Chem srip on fiberglass ??

Klean -Strip makes a fiberglass paint stripper....basically it is mild and will pop off the color coats and stop at the primer....but you cannot let it stay on for too long. Get the colors off and hand sand the primer off to the original gel coat. Gel coat is as soft as paint so a DA will flatten out all the body lines if you are not careful.

Always best to get it back down to the original gel coat since it is hard to say if all the prep steps was done correctly way back when.

PaintWorkz wrote: Gel coat is as soft as paint .

?? You must be talking about very hard paint.I just sanded the gelcoat on a front mudguard a couple of weeks ago and it was a bugger. It took a rotary sander with 120 grit to get it leveled out! Much harder that the fiberglass underneath.

Ok, my body shop wanted 200 to paint that fender I got from Pete ...wtfudge!!! And I offered to sand it down. 30.00 worth of rattle can acrylic lacquer an sand paper and it's done. A lot of sanding, spraying many coats,wet sanding and buffing . Cost more than 200 if my time is worth anything, but just couldn't bring myself to pay 200 for that tiny fender. We shall see how it holds up. I

Looks good and YOU did it.
Steve

Right on. The picture in my avatar is my gas tank.
I painted it with 1 rattle can of paint and 1 clear coat rattle can from AutoZone.
I bought a can of two part clear urethane to seal it up better from gas.
A local, run of the mill body shop, offered to paint and clear coat it for $300.00.
Screw them.

Not bad.
Steve

Coyote14 wrote: Ok, my body shop wanted 200 to paint that fender I got from Pete ...wtfudge!!! And I offered to sand it down. 30.00 worth of rattle can acrylic lacquer an sand paper and it's done. A lot of sanding, spraying many coats,wet sanding and buffing . Cost more than 200 if my time is worth anything, but just couldn't bring myself to pay 200 for that tiny fender. We shall see how it holds up. I

Looks real good, Dave, , that body shop sounds like crooks especially if you were going to prep it, that's the hardest part, for future reference, VHT makes an Epoxy rattle can paint that doesn't need a primer, you can get at Autozone for 6.99, I painted the rims on my 4RNR with it
this is what the rims looked like before the prep work


this is after , with the Satan Black paint, but they also make a Gloss Black


Pete

Nice work, Satin is my preference now. Alloy needs special etch primer so I prefer the no primer rattle cans for this. The Sperex enigne paint is very good, I like to bake it in the oven.

I took a risk on the sidepanels of my 550, I 'm cautious about prepping plastics so flatted and primed over the existing non standard colours...they looked nice a year ago but now i'm getting reaction bubble problems :sick: No probs, the other parts look good so I'm doing some GPz red again soon on some other bits. Would an isolator or barrier primer help here?