Orange Peel effect
04-26-2006, 12:33 AM
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RE: Orange Peel effect
LOL! You guys! You can't remove orange peel, it is integral to any acrylic enamel paint job. The Mustang paint jobs are actually pretty good with very little orange peel. No matter how much wet sanding you do between coats, you've got to topcoat it and that topcoat WILL have orange peel. If you don't want orange peel, you'll need to strip the entire paint job off your car down to the metal and go with a lacquer paint job (lacquer cannot be painted over enamel). Lacquer doesn't orange peel, that's why Vette paint jobs look so glassy (they're lacquer). Lacquer paint jobs are expensive (requiring many coats and hand wet sanding between coats) and that's why you only see them on high-end cars. But lacquer is also a lot easier to touch up, it can be blended unlike enamel. You probably know if you dent an enamel paint job you've got to repaint the entire panel. Not so with lacquer.
For those that are wondering what "orange peel" is, if you get close to your paint and look down the panel it's that slight waviness to the paint job. It looks kind of like the surface of an orange, thus the name.
For those that are wondering what "orange peel" is, if you get close to your paint and look down the panel it's that slight waviness to the paint job. It looks kind of like the surface of an orange, thus the name.
04-26-2006, 12:51 AM
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RE: Orange Peel effect
thats what i said. but if you sand down to the base coat you can remove the orange peel. and you can get an enamel paintjob withoug=t orange peel. it just has to be done right. which ford (orany car company) cant afford
04-26-2006, 01:10 AM
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RE: Orange Peel effect
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that must cost alot of money for that much work....i could probably hire aliens to put a warp-drive in my car for that much.
that must cost alot of money for that much work....i could probably hire aliens to put a warp-drive in my car for that much.
Sorry I but I had to say something on that. No more
04-26-2006, 01:13 AM
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RE: Orange Peel effect
ORIGINAL: 8cd03gro
that must cost alot of money for that much work....i could probably hire aliens to put a warp-drive in my car for that much.
that must cost alot of money for that much work....i could probably hire aliens to put a warp-drive in my car for that much.
Sorry I but I had to say something on that. No more
04-26-2006, 01:20 AM
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RE: Orange Peel effect
lets not make this a political debate. i can see it coming in to like post with 5 pages so every one can get there opinion on the hispanic population in this country. so im putting an end to it before it happens.
notice i stated no oppinion on immigration.
coughfKeepThemOutcoughf
notice i stated no oppinion on immigration.
coughfKeepThemOutcoughf