When you are painting stuff, If you wet sand the last color coat before clear will the clear coat bring it back to shiny? I dont want to sand it back to dull and then clear it only to find out I gotta sand it off again and spray another layer of color.
It's supposed to. When you sand the paint, you are smoothing any high spots and creating more surface area for the next layer to adhere to. If you use a high gloss clear coat, then the final finish should be glossy. Just make sure that you use the correct grit when wet sanding.
Ideally, I guess you should...it's only gonna make the surface finish better. If it were me, and I wanted a good shiney finish I wouldn't mess with probably the last two coats of clear.
***addition*** I was doing some looking around and found a place that was talking about sanding the base coat but nothing about sanding the clear coat. I don't know if they just didn't mention it or if it means you're not supposed to.
Last edited on Wed Jun 30th, 2004 05:25 am by manninej
TXFO wrote: Right now Im using 2000 grit for the final layers.
Should I wet sand the layers of clear or will that dull it out again?
based on simply what i know of physics
i would suspect
that sanding the clear coat
would result in a "frosted glass" finish
rather than the deep, glossy shine you're looking for.
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I discovered through experimentation that sanding the final clear coat and then using a buffing wheel with the jewlers rouge will make it shine up real nice. however, 2000 git is still too abrasive for the final. I havent been able to find a finer than 2000, so I dont sand the clear coat and just hit it with the buffing wheel.
i have always understood that if at all possible you dont sand the color coat(unless you have a run) then you lay a few coats of clear and once thats all dry you wet sand it with really high grit sand paper then use buffing compound to bring the gloss back to the paint... that gets rid of orange peel and leaves a super smooth glossy finish. i dont know if thats only certain types of paint tho.
