Flatting/Smoothing "touch up" marks.

[Nobby Diesel]

I have a few badly touched up stone chip marks.
Any tips for getting these smoothed out?

[A911DOM]

Nobby Diesel said:

I have a few badly touched up stone chip marks.
Any tips for getting these smoothed out?

I dotted a bit of touch up paint on my 3.2 a few weeks ago and would also be very interested in a decent method to 'blend them in' safely!

[freecar]

There is a little gadget that holds a razor blade and is adjustable like a plane. It's for "planing" off runs so would work a treat on a blob of touch up if careful!

http://tinyurl.com/35ww9m3


Should do the trick!

Edited by freecar on Tuesday 3rd August 12:36

[A911DOM]

Can you not buy those little tiny sanding pegs that you stick a very fine grade paper on and only then target a very specific area.

I saw a guy from a bodyshop take a little imperfection out with one of these before years ago, then simply polish the area to a perfect unnoticeable finish.

Needless to say I didnt ask if these were available to Joe public at the time

[H13BSM]

I tend to find the best way to do it, is put a single layer on via an incredibly small brush. Let it dry and then add another layer with the same process. I repeat these stages until the paint is protruding from the surface of the original painted area. Once this is achieved then pick the appropriate pad and polish combo on the rotary and carefully machine until just level with the original surface. Then I refine the compounded area on the rotary to blend the 'touched up' area into the rest of the painted area untill a glass like finish. I find this works great and leaves it looking as new as possible.

[Nobby Diesel]

H13BSM said:

I tend to find the best way to do it, is put a single layer on via an incredibly small brush. Let it dry and then add another layer with the same process. I repeat these stages until the paint is protruding from the surface of the original painted area. Once this is achieved then pick the appropriate pad and polish combo on the rotary and carefully machine until just level with the original surface. Then I refine the compounded area on the rotary to blend the 'touched up' area into the rest of the painted area untill a glass like finish. I find this works great and leaves it looking as new as possible.

That sounds like good practice, but the "filling" is already done.
The peg idea is worth investigating.

Thanks folks.

[PJ S]

What you're looking for is the 3M denibber, which carterconsumables may have.
That and some 3K Trizact should do the trick.

[A911DOM]

This has got to be something like I was referring to - No idea of the grade of pad this is though...

http://www.cartersconsumables.co.uk/3m50199-finess...

[Detailed Image]

Not sure whether anyone stocks it in the UK but there is a product called Langka Chip & Scratch repair that contains something called 'Blob Eliminator'.

You just put a drop on a microfibre and gently rub over the paint excess/blob and it removes the excess without removing the paint siting in the chip.

Heres the website: http://www.langka.com

Ian

[Nobby Diesel]

Thanks again, everyone.

[Markymark69]

http://www.frost.co.uk/item_detail.asp?productID=8...

Langka in the uk, works very well.

[Deva Link]

Markymark69 said:

http://www.frost.co.uk/item_detail.asp?productID=8...

Langka in the uk, works very well.

In a similar vein, I used UltraSolve (ULS) as described in this thread http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.p... . I bought a big can of ULS off eBay.

I did it on wifey's light blue metallic car and it worked very well. The timing is difficult though - a blob of touch-up paint stays soft for days and if you attack too soon it just dissolves away.
The best "tool" I found for flattening it was a loyalty card (thinner and more flexible than a credit card) with thin cloth wrapped over it.

[jondude]

Lazy man's method I use is to put far too much paint on the chip (too impatient to build it up in small layers as is the recommended way) and let it dry for at least 24 hours.

Then use Autogylm Paint Renovator to polish/cut it back. Mate couldn't find the repair job despite this being done on an ugly chip, so that'll do for me.