So, I have already done a few pieces of my interior using an S.E.M. silver paint and clear, to match my car. Up until this point, I'd just take my precious time and sand the plastic completely smooth, and spray bomb the silver on, I'd make it smooth enough you couldn't see any scratches etc. So I finally decided to try to do this a better way, and got some Dupli-Color Sandable primer (red stuff) well this @!#$ is F'IN SOFT! I sprayed it on, sanded, etc, but each time I accidently nicked it just a bit with the edge of the sandpaper, it would make a divit in the primer--wth?
So I did everything as best as I could, sprayed it silver, cleared, waited 24 hours (48 is required for full cure I know) but if anything touched the paint, fingernail, etc, you could DIG INTO THE PRIMER! and the primer was drying for like 3 god damned days. I have 2 other pieces I've left alone after painted and I'm going to wait like 4 days before I touch them--Will the primer harden up? And what primer should I be using that doesn't basically dent when I touch it? It just seemed to have really crappy adhesion, I could roll it off.... needless to say, I'm back to sanding the whole thing with 80 grit to rip this @!#$ off. I hate doing things twice.
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Well I never used the red stuff from them, but many have told me to use the Filler primer from them. I used it on my dash and it looks great. I did about 2-3 coats, and sanded with only 200 or 400 before I painted. I gave the paint about a full day to dry before I cleared.
go check out some 3k high build primer and hit your plastic with that! That's what I used and the paint is a hard as the exterior!
Get some plastic adhesive spray too..hit it with that, then 3k high build primer, sand the top coat off and spray with the primer again to level it out, then base coat (light...)...about 3 coats total and the clear it with 3 coats...
Should be fine and last forever!
Eh...old man with a Corvette now...it was bound to happen sooner rather than later right?
first of all, you always want to test the product on a small piece to test adhesion if you don't know anyone who has used it. Paints always work best on certain material, and don't work worth a sh*t on others. If you are opting to use spray cans to paint, definately just use what people on the site are using because they seem to have pretty decent result with spray cans. If you would like to keep testing other stuff to try and get even better results, i would just start out with a junk piece and only do parts of it to test things such as adhesion. If you decide you do not want to use spray cans, i can tell you where you can get paint that company's use to paint interiors for places like honda, and chrysler, etc. the stuff is expensive, and the catalyst for it is even more expensive. no clear or primer is required, so its just a sand till you like it, and spray it.
Yeah sand, prime, spray can paint and clear coat will be the cheapest, and if you use the right stuff then they should come out pretty good looking...
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