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Old 12-04-2015, 11:24 PM   #1
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need help figuring out why my paint failed

I have had a major paint failure and it is boggling my mind. please give me your input if you have any ideas as to why this happened.

i painted over my original school bus yellow with a tractor paint of some kind years ago, it held up great.

then years later, i sprayed a coat of Miller equipment enamel, it held up great for years, but faded quite a bit,

I just put a fresh coat on my bus this summer. over the top of the enamel, i used a clear coat/uv protectant/ hardener called break through by ppg. i sprayed the paint and clear coat. it was august in idaho, warm and dry. i allowed days in between application. everything was perfect..... and then....

just last week i had my bus in the shop. some time between dropping it off and picking it up, this happened:

somehow the paint lifted in a couple spots. whats really crazy is that it lifted past all the previous layers of paint, lifting the original paint all the way to the metal.

it was a heated shop, my first thought was it was directly under a heater for some time and then moved out into 20 degree temp. but the bay that my bus was in doesn't have a heater over it.

there was nothing that came in contact with my bus....liquid, solid etc....

there were a few spots where i didn't feather sand the edge of the existing paint quite enough before spraying, but for this to happen?

if anyone has any ideas please share. thanks
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Old 12-05-2015, 07:40 AM   #2
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I'm thinkin' paints were not compatible? Not all paints work together, they can attack each other...you'll get fish eyes, orange peel etc.
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Old 12-05-2015, 08:28 AM   #3
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idk, but as a guess, i think thats from contracting and expansion of the metal. too many layers contracting or expanding at different rates.

my 2 cents
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Old 12-05-2015, 08:56 AM   #4
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Was the first paint or clear coat an acrylic? Enamels, as a rule of thumb, react differently over acrylics than acrylics over enamels
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Old 12-05-2015, 10:29 AM   #5
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it just seems odd that those two paints would sit together for years with no problems. i can't remember what the first layer of paint was. but that first layer sat under the enamel for years. and this second layer of enamel sat on top of all that for months. i would think that if paints were going to react, they'd do so within the cure time of the paint.
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Old 12-05-2015, 10:30 AM   #6
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.....also there was no clear coat under any paint, just on top of the second layer of enamel.
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Old 12-05-2015, 10:36 AM   #7
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I read your initial post, but the pictures make it look like you painted over galvanized sheet metal. Or perhaps the previous paint was a silver colour? Or the peeling pulled back all layers of the paint to expose galvanized? IDK..

I'm just wondering because the peeling would make perfect sense if the paint was layered over un-prepped galvanized steel..

Probably not, but it's worth ruling out some more options...
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Old 12-05-2015, 02:34 PM   #8
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Paint and galvanized dont get along well. It doesnt look like the steel was prepped correctly.
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Old 12-05-2015, 03:00 PM   #9
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that is the original bus body you're seeing there, not a paint. the peeling pulled off original 1986 bus yellow paint. thats what racks my brain, school bus paint is bomber.
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Guess I've never seen factory steel being galvanized.
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Old 12-05-2015, 04:20 PM   #11
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At least you'll have a clean slate for the next coat.
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Old 12-06-2015, 06:59 AM   #12
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Wow, impressive, the chrome yellow is impossible to get off normally

Now when I was removing some stickers on the bus I accidentally razor bladed to deep and it came off in big chunks and the steel was galvanized under it also

My egumikated guess is the new paint chemically soaked up through the layers, encapsulated the paint down to galvinizing and just "popped" loose due to metal shrinking

Something in new paint job must of chemically reacted with galvinizing and just let go of adhesion factor

Can you hit areas with rubber hammer and have more paint pop off?
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Old 12-06-2015, 10:35 PM   #13
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This ain't nothing to complain about! That metal looks so pristine, at least your not rustin out! I wish my bus was made of galvanized steel. strip all the paint and it'll look like a delorean!
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Old 12-07-2015, 08:45 AM   #14
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??? Looks just like galvanized that was not properly etched to begin with. Any kind if paint will let go and come off in big flakes if not.
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This ain't nothing to complain about! That metal looks so pristine, at least your not rustin out! I wish my bus was made of galvanized steel. strip all the paint and it'll look like a delorean!
But, where would you find a flux capacitor big enough?
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Old 12-07-2015, 03:08 PM   #16
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And how in the devil will it get to 88mph??????
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And how in the devil will it get to 88mph??????
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