy primer?) that I can spray on my remaining peices to ensure that they don't wrinkle when I paint them with base/clear? I need something that will absolutely seal the substrates from the reducer in the yellow base coat.--- I would prefer something that can be sprayed, left to flash off for a couple of hours, then sprayed over without sanding.---I've sanded as much as I really want to.---if that is not feasible, then something that cures for a week, then only needs to be lightly scuffed with a Scotchbrite pad---I'm getting kind of desperate here.---The darn stuff doesn't wrinkle consistently, but any wrinkling is not acceptable in a car that I have this much time and money into. I love the paint--when it goes on without wrinkling it sprays easy, has a beautifull gloss, and is everything that you would want a paint to be. Probably much of the fault is mine, as I have used various primers over the last year---laquer based primer, high solids primer, even rattlecan primer---bad on me, shoulda known better. Now I gotta get out of this fix, so hope a sealer will save my __ss
Re: Need help with wrinkling substrate under base/clear
Sounds like you are sufferiing from 'bounce', where the solvents work in, and then out. If the surface cures before the solvents work back out, it wrinkles.
When I had this happen it looked like a spider web.
The solution was/is to fix the surface and let it set a while. Then apply the next coat as lightly as possible...just a dusting...and walk away and let it cure. No thick coats. Just light coats.
Solved my problem and slowed me down a bit (when it counted)
Jeff:cool:
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Originally posted by brianrupnow
I am having fits with the base/clear Lesonal paint which I purchased for the roadster pickup, wrinkling the substrate when I spray it on previously bodyworked and primed panels. I am at the point now where I am real gunshy about painting the peices that I have left (front fenders and cowl and splash aprons),and repaint of the botched up grillshell and tailgate as they have all been extensively bodyworked and primed. Is there a good quality sealer (perhaps epoxy primer?) that I can spray on my remaining peices to ensure that they don't wrinkle when I paint them with base/clear? I need something that will absolutely seal the substrates from the reducer in the yellow base coat.--- I would prefer something that can be sprayed, left to flash off for a couple of hours, then sprayed over without sanding.---I've sanded as much as I really want to.---if that is not feasible, then something that cures for a week, then only needs to be lightly scuffed with a Scotchbrite pad---I'm getting kind of desperate here.---The darn stuff doesn't wrinkle consistently, but any wrinkling is not acceptable in a car that I have this much time and money into. I love the paint--when it goes on without wrinkling it sprays easy, has a beautifull gloss, and is everything that you would want a paint to be. Probably much of the fault is mine, as I have used various primers over the last year---laquer based primer, high solids primer, even rattlecan primer---bad on me, shoulda known better. Now I gotta get out of this fix, so hope a sealer will save my __ss