Touchup Tips
From: “Karl”
Newsgroups: rec.games.pinball
Subject: Re: Tuchup Help needed
> flemmel@online.no wrote:
> > I trid that kind of tape on a white spot to see if the paint flaked and
> > it did
Cliffy wrote:
> then you cannot mask at all. >
Once again I must respectfully disagree Cliffy. One could sand the PF
with 600, shoot one or maybe two thin coats of (auto) clear. It has a
nice way of “soaking in” and bonding the cracked (but still adheared)
art. Sanding will have knocked off the loose stuff. After a quick 12
hour (or so) drying, scuff it up again, possibly with a DA sander if
you are VERY careful not to break through. This will give a very nice
surface to mask, air brush, hand touch-up, whatever you want…. Then
after all touch up, “slather” it with nice thick auto CC. Then you will
have enough thickness to sand it all perfectly flat without breaking
through, graduate up to 1,500 or 2,00o grit, buff, polish, looks like
glass! Credit to Arizona Bruce for this and many other great tips and
techniques.
As for the tape it self, They have blue plastic painters tape in auto
body supply stores. It is $6-$12 per roll and I’m way too cheap for
that. I spray foot powder onto a PF glass, tape electrical tape onto
the glass over the foor powder, cut it into strips lenth wise, bam!!!
Low stick flexible tape almost free! You can even adjust the low stick
by how much powder you spray. This one was all Karl! :)
Note: This is not a campaign for favorite CC product, I’m just not sure
how/if it would work with other types of clears. YMMV…..
GodSpeed, Please keep us posted.
Karl.
