Booki wrote:
When I finished putting down my basecoat, I went out of the shed and left it. Would have been a good 15-20 minutes of time between the base and clear.
Did you go over the car with a tack rag before the clear to make sure there wasn't anything on it? 20 min is a good flash time between BC and CC. I stay between 25-30 min.
Booki wrote:Yeah, when I was spraying my basecoat, I saw drops of water, i just blew them off and thought nothing of it at the time, they did not react to the basecoat in anyway. But I assume this must have been what caused the fish eyes, in my clear.
definitely water in the line if you have water coming out of the gun and that was most likely the issue, dirty water contaminating the surface and contaminating your gun on the inside. Did you use a new filter before the APR on the gun? I usually buy a new filter for every car i paint, they're about $3 at HF and work great. Again, next time blow the compressor empty a couple times before painting. Or buy a new air line, I bought a new one because i think my old one was just to contaminated, and old.
Booki wrote:This worries me alot, is there any quick fix's I can do? I would like to keep painting the whole panel too a last resort...its not a show car. If the majority of the fish eyes were removed, I would call it day.
Yea re-clearing can be a pain. If the craters have settled down to a flatter finish, wet sand them out with 2k grit and use some compound and polish on it to restore the shine. if they are even flatter now than the time they were from the picture, shouldn't be to much shaving of CC.
Booki wrote:Live and learn, I could probably get away with respraying the majorly effected area's that will be seen easily, but time will tell if they will come out with a sand.
If you gave it some good coats, 2-3 of CC they should sand out fine.
going to be a lot of sanding for those individual spots.