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Another back glass repair post

By mrm_4

4 years ago



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    #1 4 years ago

    Just got a pretty nice Firepower back glass for a resto I’m in the middle of. This glass has a few scratches.

    I paint all the black areas by hand and from the front you can’t even tell there were scratches in those parts.

    So I move on to the yellow and I did the cracks by hand. Again from the front looks awesome. But once you put light behind it, it looks extremely obvious and awful.

    So I wiped off the touch up and set up the airbrush and tried painting the entire area. Again looks amazing from the front unlit. But put some light behind and it looks like crap.

    So are you pretty much screwed when the glass is scratched or is there a technique for painting the areas that are intended for light to shine through and not make it look like crap?

    First attempt by hand. Looks fine without lighting. But awful back lit. (Didn’t take backlit pic)
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    #2 4 years ago

    I’ve fixed a few glasses on machines I got cheap. There’s no silver bullet that I know of. It’s painful trial and error until you find something you’re happy with.

    The enemy of good is better here. I remember wiping off attempts that looked pretty good, then proceeded to make it look worse and never could duplicate the pretty good attempt.

    I just fix the opaque parts and bandaid the translucent parts as well as I can... and then start hunting for a replacement glass.

    #3 4 years ago

    So basically the opaque parts are fixable but the translucent areas really cannot be repaired to look seamless?

    #4 4 years ago

    You'd have to scrape off all of the translucent area and repaint it with transparent paint, then cover it with the thin white masking.

    Every backglasss I've ever tried to do anything with ends up looking worse. Some people will touch it up and then make it opaque, it's a compromise, or put a stained gel dipped lamp behind it that's a close color. Some people just take the bulb out from the back entirely.

    BG are definitely the hardest item to touchup since you have to worry about matching the translucency as well as the color and thickness.

    3 weeks later
    #5 4 years ago

    Hi,

    There is an alternative accessible by everybody... But don't hope any miracle.
    Print water decal of the touched up picture of the area. Clear coat the printed side.
    Attach the water decal on the back of the backglass... Make it correspond with the art on the front side. Let it dry.
    Paint over the back in white. Place some final clearcoat on it.
    Place it over some light... Should be fine for small touch up.

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