Painting Dashboard
Posted: Fri Aug 25, 2023 1:21 pm
Hi.
Just wondering if anyone else had experienced this….. I’ve stripped out and begun sanding and prepping my MM for painting. It’s currently a very rich dark green. The paint finish on the outside left a lot to be desired. In areas I think the paint had been put on quite thickly and had cracked. When sanding it, before it actually would sand it would go through a stage of almost rolling into little waxy bits before eventually sanding through.
Inside - the dashboard seemed okay and so I sanded it to score, cleaned it with panel prep and primed..
the primer in areas hasn’t adhered to the paint and actually, the previous green paint has become tacky. I can literally wipe it off, all be it very sticky, with a cloth and panel prep. I’ve sanded again but realised that the green paint is very thick like the outside, so the areas where it hasn’t adhered I’ve began sanding. This is like trying to sand a candle though as the green paint is like sticky and almost tacky.
My gut is saying to stop what I’m doing and paint strip the lot off and start again. I’d thought about getting a flap wheel on my drill and trying to sand it off but I think it would take so much to try and get through the sticky stages of the paint.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this at all and what would your suggestions be? I’m leaning towards a bottle of nitromors at the moment.
Many thanks
Duncan
Just wondering if anyone else had experienced this….. I’ve stripped out and begun sanding and prepping my MM for painting. It’s currently a very rich dark green. The paint finish on the outside left a lot to be desired. In areas I think the paint had been put on quite thickly and had cracked. When sanding it, before it actually would sand it would go through a stage of almost rolling into little waxy bits before eventually sanding through.
Inside - the dashboard seemed okay and so I sanded it to score, cleaned it with panel prep and primed..
the primer in areas hasn’t adhered to the paint and actually, the previous green paint has become tacky. I can literally wipe it off, all be it very sticky, with a cloth and panel prep. I’ve sanded again but realised that the green paint is very thick like the outside, so the areas where it hasn’t adhered I’ve began sanding. This is like trying to sand a candle though as the green paint is like sticky and almost tacky.
My gut is saying to stop what I’m doing and paint strip the lot off and start again. I’d thought about getting a flap wheel on my drill and trying to sand it off but I think it would take so much to try and get through the sticky stages of the paint.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this at all and what would your suggestions be? I’m leaning towards a bottle of nitromors at the moment.
Many thanks
Duncan