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| RayB:
They sell devices for painting thin lines. It's a small glass jar thing you fill with paint, and then there's a metal roller wheel... The paint goes on the roller as you roll it along and it leaves a stripe on the surface you roll it on. I'm talking 1/4" or less stripe here... not sure what size was being discussed here... |
| psychotech:
..do NOT dilute the paint too much, the thinner the paint is the more it'll bleed ..!! And use a good quality roller! I had the same problem with Bombjack's (link: see signature..) speaker panel. Fortunately I tried to do the lines only on the speaker panel first.. Jack is painted mostly with water soluble acrylics and the main thing in being able to do the speaker panel & the sides without bleeding was to use the paint more or less as it is! (EDIT) Start here.. http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=61679.msg638906#msg638906 And as GAtekwriter said: "After painting, remove the tape IMMEDIATELY. ..!" Good luck! Psychotech |
| javeryh:
Thanks for all the great advice guys. I'm putting on a coat of paint tonight after I tape everything - I'll report back. I guess if I want to do multiple coats I'll have to tape each time. I DEFINITELY let the tape stay on too long - like weeks. I had to score the latex paint with a razor so it wouldn't peel off with the tape. What is your experience with the paint running after you remove the tape? I guess i'll find out... :cheers: |
| GAtekwriter:
You don't have to rip the tape off the exact second after you paint over it, but don't let it get super-tacky... when latex paint becomes super-tacky, it'll tear like paper... you may have seen this if you've ever pulled tape off of a recently painted door frame or baseboard - the tape will pull up on the paint that's bled through and the tackiness will then cause it to pull on the surrounding paint. Obviously paint will run if it's slopped on to much - pulling the tape off will only give it a place to run. Since you're painting a "moveable" object, you could consider turning the painted area so that if paint is going to run, it's going to run in the opposite direction of the tape... does that make sense? If the tape has been put on properly, the capillary effect won't occur. Any spaces not sufficiently taped will pull in the paint, even against gravity. (Sorry to turn this into a physics discussion!) Again, it goes back to properly applying tape or using a paint shield and then getting it away from the paint before it gets too tacky. And yes, weeks of leaving tape will definitely pull paint away. And, to keep kicking this dead horse, when putting on the tape, be sure to limit how much of your fingers touch the sticky side... the oils from your skin will cause the tape to not stick properly. Most pros don't tape, but if you watch some that do, you'll see that when they tape manually, they won't apply the little 1-2" of starting tape because that's where fingers have torn it off. They'll use it as a tail and leave it dangling as a pull-tab. Feel like you could start painting for a living with all this info?? :) Jim |
| javeryh:
Grrr... didn't work. Not only did the pink paint run into the black, but removing the painter's tape completely stripped the layer of black paint I had applied previously. I'm changing my color scheme to accomodate this little problem... the 3/4" strips going down the back of the cabinet are now going to be pink to match the back panel. This is the spot I'm having trouble with: See the black strip? I'm going to make it pink now. It will be up against the wall so it won't matter but I'm still a bit annoyed. |
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