Alclad Perfection

[Guest]

Well! I started something here. I will give it a try, perhaps in my garage 'cos of the smell and the risk of breathing it in.

If I make a hash of it how could I clean it off to bare plastic?

[Ian M]

By nature it is only a very fine layer and bar raised detail it is a fairly simple matter to flat it down with a fine polishing cloth and come back to the primer. I don't know if the usual oven cleaner trick work on alclad.

On the plus side, it can be painted over with almost any other paint.

Ian M

[ojays]

As in any good paint finish it all relies on the effort put into the preparation.

A saying in the refinishing trade (the finish is only as good as the preparation, which is 90% of the finish)

To put it into plain terms, paint is a liquid. Liquid follows the contours of the surface it is applied to, hence if the surface isn't even, the liquid (paint finish) will be uneven.

The more preparation done , the less effort required for the finish.

When training some of my painters in the past, I used to drum the importance of preparation into them over & over.

Any one can apply paint, but to master preparation takes time and patience!

The preparation for this Mazda Eunos took me 7.5 days, the spraying took me 2.5 hours in total (5 coats)

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Gregg