
Spray the first coat on your furniture. Wipe off any remaining dust with a tack cloth. Vacuum all the dust from the furniture piece. How do you get a smooth paint finish? Instructions 320 to 400 Grit Sandpaper: Very fine grit sandpaper is used for light sanding between coats of finish and to sand metal and other hard surfaces. What grit sandpaper should I use between coats of paint?ġ80 to 220 Grit Sandpaper: Finer grit sandpaper is great for removing the scratches left by coarser grits on unfinished wood and for lightly sanding between coats of paint. DON’T SCRATCH AT THE BONDING PRIMER TO TEST ADHESION! What happens if you don’t sand before painting? It will look blotchy and rough, but it’s doing its job locking in the stain and creating a rough surface so the paint will adhere to it. The continued evaporation causes blisters, or air bubbles, to accumulate under the dried layer of paint.ĭo you need to sand between coats of paint? The outermost later of paint dries before the volatile solvents underneath can evaporate. Why did my second coat of spray paint bubble?īlisters in spray paint occur when a layer of paint is laid too thickly or is subjected to adverse conditions. How do you prep wood for painting without sanding?īelow are some things to consider when trying to figure out should i sand between coats of rustoleum. When can you put a second coat of spray paint on?. Why did my second coat of spray paint bubble?. Let dry for a few more days and you should be good to apply a top coat clear if you want to. Do not spray willy nilly, the overspray will dull the wet coat and ruin the finish. Make sure your spray is always "wetting" the previous lap and the overspray is flying away from the guitar. Spray the guitar in nice even coats from the bottom to the top at a 45 degree angle, overlapping the coats slightly. Spray a test stream on something, make sure it's coming out nice and even. Then I would take a tack cloth to remove any dust, SHAKE the **** out of my top color can. I would let it air out for 5 or 6 days, just to make sure everything is completely dry and hard.
So sand all of the paint off down to the primer, then sand the primer as smooth as possible. The primer could of had wet paint below the surface that came "alive" when the new paint hit it, thus making it crawl. If this was the case the solvents will create hot spots and dry uneven and even orange peel can occur. Taking a few guesses here, it sounds like the paint wasn't thoroughly mixed. I would use Krylon made to "bond to plastic", because it's made to stick to anything and is almost as good as the old stuff. The new spray cans are not nearly as good. This paint dried rock hard within minutes and was very glossy.
First, the best spray paint was Krylon (with the balls on the label) this was discontinued because of EPA guidelines. I'm a sign painter and have used rattle cans for over 40 years. I’d stay away from Rustoleum 2x Painters Touch. Let me hand my daughter a nice piece of garbage. I absolutely hate painting, without a doubt. I JUST want it consistent be it nice or spray crap. I sand and sand the last of the orange peel. The top looks ok and the back, well, looks like a spray job. I finally decided to let’s just get something on there no matter how bad it looks because, well I’m into 4 cans already. I’m starting to think I have a few bad cans of paint. though it still looked like it was spray painted. And then painted and that lifted the first to orange peel certain places. It looked like it was spray painted, that grainy texture. I sanded to a soft to the touch silky smoothness. It wasn’t remarkably great, but as expected. I have followed the directions from the Rustoleum site to a T. Yet for all these months I have been trying to paint it. Used pink minis are hens teeth around here -and Ken gave me a phenomenal price. I bought a red Mini from Mountain back in September.