FISHEYES

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JC Daniel

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I have a friend who restored a 1972 Duster for a guy, He painted the car sassy grass green in Sherwin Williams low line Dimensions base coat and sprayed 2 coats of O'Reilly Auto parts production clear. I went and looked at the car after he was finished buffing and all and the hood has a lot of fisheyes in it. I ask him if he had a problem with silicone contamination or moisture and he got agitated and said why? I said the hood is covered in fisheyes, He said moisture will not cause that and he said there was no way that it was contaminated with silicone. So here is my question, Does moisture cause fisheyes? I know silicone does but moisture is my guess because he has no filters at all between the compressor and gun except the auto part store round filter on the bottom of the gun.
 
The car was assembled and painted together, The fisheyes are all about the same size and are round craters all over the hood. I could not see any fisheyes anywhere else on the car, I have had fisheyes before from hand contamination but nothing like he has. He said the guy has $85,000.00 in the completed car and says the owner looked at it and was very happy with it.
 
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Two different issues completely.

From what you described, I think Shine nailed it.
 
From how you describe the guy, maybe he ran out of clean rags when he got to the hood, and found a couple of "clean" ones he only used once to wax the last car :) Hard to isolate fisheyes to one panel, otherwise. Airborn or compressor contamination would be everywhere.
 
He uses towels to clean the car with wax and grease remover before painting and has his wife to wash them and reuses them until they wear out, I think he did paint the hood separate in a little side room he has. Do you guys think the towels could be the issue?
 
JC, you need better friends!

Of course no one should be using re-washed towels as prep wipes, only fresh, lint-free disposable wipes designed for paint prep. One can re-use the spent prep wipes for other things, they would be especially useful to give to a mechanic, for instance. We don't save ours because we would be drowning in them pretty shortly and there is no one around to give them to.
 
I tried my best to get him to use paint prep wipes but he insists that he knows better than me which all my information comes from here or self taught, That being said you can't teach some people nuthin.
 
JC Daniel said:
I tried my best to get him to use paint prep wipes but he insists that he knows better than me which all my information comes from here or self taught, That being said you can't teach some people nuthin.
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some things cannot be taught, like doing restorations and having a happy owner with 85K in a car with fisheyes.
 
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