I just recently did a fair amount of body work on an Elise S2, and you
must use a 2 part urethane primer with flex agent.
And if you are interested I have S2 Exige style rear wings, vent covers,
front a diffuser, and many other custom parts at better prices than
eliseparts
Andrei
Daniel Shane wrote:
>Hi All,
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>First I'd like to thank everybody for the help in finding a Delorean. I'm
>now the owner of 4754 and it should be winging it's way back to me in the UK
>by September. I can wait !!!!
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>Nothing to do with Deloreans this question but it's kind of related as It's
>a problem I have repairing my Lotus. I know there are newsgroups for Lotus'
>but you guys seem to know everything so I'd thought I'd ask.
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>I have let my girlfriend use my Elise so that se cant complain about me
>getting a Delorean. Bit of a mistake I think as my girlfriend decided to
>spin my Elise into some parked cars and in the process has damaged some of
>the fibreglass. Now I have repaired fibreglass before and repainted it in
>the past with no problems but im now having some trouble.
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>The car appears to have been painted in the past with cellulose paint. I
>have cleaned and dried the areas I have repaired but where I have rubbed
>through the paint when I spay primer onto it it bubbles up. This only
>happens along the line of where only layer of paint meats the other.
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>I think it's due to the fact that there are thinners in the primer and it's
>reacting with the cellulose in the old paint.
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>Does anybody know how to stop this happening. I've heard there is a barrier
>type spray I can use but does anyone know it's name ????
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>Many Thanks
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>Dan
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