[6pack] Fixing Paint Chips

[Foster, Stan]

Richard is spot on. The trick is patience.. degrease the chip, remove any
material that is loose, put some primer in the hole if you are down to bare
metal. Apply the top coat with anything that will allow you to deliver a small
drop of paint and allow it spread. A splinter of wood works as well as
anything. Let it dry for hours and if you are still below the surface add
another drop and let that dry. Once you are above the surface of the
surrounding paint let it dry for several days. Then rub down with fine grit
wet and dry to level it etc and polish.

Stan

-----Original Message-----
From: 6pack-bounces+stan.foster=hp.com at autox.team.net
[mailto:6pack-bounces+stan.foster=hp.com at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Richard
Seaton
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 8:37 PM
To: Bob Danielson; 6 Pack
Subject: Re: [6pack] Fixing Paint Chips

Make sure the chip is clean of dirt, wax etc,  rubbing alcohol will do for
cleaner. If chip is just to the primer keep adding a dot of paint until it is
higher than your chip. Then take a very small block of wood (auto paint
stores
also sell a little foam rubbing block with fine sand paper on it, just for
this) wrap with 1100-1600 grit sand paper then wet sand until the new paint
bubble is flush to the old, until the line around the bubble is gone. then
work it with rubbing compound then glazing (swirl remover) compound to get
the
shine back. A small buffer works better than by hand.

NOTE- this is for single stage paint!!!!! Base coat clear is similar, but you
don't want to sand through the clear to the base coat!!! Others might pipe in
on this.

Hope this helps

Richard Seaton

RSH17 at msn.com

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