Originally Posted by
allend
Having no amount of spray painting experience and just a humble tinkerer and DYI'r I have gotten runs and orange peel when using Spray Max products. I have been impressed with how easy each were to fix. So yes I did rub out with 2000 grit wet paper (coarser grit on a run) and used a hand glaze polish to boot. Here's a bit of peau d'orange I missed on Holdsworth Sirocco I did from scratch.
Wonder re wisdom and longevity of spraying clear coat over bare steel. Perhaps someone has experience with this.
Spraying clear coat over bare steel is certainly possible, but don't expect the best adhesion or durability. Clear needs something to grab onto, something with "tooth" to it. Steel is usually pretty smooth. Plus, along with the mechanical adhesion offered by a base coat color, clear coat also needs chemical adhesion, where the solvents in the clear penetrate into the color coat below. Bare steel doesn't really offer either of these, but I've had surprisingly good luck clearing directly over bare steel, regardless of what I learned in school
