Repaint fresh paint

super99 · May 27, 2021

I painted the 1550 yesterday with Van Sickle enamel paint. I had primed it with John Deere primer that is off yellow. That was a mistake, if you miss a little spot, it stands out like a sore thumb. Looking it over closely this morning, I just need to repaint it to cover all of the thin and missed spots. The can says you can recoat when paint is dry. It's been 12 hours and it's dry to the touch, can I repaint it today or should I wait another day before painting it again??

Stephen Newell · May 27, 2021

If you can press your thumb hard into the paint and it doesn't leave a print then you could lightly scuff sand it and spray it again.

Steve@Advance · May 27, 2021

That's the way it should be done.

Several light coats is always better than one heavy coat.

When I paint something I want to come out nice, I have the paint in one hand, the drop light in the other. That way I can light it from all angles.

If this is enamel, it will take a long time to fully dry, especially if put on heavy. Dry to the touch is good enough for recoat. Once finished it will have to fully cure to be hard and skin resistant, could be months with some enamels. Had some that never fully cured.

big tee · May 27, 2021

Years ago I was the painter at Donaldsons and painted thousands of air cleaners and if I screwed up and got some to light they would come back around and I would give them another coat--but they went through a paint drying oven at over 200 degrees. There is a big difference between dry paint and cured paint--if you paint something too soon it will orange peel big time-that is when the bottom coat wasn't cured and you spray another coat and as the top coat dries it shrinks the bottom coat--Good Luck---Tee

Goose · May 27, 2021

I'd go ahead now.

Some of the best paint jobs I did when we were still using single stage acrylic enamel were I shot the paint in the evening, let it set overnight, next morning I decided I wasn't satisfied, and shot another wet coat.

John in Ct · May 27, 2021

It depends. Some paint can't be recoated because the reducer or hardner in the new coat will cause the original coat to wrinkle and lift. High end expensive paint with a hardner you should be ok but cheap paint without hardner who knows. Can you see an instruction sheet for your paint. It will tell you when it is safe to recoat and if you have to rescuff .

super99 · May 27, 2021

Today wasn't long enough, so I'll try again tomorrow afternoon to repaint it. It was supposed to rain all day today, but when I got up it still hadn't started, so I put the 8' Bush Hog on the 1850 and mowed the roadsides so it would look good for the weekend. Just starting to rain as I put the tractor away. I needed a haircut, so I went to Muscatine and got that taken care of. When I went to leave the barber shop, my pickup was dead. Wife was gone for the day, so I called for a tow to the repair shop. Had to wait a half hour or so before he rescued me. I took a nap in the office while they unloaded it and decided the starter was gone. $414 later, I was back on the road, stopped at Harbor Freight and home. It was too late at 4 pm to start painting, so I dismounted the old front tires for the 1550 and mounted the new tires. Wife got home and we went to the local cemetary and put flowers on my Grandparents graves. Tomorrow morning, we have to go the the Quad Cities and put flowers on graves in 3 cemetaries, so maybe tomorrow afternoon I can get back to it.

Stephen Newell · May 28, 2021

Waiting won't be a problem for enamel but you really should scuff sand the paint before you put another coat on. Use a 220 or finer grit paper. The scratches created by the sandpaper will help the paint bond better.

BarnyardEngineering · May 28, 2021

(reply to post at 08:43:35 05/27/21)

sually paint cans have instructions, "recoat within X hours or after XXX hours."

Rustoleum it's within 2 hours or after 24 hours if I'm not mistaken. Any time in between the solvents in the fresh paint will often reactivate the old paint and cause it to peel up. I've ruined many a paint job being impatient like that.

SVcummins · May 28, 2021

Ive had good luck covering the primer .

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