aerosol

hi my front bumper has been sprayed with aerosol paint. Does these have to be removed or is there a primer that can go over this so that it can be sprayed by a paint shop cheers j

aerosol

Any idea what aerosol, bear in mind you can get pretty much anything put into a can.

double acrilyic (i think its how its spelt) brought from wilco

You could probably wipe it off with a tin of paint thinners.. Then apply a good plasticized primer.

I take it this was something you did then, as you seem to know what type of paint and where it came from?

Try to remove as much of the paint as possible.If you dont,after the flat colour is applied over the new primer,it could react with the old paint:run,sag maybe not dry properly.If it doesnt happen with the flat colour,it might happen when the top laquer coat is applied.I know this from past experience with my own bumper.Get it as free of old paint as you can.Good luck.

just gav would the thinners damage the fibre glass

just gav would the thinners damage the fibre glass

It shouldn't.. depends I personally use Lechler paint products and that hasn't affect any fibreglass or plastic that I've tried i on. It did however just pull some cheapy halfrods primer off a helmet I was doing for a for a friend when I wiped it over with thinners before spraying.

Just wet flat the whole thing with 800 w&d any flakey bits will flake off and then you can flat the edge down. dry it all off and prime the whole bumper if poss, this will seal it. then guide coat and flat it down again then paint it.

Jw&d any flakey bits

Gaijin PS : Make sure WD40 and other silicon products don't go near the paint.

Considering I've just woken up and haven't even had my first cuppa, I read that as wd40 for some reason and panicced...

 

Gaijin PS : Make sure WD40 and other silicon products don't go near the paint.

NOOOOOOOOOO DO NOT use WD40 it will not help at all w&d=wet and dry paper.

NOOOOOOOOOO DO NOT use WD40 it will not help at all w&d=wet and dry paper.

Actually you are a full time spray man aren't you? Got a question for you... I've shot something with a high fleck silver metallic base ready for a blue candy. Busy doing some ghost images using a grey on top of the silver. All works fine until I lay the first layer of ink dye on it, for some reason the grey then seems to react with the silver. Do you reckon I should stick some inter-coat on it before putting the ink dye on?

Actually you are a full time spray man aren't you? Got a question for you... I've shot something with a high fleck silver metallic base ready for a blue candy. Busy doing some ghost images using a grey on top of the silver. All works fine until I lay the first layer of ink dye on it, for some reason the grey then seems to react with the silver. Do you reckon I should stick some inter-coat on it before putting the ink dye on?

That sounds all a bit specialist to me. But are all the products the same? and if not, do some use a thinner and some a catalyst? sounds like one of the products you are using don't like the other. I would read all data sheets available for all products as this can get exspensive to keep stripping what your painting.

I have never got to involved with candy or high metalics as they are too much agro when things don't go right, Painting stuff in normal paint is bad enough.

Not much help I know but its not really my field.

Dave:)

hi my front bumper has been sprayed with aerosol paint. Does these have to be removed or is there a primer that can go over this so that it can be sprayed by a paint shop cheers j

Tell the paint shop and let them take care of it for you, there's little point in doing it yourself.

do not use anything like d40!...the painter will rub it down and put a barrier coat on as it will react with the new paint.

cheers peaple. i took it to a bodyshop and they quoted £300 just for the bumper . so i thought i'd do some myself to keep the cost down (bit skint at the mo)