Thread: I'm all primed up with more questions

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I finished of all my body work and decided to get painting. I covered everything with a primer sealer, that would be a second coat for the interior as I did a coat before the Lizard Skin. Then I applied two coats of the high fill primer and I'm pretty happy with the results. I just have a few slight imperfections that I can see, mostly where I filled in the roof trim, I think a bit of wet sanding should get rid of those with maybe one more shot of high fill. So now I ran out of primer until tomorrow so here's the question:

I'm painting the interior gloss black and the exterior red so.....I would assume you do the interior first in case of any overspray and I have to topcoat it within 24 hours MAX. The outside is gonna be sanded anyway so it can be left for a while, probably tomorrow if everything goes okay. How long should I wait before I tape it up to do the interior, I even considered just spraying it as is cause I have to sand the outer anyways.

Any suggestions, here's some pics of my garage paint booth. Sure is nice with the exhaust fan now. Man that thing was ugly before.

Sean

Paints have different times for tack, tape, etc. It would be best to look on the product data sheet for the paint you are using.... The place that you're buying your paint should be able to provide you with the sheet, if not you can usually go to the paint makers web site and download a data sheet for the type of paint you're using.......

Thanks again Dave, I've used this time wisely by sitting on my a$$ until I got a reply. From this sheet it doesn't really tell but I was thinking 2 hours has been enough.

http://www.autobodybrands.com/primers/5425_x2k.html

Sean

Yeah, if it's dry to sand in 60 minutes, the tape should be fine after 2 hours.

Thanks,

Back to work.......

Sean

Sean you putting on color tonight also . Sounds like a all nighter . Buy the way how did you end up repair the nuts for the door cap .

I found some wide flange nuts that I was gonna wel in but they didn't go deep enough so I think I'll just pop rivet them on. I actually forgot about them until you mentioned it, guess I can't weld anything in there now. Might tap them out also, we'll see.

Sean