Hello again!
Sorry I haven't been updating the thread.
I'll give you a brief update of what has happened during these days.
Last summer: I wasn't totally happy with the lacquer of the roof. There was quite an orange peel at the middle of the roof, because my hand didn't reach the center of the roof that well.
Anyway, I thought that I'd wetsand it a little, and put a new coat of lacquer on it. Since I wasn't familiar of wetsanding, it did go through the lacquer coat, and I had to recoat it with white basecoat..
That's when it started to go wrong. There was some chemical reaction, and almost the whole roof was spoiled.
This kind of fault:
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As I tried to fix it, the area got bigger, and it started to go wrong from many spots (at least 50% of the car was looking like that at some point).
I tried and tried, but not any improvements.
I came demoralised and pushed the car to the corner of the "cold" part of the garage. I did nothing during the winter and only grieved my bad luck and my lack of know how.
Well in spring I "turned on" again and deciced to finish the painting.
Guess what, SAME PROBLEM AGAIN
Then i got some advice i tried and it eventually worked. I heated the car first, then sprayed primer with little thinner only in thin coats also. Then I dried it with heat.
I fixed every spot with this method, and the sprayed a thick coat of lacquer with fast thinner.
I sanded the laquer and then started to spray the basecoat again like this:
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Blue allready painted and covered.
And these photos are from this evening (its 00:19 am here now):
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The stripes go tho the door well now unlike last summer.
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This is the only spot I'm not totally satisfied with. Lacquer flowed a bit, but I'll let a professional to fix it someday.
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Some shot of the engine bay.
I hope you understand why I haven't updated this thread. I had been too sad to even let anyone know when my problems appeared.
But now I'm doing all well
and the project goes on.
Next I'll take out the k-member to put the engine and transmission on it.
I'll update for you whenever I get something done.
I have 2 weeks of holiday now, hopefully I'll get something done.
Thanks for your interest.
P.S.
I did paint some little parts couple a days ago:
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Valve covers to match the colors of the car(blue bc is painted with a brush so it isn't so accurate)
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MSD Blaster 3 became a cranecams coil