Jeremy D wrote:
Thanks heaps for the reply Alan, good to know a fix is possible. What type of epoxy did you use? Did you thin it at all? I have some boatcote I use for pore filling and I have their thinning agent. Thinking that might work well to get down in under the chipping.
I used Z-Poxy, but only because I've got plenty of it here that I'm using up. Botecoat should do the same job. I'll be buying Botecoat after the Z-Poxy to try it out.
The real thing is just trying to minimize it happening in the first place, maybe if it's something that happens to you more than once remove the tape while the paint it still tacky and before it cures, then it won't do this. There are a few jobs where I do this myself as the point goes over the tape edge and then when you peel back the tape you're lifting more than what you intended to. Lifting the tape while it's tacky (not wet, but not cured, tacky) lets you pull the tape pull up without wrecking the edge, just dont drag it across the painted part! Also, always peel the tape over itself. Don't lift it straight up, pull it back so the smooth side is close to the opposite smooth side and the sticky part facing up making a V shape.
I've had it happen where the mirotone has built up, then I've drilled through it and then put a screw into the hole and the mirotone cracked with the screw pressure. I've also had it happen when I've re drilled out tuner holes of a guitar with mirotone. On the poly 2k products I've used it's never been an issue, the mirotone just chipped away and I'm talking 1cm long chips! Luckily it was under where the tuners were to mount in and I was able to fill with epoxy, block back and polish and wonderfully it turned out invisible. I did it and I cannot even see where it happened.
These days I over drill the tuner holes ever so slightly so I don't have to clear them out. But not enough that they are sloppy either. I can't tell you the drill bit size, it's an offset I've programmed on the CNC and I cannot recall it off the top of my head.
