EdLancer
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Isn't this stuff like Lankra ?
Anyone have the link to it ?
Anyone have the link to it ?
Product Review for: TouchUp 123
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How long after the application of the Touchup 123 did you polish the car?
I ask because I used Touchup 123 on my brother's black Civic and it came out looking much better but not perfect (which is what we expected). We left it alone for 2 weeks and then I did a full detail on it and we did not have any problems with the paint coming off.
I didn't use a rotary though, just a PC.
imported_steveo3002
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i see a few people mention lankra?? ive seen it around
is lankra a compund type stuff....or a solvent to wipe off the excess?
is lankra a compund type stuff....or a solvent to wipe off the excess?
Langka is a solvent (or something similar, I haven't figured out what the secret formula is yet) that you wipe on the blob from touch-up paint to level it out.
Eliminating the need for wetsanding.
I'll chime in on the touch-up 123 kit, since I had started a thread about a year ago on it. My results working with it was as dissapointing as others have mentioned here.
Both on chips (small are larger) as well as with the sand blast. I too tried applying and removing it many different ways in addition to varying the curing time still was not able to produce any other result than removing the paint that was applied.
Eliminating the need for wetsanding.
I'll chime in on the touch-up 123 kit, since I had started a thread about a year ago on it. My results working with it was as dissapointing as others have mentioned here.
Both on chips (small are larger) as well as with the sand blast. I too tried applying and removing it many different ways in addition to varying the curing time still was not able to produce any other result than removing the paint that was applied.
I just finished trying this stuff on my blue 350Z. I'm very picky about results and what most people have posted here about the the colorfill coming right off with the FTC is true.
My car has a good variety of nicks and chips of varying sizes all the way down to one that looks more like someone pressed the corner of a razor blade edge into the paint making only a tiny slit. Another chip is about the size of this letter "o" (that's the actually size) and maybe as deep as the thickness of a piece of paper. When I started it was white primer. The colorfill turned it blue and after wiping it with the FTC, it ended up light blue.
To be honest, none of the chips were repaired to my satisfaction, so I turned around and used the procedure outlined in the tutorial here on Autopia for repairing chips...
Clean the hole.
Abraid the area around the hole with 2000 unigrit on the end of a pencil eraser.
Fill with touch up paint using a toothpick. This is difficult as the touch up paint is very thick (I thinned it with laquer thinner).
Let dry for one week.
Wet sand with 1500 unigrit block, followed by 2000 unigrit wet sand paper to even the surface.
Polish with 3M Perfect-It, followed by Swirl Mark remover.
Wax or glaze.
Finished.
I have to wait a week now that the paint's been applied. I will follow up with the results. I also have a very large area of damage where some idiot chipped the paint where you open the fuel door. He must have hit it with the fuel pump nozzle. I've been slowly building up the chipped area with touch up paint and it's now ready to be wet sanded down and polished.
I have used Langka with mixed results. It seems to work better but for dark paint, it tends to make the touchup paint lighter after using the blob eliminator. Looks like you get what you pay for.
scrapser
My car has a good variety of nicks and chips of varying sizes all the way down to one that looks more like someone pressed the corner of a razor blade edge into the paint making only a tiny slit. Another chip is about the size of this letter "o" (that's the actually size) and maybe as deep as the thickness of a piece of paper. When I started it was white primer. The colorfill turned it blue and after wiping it with the FTC, it ended up light blue.
To be honest, none of the chips were repaired to my satisfaction, so I turned around and used the procedure outlined in the tutorial here on Autopia for repairing chips...
Clean the hole.
Abraid the area around the hole with 2000 unigrit on the end of a pencil eraser.
Fill with touch up paint using a toothpick. This is difficult as the touch up paint is very thick (I thinned it with laquer thinner).
Let dry for one week.
Wet sand with 1500 unigrit block, followed by 2000 unigrit wet sand paper to even the surface.
Polish with 3M Perfect-It, followed by Swirl Mark remover.
Wax or glaze.
Finished.
I have to wait a week now that the paint's been applied. I will follow up with the results. I also have a very large area of damage where some idiot chipped the paint where you open the fuel door. He must have hit it with the fuel pump nozzle. I've been slowly building up the chipped area with touch up paint and it's now ready to be wet sanded down and polished.
I have used Langka with mixed results. It seems to work better but for dark paint, it tends to make the touchup paint lighter after using the blob eliminator. Looks like you get what you pay for.
scrapser