Can SS paint be used to touch up bc/cc
 

I shot my car with Restoration Shop bc/cc and it has begun to gather some tiny stone chips and other scratches. Restoration Shop also offers the same color paint in a Single Stage Urethane. I'm thinking that would be a better way to touch up the stone chips (applied with pin or tiny brush tip) than to try to shoot bc/cc. Any potential problems mixing the two types of paint?

Don't you just "love" road rash. But you can consider them battle scars :pain:

I've only using SS on mine for touch up - but those spots will show (at least to your discerning eye).

Dave W

So no "chemical" sorts of issues using SS to repair bc/cc?

Not on the road rash kind of dings, but it is a urethane base paint that I'm using ( or at least it's not lacquer ).

Why not pick a hidden spot and try your touch up paint - i.e. bottom of a door. If that touch up is lacquer based, you might have some lifting - tho it probably isn't.

I would have to order a whole quart of it if I was to go this route. So I wanted to be quite certain before I go to that expense that the urethane SS is not going to create any problems when used with the urethane BC/CC.

And if I understand you correctly, it shouldn't have any ill effects...with the exception of not matching up absolutely perfect...which is almost always the case when you don't spray on the repair I think.

Why not make your own SS? Try mixing some of your left over base coat and premixed clear (mix your clear and activator first) and whala, you have a single stage touch up paint! Just mix it 1:1 base to clear. I caught that trick from Barryk a few years ago. Now I'm sure you can't do that with every combination of base and clear, but it's worth a try. I've even mixed the base w/ reducer and added the clear concoction to it and sprayed out of an air brush.

Interesting idea, and worth a try.

My paint store suggested I add about 20-25% clear to the base, to make single stage.

Hope that helps to keep it from being too transparent.

This does work and many shops will give you a small bottle for touch-up after a paint job.

Not a bad idea, George. Too bad I don't have any clearhttp://planetsmilies.net/sad-smiley-384.gif

Dave W

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