Orange peel?
#5
There are many things that can cause orange peel,
Not quite enough product applied,
Air pressure too low,
Not enough reducer, wrong reducer or mix ratio incorrect,
Incorrect gun setup,
Baked too soon / or accelerated too much,
Too much product applied,
Basically listed in order of likelihood. Even a $50 gun can lay down a glassy coat of paint when it's used by an experienced painter. I have cheapo $75 gravity feed's for general use, and $500 DeVilbiss's for the important jobs. I have repainted brand new $180,000 Peterbilts with the cheapie gun, and it looked better than factory.
What it comes down too, is orange peel, when excessive, is simply a crappy paint job. Every paint job has some degree of it, it's the nature of sprayed paint, but if it looks like cottage cheese, whoever painted it probably doesn't know what they're doing.
Not quite enough product applied,
Air pressure too low,
Not enough reducer, wrong reducer or mix ratio incorrect,
Incorrect gun setup,
Baked too soon / or accelerated too much,
Too much product applied,
Basically listed in order of likelihood. Even a $50 gun can lay down a glassy coat of paint when it's used by an experienced painter. I have cheapo $75 gravity feed's for general use, and $500 DeVilbiss's for the important jobs. I have repainted brand new $180,000 Peterbilts with the cheapie gun, and it looked better than factory.
What it comes down too, is orange peel, when excessive, is simply a crappy paint job. Every paint job has some degree of it, it's the nature of sprayed paint, but if it looks like cottage cheese, whoever painted it probably doesn't know what they're doing.
#12
Wetsanding is exactly how you fix orange peel. Usually, if you want a top quality paint job, you'd want the paint color sanded. Basically before clear coat, the actual paint would be wetsanded down to be flat to eliminate any imperfection. But doing this requires more paint to be layed down since you'd be sanding some away. Same goes when you lay down the clear, you'd want to wetsand, but with a higher grit. Then follow up with a compound and polish and that thing would be shining.
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