I just completed the baby’s furniture project. It entailed sanding my wifes old baby furniture and repainting for our soon-to-be daughter.
I was meticulous about making it look as factory as possible. I even built a “paint room” in my garage.
I finished spraying the final coat last night. Today I found what appears to be a 6″ x 8″ area of very fine steel wool particles on the top (naturally) of the dresser. Short of sanding them out and re-painting are there any tricks/tips/options out there that you guys can help me with???
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I'd use paint stripper instead of sandpaper. Sanding new paint sounds like a sticky mess.
Oil-base or water-base paint?
If the paint is that fresh, you should be able to remove the paint in that localized area with solvent on a lint-free rag (naphtha should work for the WB, lac thinner for the OB.....or lac thinner for either).
Then do a little wet sanding (water for lube) with some 320 or 400 to feather the area back in. Then reshoot the entire top, making sure you apply enough wet mils so that there is adequate wet material present to self level and blend back in.
However, with finish that fresh on the entire piece, you may have difficulty taping off the edge of the top so that no overspray gets on the rest of the piece. Blue tape *may* allow you to get away with this, if you have everything ready to rock before you apply the tape and leave it on only as long as it takes you to shoot the new. Any longer and you may damage or pull the fresh paint off.
Another possibility would be to wrap some plastic sheeting tightly around the carcass just below the top and tape it only to itself while you spray. That would actually be safer, if applicable to your situation.
Edit: If you use water for a sanding lube, make sure the surface is completely dry before you'd apply an OB over it again.
Knowledge is power, but only if applied in a timely fashion.
Edited 3/8/2005 11:30 am ET by GOLDHILLER
Edited 3/8/2005 11:34 am ET by GOLDHILLER
it's oil based.
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Sorry.And the sooner you remove the offenders.....the better/easier it will be.The only other "easy" option I can think of is if you want to wait at least ten days or so, then lightly wet sand the area (400 or 600 grit) to remove the offenses, then continue to lightly wet sand the rest of the top...and then try buffing out the result with some automotive glazing compound or the like. (Not to be confused with rubbing compound. Glazing compound is what is used for final rubout on auto finishes.) But.....if this should fail for some reason (like you sand or rub thru)....you're back to square one anyway.Whether this latter option holds any promise depends upon the size of those shreds of wool and just how deeply they have sunk into the finish while it was wet..or wasn't. Might be only shallowly bedded. Can't say from here.Knowledge is power, but only if applied in a timely fashion.Edited 3/8/2005 12:10 pm ET by GOLDHILLER
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right on the surface, in fact I could grap them with tweezers. I like the options you most recently posted. I think I will try that approach. Thanks!!-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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I suppose the finishe has hardened? If it weren't you could maybe put a plastic bag over a magent and try to remove the slivers that way, since they're on the surface.
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Dan,
I do that when I get metal flakes in my eye.
It occasionally works, sometimes the surface tension is too much.
-zen
The guy I work with used a magnetic screwdriver to remove steel splinters from his eye. Makes sense--better than digging around with tweezers!