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Old 07-26-2019, 02:46 PM
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I had a friend laser cut a Pontiac Indianhead sign for my shop. It's about 10 gage steel. Painted the front and back satin black--no problem.

Sprayed the Indianhead red and let it dry lying horizontally about two hours in the sun--no problem. It was late in the day, so I took it inside and set it vertically. The paint was not dry enough to stay in place, so I have some terrible runs.

Since that debacle, I've set the sign in the sun for a few days again. But, due to the thickness of the runs, the paint won't harden for a LONG TIME.

Is there something short of starting over I can use to level the runs? Help!!!
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Old 07-27-2019, 10:40 AM
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Might be able to wet sand and buff depending on paint. Or, press the bugger down some with a small hard roller and sand flat. Scuff the whole red part and respray.

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Hard roller is a good idea. Then scuff & repaint—with less paint AND allow to dry horizontal!

Thanks for the idea!

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Used a hard roller and #320 dry paper. After a lot of circular sanding by hand, I got the runs flat. Allowed to dry several days and painted with no problems.

Thanks for the ideas!

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Happy for ya it worked out.

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Old 08-12-2019, 10:04 PM
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Just FYI, I once saw a video where there were runs in finished paint on a car. The guy wiped glazing putty over the entire area where the runs were and when dry started block wet sanding the area with fine grit. It took a while but he worked through the glaze and the runs and ended up with a flat smooth finish with no glaze or runs. Had never seen that before.

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