Had a guy at the shop that was refered to us, and was having problems with the painter that was doing his car. After all the horror stories this guy has had and the car being at this guys shop for almost a year his painter who was on his 4th attempt at flaking the car finally gave the excuse..... "THE FLAKE IS COMMING OUT OF THE GUN UPSIDE DOWN, CAUSING IT TO BUNCH UP IN AREAS" I thought I was hearing thing and could not help myself and laughed at this one. He then had a couple of pics of the job and it is bad, probably the worst tiger striping i have ever seen. Any way had to share that one. SO be carefull of upsidedown flake.
What would you think the problem was? I have heard many a painter talk about the problems of shooting flake.
He should of used A, universal velocity side mount whatyoumacallit sprayer, mine works every time ...........
That's the problem with flake it's always coming out upside down. I have tried for years to fix the problem, but have not come up with anything yet. I have even flipped the car over in the booth, but even that gave me poor results.
Hotrod --Most common problem with flake is to small of a needle in the gun for the size flake and no aggitation of the flake in the cup. There are guns just for flake but a lot of guys do not do enuff flake to justify buying a specialty gun. Farmboat-- Now we got to get the itty bitty tweezers out and turn all the flake, HaHaHa Thats funny
The flake is not upside down, it's for the other side of the car! DUH It would be right side up if it were painted in China.
You just have to take a large refrigerator magnet and run it across the "metal" flake in the same direction to turn it all over.
put some butter on the other side of each flake..it will land on that side every time...and look fabulous
You actual shoot flake a little different. Instead of shooting it at the surface you want flaked, you shoot straight up above the surface. By shooting up in the air the flake will gently glide/float slowly (like a feather) and land on the surface to be flaked.
... that's the best advice ever, butter the bottom side of the flake, everyone knows stuff always lands butter side down
Tiger striping is usually due to bad overlap, but like magic said aggitation and nozzle sizeis a serious consideration with big flake. Also If you lay it down really wet the flake can have a chance to float round and bunch up. It's not the easiest stuff to paint, admittedly
Reminds me of an old joke. A forman was watching his new guy driving nails and about every third nail he would toss over his shoulder. "What the hell are you doing?" he asked. "Those nails have the heads on the wrong end", he replied. "Well dont throw'em away", said the forman. "We can use them on the other side of the house!"
It was Aussie flake from Tasmania, thus the Tasmanian Tiger stripes - when in doubt blame the Aussies - I do!
One time I was shooting some pearl and the pearl kept rolling off... I finally had to use some of that oblong pearl to get it to stay...
I have had great luck with my process . I paint the car with extra thick paint so it takes a good while to dry . After I finish painting the car I take a handfull of the flake and sprinkle it all over the wet paint and get any design or pattern I want to . With the thick wet paint the flakes sink into the paint and it comes out great ! This method is so good if you miss a spot you just grab another hadfull of flake and fill in the bad spots you miss ! It's really not that hard to do !
I get all my flake from Harbor Freight and I use a dryer sheet to prep the car. Never had any problems.
that guy should have stayed at a Holiday Inn Express the night befor he shoot the flake..... everything would be alright then
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