[John2kx]

Jay,

Applied the silver followed by putty to fill voids and cover the glass cloth supplied with the trunk restoration kit. No bubbles what so ever in the entire trunk. Nothing special .......just followed the instructions as provided.

Any instruction that stated to "ensure completely dry before applying the product" was allowed to sit overnight to ensure complete dryness. This was also done indoors. Maybe the torch did not get your surface completely dry??????

The black chassis coat goes on tomorrow evening.


Interesting point with respect to sanding between coats for a nicer finish. Come to think of it, I should have used a tack cloth prior to applying my first coat of silver. I did see small particals of metal/dirt/etc. during the application but it was too late to stop at this point. I did blast the surface with my air tool but assume the trunk was too large an area for this to be effective and the fact that the trunk walls prevented all particals a path in which to escape.

The silver did flow nicely with a brush. Several of my buds could not believe a gun was not used (myself included).

This job has taken longer than I thought and mostly due to my experience with the product. The putty available from Por 15 reminded me of my first sheetrock job. .............only put on what is needed. This stuff is as hard as supermans kneecaps and takes alot of sanding to remove.......especially in tight spots where you can't get in big johnson sander. After more hand sanding that I could stand, I purchased one of the small dremel sanders (triangular shaped head). This was slow going. I guess I learned from this job and should be able to reduce my labor by 30-50% on future jobs.