Water Hose to Enhance Car Paint Gloss?

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(LOL. No hard feelins'. Hey, I'm Irish. What can I say?)

 

I used a double boiler and heated all of my rattle can paints when building models. It makes the paint flow much better than when it's cold and made for for beautiful final finishes. Should work the same for most paints.

 

That's what I was gonna say...putting a rattle can under hot running tap water for awhile or letting it sit in a bucket of hot water makes the final product MUCH better. Maybe it has the same effect through a gun. Seems to make the paint settle nice and evenly so you get good coverage without nearly as much of a chance of getting runs.

 

Never heard of this with auto enamel. Heard of it with my daughter's nail polish a few years back. It does work.

 

'50ChevySuburban, pretty picture in your avatar, buddy. Was that your ****ginwagon back when your made the ladies go OOooooooohhhhhhhh? LOL

Just joshin" !

 

My uncle was a drunk, he had a White 60 ford galaxie that the cops knew, so he painted it red.........then it rained and left poka dots all over it.

 

Yes and no, You still had to know how to pull the trigger on a spray gun, and lay down a full 50% overlap. If you didn't hustle, and the booth/shop had alot of cold air around the job, it was still possible to wind up with dry spray.

I once rebuilt a kitchen for a VW mechanic who used to do his own paint work. When I first looked at the job, and asked why he stopped doing his own paint, and now wanted me to do it, as well as rebuild his kitchen he said " for years I heated 2-3 16 once cans of black enamel (rattle cans) in a pot on the stove, or in my oven. One day I put four in the pot, and went back out to the shop. Just as I returned to check on them ,my kitchen exploded!" The blast blew every cabinet and fixture off the walls, and window frames out of their openings, as well! He got lucky in that he hadn't opened the door, just as the blast went off!
This was over twenty five years ago.

S****ey Devils C.C.
" Spending a nation into generational debt is not an act of comp***ion!"

 

Back in the old Lacquer days I used to put a few ounces of Castor oil in the paint. No color sanding needed and buffed to a near factory finish ( correct amount of orange peel)

 

I've been thinking about this for a while and wonder.....

Ever used a clay bar? Know how the stickiness sort of pulls things out that normal buffing can't, and how it does a really good job of removing oxides and polishing compounds alike?

A clay bar's surface isn't really that much different than skin. Obvious differences aside, very subtle abrasiveness and tack are present in both.

So maybe a literal hand rub would pull off minor oxides and hazing from the solidification process, or maybe just remove that last 1/2% of hazy compound that soap won't touch. Just thinking out loud, it's a curious subject

 

My old uncle Bill used dulux enamel paint he would put cup on top of the open flame dearborn heater in the booth and knock back a few brews spray a light coat drink 2 shlitz hot of co**** spray some more warm enamel .Then the same drill for about 2 more coats the he would let it dry till you could touch the paper on the car . Take it out side and run cold slow water on the damb car where he could deliver it to buy some more beer also seen the old dude do it with centari and montana hardner. I worked after school and summers for him he had several painters and bodymen that taught me all about life gee that will **** you up !! no they where really fun to learn from .

 

As I said, "I'm a bit concerned about fire."

Pimpin'Paint wrote: "I once rebuilt a kitchen for a VW mechanic who used to do his own paint work. When I first looked at the job, and asked why he stopped doing his own paint, and now wanted me to do it, as well as rebuild his kitchen he said " for years I heated 2-3 16 once cans of black enamel (rattle cans) in a pot on the stove, or in my oven. One day I put four in the pot, and went back out to the shop. Just as I returned to check on them ,my kitchen exploded!" The blast blew every cabinet and fixture off the walls, and window frames out of their openings, as well! He got lucky in that he hadn't opened the door, just as the blast went off!