[Spridgets] Base coat clear coat

Mark Haynes 220caribou at gmail.com
Mon Feb 7 18:34:37 MST 2022


Thanks Steve,
I put many hours into wet sanding the clear on the 'stang,  and it has a
marvelous shine to it, no orange peel, that's the beauty of clear coat, you
can take a much time as you like to make it look however good you want.

On Mon, Feb 7, 2022, 3:10 PM Steve Williams <stevewilliamsclu at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Hard to find lacquer anymore...EPA Regs. Also, lacquer is not durable, it
> will chip and fade. If you use clearcoat and you properly wet sand and buff
> it you will have no orange peel and it will have a warm deep look, not like
> shiny plastic at all.
>
> Steve Williams
>
> On Monday, February 7, 2022, 04:08:14 PM EST, Billy Zoom via Spridgets <
> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
>
>
> If you’re going to all the trouble, why not use something that looks more
> appropriate on a vintage car…like real lacquer (cellulose)for instance.
> Clear coat always gives it that wet orange peel look. It’s sort of shiny,
> but there’s no reflection.
>
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