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I'm involved in one of those 1 hour projects that turned into five hours and could potentially take five more. I've been on this for about 3 weeks. I decided to sand/prime/paint the 10-15 tiny rust spots on my car. I've now decided that I may have gone about it all wrong and want to start over, but it's too late. I could use some advice here on ways to salvage this project.
First off, all of the sandpaper grits I used were specifically labeled for the part of the project I was on. Although I was hand-sanding everything - big mistake? I started by using a medium grit to remove the tiny rust spots. Although they were only tiny specs here and there, sanding them turned them into 1/2" blotches. Then I primed them. Although I tried to go on thin, the primer went on thick and got gooey so quickly that it was significantly clumpy/streaky. The 1/2" blotches were now 3/4" blotches. I then sanded with a primer sandpaper that increased the blotch size to 1" and there was enough sanding required that some of the primer went back to bare metal. Second coat and repeat.
So after getting all of the spots reasonably smooth, and increasing the blotches to big gaudy pockmarks on my car, I started painting with the Saab supplied touchup paint. Same result as the primer - gooey and streaky and thick. Went back a couple days later, sanded again, blotches got bigger, put on a second coat with more streaks and chunks. Now I'm at the point where I should be using some of the finishing sandpapers along with a clearcoat, but I've still got discolored chunky streaky paint splotches all over my car. 1500 grit sand paper isn't going to sand down the valleys I've got in these spots, so I'm back to a 400 or 600 grit and in and endless loop of more coats and more streaks (although I'm now out of paint).
I haven't been painting in direct sunlight (under a carport) and all of the work has been done in 60-75 degree weather. Do I need to use a powered sander? Different paint? Better brush? My car ain't looking so good.
aarn
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