Chipex Tips / Advice
Discussion
BingoBob said:
Practice on an out of the way chip first, to see if you are going to get the results you want before dabbing it all over your bonnet.
Good advice.I also find it better to discard the proprietary brushes and utilise a wooden toothpick. This affords you better control of the droplet as you place it into the chipped area.
Patience is the key. Build up the coats (drying time is only minutes) and remember you always have the option to remove your handy work with the enclosed solution.
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Jockman said:
Patience is the key. Build up the coats (drying time is only minutes) and remember you always have the option to remove your handy work with the enclosed solution.
this
Oh and don't miss some of the chips after you have put the paint on and forget to blend it off so that you find it the next day/week as it is a
to get off much later on...so I am told 
Jockman said:
I also find it better to discard the proprietary brushes and utilise a wooden toothpick. This affords you better control of the droplet as you place it into the chipped area.
I was thinking about this overnight (saddo!) and realised that a main part of the process when applying the paint is that you need to smear it with your thumb to ensure it beds into the chip properly. Therefore applying it with a toothpick for greater control is superfluous isnt it as you are smearing anyway? To get more into the hole you need to repeat the droplet/smear peocess to build up layers rather than try and get more in on the first pass.
Obviously AIMHO of course
oblio said:
I was thinking about this overnight (saddo!) and realised that a main part of the process when applying the paint is that you need to smear it with your thumb to ensure it beds into the chip properly. Therefore applying it with a toothpick for greater control is superfluous isnt it as you are smearing anyway?
I just drop it in Graham. It adheres of its own accord within a few minutes, then the topcoat is applied.No problems so far with this methodology
oblio said:
....By "topcoat" do you mean the blending solution?
No.When you drop the droplet in with the toothpick the liquid retains a high degree of its viscosity which you are a able to drag in any direction with the end of the stick, thus flattening the paint. Difficult to do this with the brushes.
When Mikey K was 'training' me in this method we did 4 or 5 chips of various depths. As the Blending Solution is primarily utilised for removal of any excess very little was required as we had controlled the amount we put on quite well.
Onto Polish shortly therafter
Jockman said:
No.
When you drop the droplet in with the toothpick the liquid retains a high degree of its viscosity which you are a able to drag in any direction with the end of the stick, thus flattening the paint. Difficult to do this with the brushes.
When Mikey K was 'training' me in this method we did 4 or 5 chips of various depths. As the Blending Solution is primarily utilised for removal of any excess very little was required as we had controlled the amount we put on quite well.
Onto Polish shortly therafter
When you drop the droplet in with the toothpick the liquid retains a high degree of its viscosity which you are a able to drag in any direction with the end of the stick, thus flattening the paint. Difficult to do this with the brushes.
When Mikey K was 'training' me in this method we did 4 or 5 chips of various depths. As the Blending Solution is primarily utilised for removal of any excess very little was required as we had controlled the amount we put on quite well.
Onto Polish shortly therafter
interesting process I find that the process as advised by Chipex works well for the smaller chips but I might give this a go for the larger/deeper ones.
This weekend I did a practise ChipEx run the daily driver, its a bit of an old banger with plenty of chips, scratches and road rash so provided a perfect test subject. As a general comment I was really happy with the results. It does a pretty good job of the chips and is incredible on road rash but I found (and this may just be me) that it didn't work so well on scratches.
Anyway for any of you out there that are about to have a go here are some of my own tips and tricks I picked up.
1. Really clean the car before hand, if you have the time I would even go as far as claying it, it was amazing to see just how much of my so called chips where actually tar etc with polish giving it a fleck of white. This was especially noticeable around the sills. I didn't have any clay but did use some tar remover which did the job nicely.
2. On deep chips, as stated before be patient, take your time and build up the layers.
3. For Road Rash. Don't be scared, I quite literally covered my whole front bumper! Then just used the blending solution to remove it. The the girl now has a "as good as new" front bumper!
4. When applying by finger for larger areas be careful of drips. Sounds obvious but a few still got away which I only found later when polishing.
5. Following on from that, if you have a nice drive way put some cardboard down to work over. Whilst I kept the bottle away from the car......
6. If you plan of doing lots of road rash by extra blender. I realise I essentially did a whole panel but I when through nearly 2 bottles of the stuff (and now have to reorder for the V8V kit)
7. When blending once the cloth has any sort of paint on it, it stops removing any more so you need to keep finding a fresh patches on the cloth to use.
8. Finally, be aware of the sun, on a black car it was drying the paint in about 10 seconds which makes spreading it around very difficult. Ideally I would apply it in the shade and blend it in the sun or even better do it in a well lit garage.
I will do some before and after photos on the V8V and post them up on here to. Just need another sunny day now.......
Anyway for any of you out there that are about to have a go here are some of my own tips and tricks I picked up.
1. Really clean the car before hand, if you have the time I would even go as far as claying it, it was amazing to see just how much of my so called chips where actually tar etc with polish giving it a fleck of white. This was especially noticeable around the sills. I didn't have any clay but did use some tar remover which did the job nicely.
2. On deep chips, as stated before be patient, take your time and build up the layers.
3. For Road Rash. Don't be scared, I quite literally covered my whole front bumper! Then just used the blending solution to remove it. The the girl now has a "as good as new" front bumper!
4. When applying by finger for larger areas be careful of drips. Sounds obvious but a few still got away which I only found later when polishing.
5. Following on from that, if you have a nice drive way put some cardboard down to work over. Whilst I kept the bottle away from the car......
6. If you plan of doing lots of road rash by extra blender. I realise I essentially did a whole panel but I when through nearly 2 bottles of the stuff (and now have to reorder for the V8V kit)
7. When blending once the cloth has any sort of paint on it, it stops removing any more so you need to keep finding a fresh patches on the cloth to use.
8. Finally, be aware of the sun, on a black car it was drying the paint in about 10 seconds which makes spreading it around very difficult. Ideally I would apply it in the shade and blend it in the sun or even better do it in a well lit garage.
I will do some before and after photos on the V8V and post them up on here to. Just need another sunny day now.......
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