Blending single stage acrylic laquer

[IndyCuda]

My car has single stage acrylic laquer. I am wanting to repaint the roof. Is it possible to strip the roof and spray it? Can it be blended in the pillars?

[RzeroB]

Acrylic lacquer eh? Lacquer is going away because it is not very environmentally friendly in the way it cures by evaporation. Too bad for the painter, because it is relatively easy to work with and doing spot or panel repairs is one of the things that everyone loved about working with lacquer. If you needed to repaint a panel, in your case the roof, you could sand it down, reshoot and blend the panel. The key was shooting a "step-down" test panel on a strip of sheetmetal so figure the number of coats needed to match the surrounding panels. Depending on how old your current paint is and the condition of it, you should be able to do exactly what you describe with lacquer.

[jimynick]

I worked as a body man in a GM store for 8 yrs in the 70's and lacquer was the factory coating. When you're doing your roof, prep it and be sure to feather-edge very carefully where the new and old meet. Lacquer is a b!tch for sinking into ANY scratch that you leave and make sure your primer hasn't bridged because you put it on too dry or you'll see it sink- after you've painted it. The secret to a good blend was to overlap it the normal amount and on the final coat, we'd quickly dump out most of the paint in the cup and dump in 4-5 ozs of slower thinners. The remaining paint would give it colour and the slow thinners would allow the paint to bite in better and have more gloss before buffing it back to a shine. i painted the frt end of my mom's Monte Carlo at least 3 times and hardly had to buff at all doing it the way I just described. Good luck

[DocMel]

I used to shoot laquer back in the day,  late 70's-early 80's   I agree, laquer will show every single imperfection.  Spraying can be tricky in heavy humid environments

Laquer will fade fairly quickly over the years.   A gradual and good blend will be key here