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Rustyj14
05-19-2006 10:40:20
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Re: hey CNKS.. Fish-eye remover in reply to souNdguy, 05-14-2006 15:52:39
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I worked in the auto body trade for 50 years or so. In all that time, the only problems we had with "fish-eyes" was usually caused by out of the shop conditions, such as the guy next door waxing his car, or polishing it with a car polish that contained silicone! The shop was in the city, so we did get the "eyes" occasionally. So, in order to prevent having problems, which we had no idea when they would occur, all synthetic or acrylic enamels got a squirt of FEE!(Fish-eye eliminator) One place i worked was one big room, with the wash bay at one end and the body shop and paint booth at the other end. Needless to say, the uneducated car washer/ polisher couldn't understand plain English (about not waxing while the paint booth exhaust fan was running) so he'd pepper my paint with fisheyes. To eliminate any problems, i used FEE, in all enamel jobs! I never heard of anybody having breathing problems from FEE, but plenty from guys who thought they were too macho to wear a double canister paint mask! Of course, after the new paints came out, the problems mounted in the breathing department. now, you folks who work at home, with nobody around to polish cars, or any of the other things that cause problems, probably won't have any problems with eyes, until your wife decides to polish the furniture, on a nice hot day, with a slight wind blowing toward the area where you are working! And, she is trying out the new furniture polish, with silicones in it, and the airborne residue from a shaken out polish rag wafts down and settles on the second of three coats of your paint job, which you have just spent a month getting it to painting stage! So, you apply the last coat and---HEART ATTACK!! There they are! Eyes as big as dimes, all over the finish! What to do? Swear-jump up and down--drink 3 beers--kill the wife? Naw--just wash it all off with enamel reducer, and do it over! I can tell you from experience--it is better to use the FEE, in the paint, rather than do the job over! And, above all---do not wash the finish prior to painting, with gasoline!!! Use a product for that purpose, which you can buy at any automotive paint supply store. Or use enamel reducer, not laquer thinner, and especially not gasoline, kerosene, or water! A name i seem to remember was Fin'l Wash, another was Pre-kleeno! By: Rusty Jones
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