Paint Touch-Up Techniques
 

Does anyone have any unique or special paint touch-up technicques? I'd like to touch-up a few of the larger stone chips on my 84 which has the original factory Kiln (brick red) paint on it.

Thanks much.

Larry Reynolds at Carcareonline.com has what seems to me to be a great technique. It involves using the smallest possible amount of paint, on a toothpick, touched to the center of a stone chip,and letting the capilary action draw a layer of paint off the toothpick into the chip. I'm obviously not doing his technique any justice, so go there and read about it. I got a free quart of Black Glaso from the body shop when they repainted my rear bumber (rear-ended a while back) and I'm anxious to try it out.

Good luck

Jared

Scott,

I have a paint chip repair business in Seattle and I work on BMWs, Mercedes, Audis, Jags, Cadillacs (and Porsches!!). A few questions for you:

1. How big is the biggest chip?

2. How many are there?

3. Where are they?

4. What type of repair do you want (camouflage or nearly gone)?

I normally do a camouflage repair for the dealerships, since they merely want to turn their inventory. This type of repair fills the chip with a permanent paint, but leaves a bit of a dimple where the chip was located (no raised "doughnut" though, like most other processes). Unfortunately, this requires me to be there with the special paints and removers I have.

If you have the time and inclination, you can make a flush repair using Porsche touch up paint and a disolver/polish I can get my hands on from the manufacturer who mixes my paints. To do it properly, it takes a course of several days to apply layers of paint and polish them down flat using the disolver applied to a 100% cotton rag (like a t-shirt) folded over a plactic straight edge (like a credit card).

You might be able to substitute a polish/wax mixture like Turtle Wax or Color Back for the disolver/polish compound I can get. You might want to experiment - let me know the results!

Depending on fade of your paint and the mix of the factory paint, your results can range from a perfect blend to very noticable color differences.

The last option is to go and have the whole panel $prayed, with the challenges of color match and overspray. If you find the right outfit, this will result in a beautiful continuous color, with no light refraction issues through the chip repairs. Because you said you have Kiln Red, refraction issues are minimized, since it is not a metallic or pearl coat type of color. You should be able to get away with just the factory touch up paint.

If you want, get a hold of me and I'll see if I can get my hands on some of the special disolver/polish.

Cheers!

Charlie - I noticed 'Mothers' sells a chip repair kit available at auto-parts stores. Any experience with that?

http://www.mothers.com/products/products.html

The Mother's kit is just repackaged Langka. Go to www.langka.com for more information. Langka concerns me...how can the process rub off the new paint "blob" and not harm the original paint? Any ideas?