LOL, I'm a little "bugged" right now. Just shot the paint on my "new" off topic daily driver (it's off topic, but the same thing usually happens when I paint ANYTHING), an '06 Mercury Milan. Actually, I call it a "Mil-usion" 'cause Fusion parts are much, much, MUCH cheaper, so it's wearing Fusion front sheet metal! Anyway, I shoot the color, two coats, covers fine, looks good. Let it flash off while I drink half a beer and fiddle around with the roadster a bit, then go shoot two coats of clear. Perfect. Wash the gun, clean up a little, and finish the beer I was working on (perfect way to time between coats). Go back out to admire my work after about 20 minutes, and Ladybug had lit on the (then) still tacky hood, and managed to drag itself down in a curly-que pattern right down the middle of the hood. By that time, the clear is no longer wet, and it's stuck but still wiggling around. No worries, I plucked it off with a pair of hemostats, and decided another coat of clear would heal all wounds. Which it did, but I then hung a little curtain on the right front just above the marker light, and then drug the hose on the bottom of the left lower corner of the bumper cover. ARRRGGGHHH. So it's all one color, and I guess it's a good excuse to color sand the newly painted front with and buff to get rid of the curtain, and scuffy mark. It'll look better wheeled anyway. Ah well, Happy Easter, everybody! Maybe I shoulda used tractor enamel after all...
Sounds like you made it all good in the end. Time flies like the wind, fruit flies like the banana, ladybugs like the clear-coat.
Who cares about a little ladybug? You ought to see a june bug doing back flips in a heavy last coat of clear.
Its the odor.I don't blame them.It smells so good that I usually roll around on fresh paint too.Maybe I breath too much of it.
For the same reason a dropped screw will bounce a half dozen times around the engine compartment, and go into the only open spark plug hole........ SAFU
theyre trying to look at themselves in the new glossy clearcoat, but theyre nearsighted and run into it.
I usally want to leave them in the clear and call them a hood ordement. I think it becomes a mascott for the car. Customers usally don't see my way of thinking. And yes I have had a large flying beatle do back flips in a hood. Hade to repaint sucks.
thats funny! on one of the first clear coat paint jobs i ever did, a big old "mock mosquito" got trapped in the last heavy coat on the hood. came back the next morning and his body was sunk into it. i was super-pissed but afraid to try and dig him out. went ahead and did a final sand and buff, if you knew where to look, you could see a perfect cross-section of his body.
It's an extension of Murphy's Law. You know,like the probability of a piece of toast falling jelly-side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
I'm not alone! I had a fly, upside down in the clear in the hood of my '41 Chevy. When I pulled it out, the wings stuck, submerged in clear. I polished over it. My buddies thought I should have painted a fly body between them. I DO think that insects are attracted to it, maybe the odor. They get buzzed (bad pun). I have to admit I kinda like it too...
For some reason they just love the stuff ,I painted a customers hood in the driveway 2 years ago ,Did it real early in the morning ,No bugs out ,Neighbors sleeping ,Bugs galore .......I made out ok flashed quick ,One bug was painted in the process ,But this color was flat black and a one shot deal...
Heres a bit of useless info for you. Insects are attracted to acetone organic compounds. A study was done in Africa to see what caused Teatsy flys to be attracted to farm animals that spread Malaria. They found that the livestocks breath was the source of the attraction and analized. the chemical component was acetone, something found in almost every paint or solevent. Fuck im a nerd...
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