To Todd

[Gary Derian]

The basecoat/clearcoat paints I have used require the clear to be painted
within 24 hrs of the base.  This made painting flames a 24 hr marathon.
Paint yellow base, wait 4 hrs, mask flames for 8 hrs, paint red base,
unmask, paint clear.

The base and clear coats chemically bond together.  If you wait a week, you
have to sand the whole thing and reapply some more base.  If you are just
painting some clear on top of regular paint, you still have to sand it
before the clear otherwise the clear won't stick.

The solvents in paint should flash off between coats but the paint should
not cure.

Gary Derian <gderian at oh.verio.com>

> > I'm about to 'paint' my jag the same way, if not worse!
>
> Hopefully better.  Next weekend I'll take the time and finish it right,
> let it bake in the sun for a week, then clear coat it and I'll have a
> decent shine.  Friend's body shop offered to clear it for me, so that
> makes my life easier.  I've cut off all the rust and welded in patch
> panels, and a little bondo here and there, maybe 2 oz total on the
> truck.  At least that I've added.
>
> > But ANYTHING would make er look better than the sorry peelin job it has
> > currently!
>
> I jsut got sick of the beige paint, and the beige paint peeling.  It was
> repainted several times without scratching the underlayers or using
> primer, but I knew this when I bought it.