Sand the rim with a 400 wet sandpaper...
Shoot the primer, wait until is dry... sand the imperfections (if any) with a 600 wet sand paper. Upol primer surfacer will dry in 30 minutes or so.
Shoot the paint... 2 light coats (10 mins between coats)... then a nice wet coat (thick coat), let dry over night. Sand all the imperfections using a 600 or a 1000 wet sand paper. If you want to go with 2000 it is ok also. The paint will look dull... the clear fix that just in case.
Shoot the clear coat. 1 light coat and a light wet coat and let it dry over night again. Sand the imperfections once dried. Done. This is using the upol clear coat ok? If you sand the clear it will get dull... makes sense anyways. Once all of smooth u can polish using a paint polisher compound. This thing is for paint not for plastic or metal (havent tried it in metal anyways) The bottle costs maybe 15 bucks. SO a lot of hand polishing and the clear will get shine again. U can take scratches in your car this way also.
If you use urethane clear thats is a mix of 3 things (clear, hardener and reducer)probably u have to clear after a few hours or the basecoat (color) and the clear will dry at different speeds and then will be a problem and you'll need to take all out and paint again until you get it right. If i was you I would get the upol. Because u can shoot it next day if you have to do some sanding. If the paint job was shoot Right u can clear after like 15 to 20 minutes w/o any problems.
U need 3 things, primer, the color paint (in the store the guy will tell you base coat - clear coat, u say yes) and the clear coat. The 3 paints needs to be equal or have the same components or the paint job will be a disaster. I have seen because it happened to me, that the paint was melting after 30 minutes. The base paint was not cured and what i thought was an acrylic water based paint it was a lacquer, and this one started melting the base coat. Had to repaint the whole fork. Been teaching myself how to paint and i still can't get it right in the practice. Some people has the talent.. i dont.
Many tricks to tell... sadly as i said before i suck as a painter hehehe
