Plasti dip has air bubbles?

[clarkmcc]

Sprayed my RAM and PSU today with Plasti DIp and air bubbles are popping up everywhere?!? Ugh why? Am I doing something wrong?

[terrytek]

It's just like painting.

[AlwaysFSX]

Did you just spray until completely coated or did you do several light coats?

[clarkmcc]

Several light coats

 

Did you just spray until completely coated or did you do several light coats?

[Enderman]

You put too much on at a time.

You need to make it look like something like this:

 

Extremely light powdery coats. Do one coat, let it dry 30 mins, do another, repeat. It should take you about 20-40 coats before it is completely opaque. You should only spray lightly for about two seconds per coat. Do not keep the spray can still in one spot, pan it slowly across from left to right.

[W-L]

Several light coats

 

There are two methods which can vary depending on how you approach it, very very many light coats like Enderman suggested giving it a nice evenly texture finish or wetting the entire surface but not so much to create runs or bubbles which give a larger flatter texture. Depending on coverage it should take around 3-5 coats, with plasti-dip you need to be very concious of spray distance and movement of the can, more so than paint I find since it's a rubber product it starts tacking up faster than regular spray paint. It also helps to place the items down on a surface and spray on it rather than hanging it since it prevents runs if you try wetting the entire surface.

[clarkmcc]

Thanks a lot. Ill try it.

 

You put too much on at a time.

You need to make it look like something like this:

 

 

Extremely light powdery coats. Do one coat, let it dry 30 mins, do another, repeat. It should take you about 20-40 coats before it is completely opaque. You should only spray lightly for about two seconds per coat. Do not keep the spray can still in one spot, pan it slowly across from left to right.

 

 

There are two methods which can vary depending on how you approach it, very very many light coats like Enderman suggested giving it a nice evenly texture finish or wetting the entire surface but not so much to create runs or bubbles which give a larger flatter texture. Depending on coverage it should take around 3-5 coats, with plasti-dip you need to be very concious of spray distance and movement of the can, more so than paint I find since it's a rubber product it starts tacking up faster than regular spray paint. It also helps to place the items down on a surface and spray on it rather than hanging it since it prevents runs if you try wetting the entire surface.

[Enderman]

Thanks a lot. Ill try it.

Here are a few more pics for guidance

This is what you dont want to do:

 

This is after about 3-5 coats:

 

This is after about 10:

 

This is after about 20-30:

 

 

And finally this is what it looks like after you are done:

 

Hope this helps a little

[clarkmcc]

Here are a few more pics for guidance

This is what you dont want to do:

 

This is after about 3-5 coats:

 

This is after about 10:

 

This is after about 20-30:

 

 

And finally this is what it looks like after you are done:

 

Hope this helps a little

Looks good thahnks!

[Enderman]

Looks good thahnks!

Youre welcome

[wildgg]

you need a lot of patience with this stuff, so i gues you used a spray can? 

 

so when i used plasti dip from a spray can 1, you need to shake it everytime you gonna use it. 2, if you hold the spray can horizontal you gonna get alot of air mixed with the paint. 3, when you start spraying, spray the first bit on a paper or something so that the little tube inside of the can, can fill up. if you don't, you get to much air in it.

 

this is how i did it, (i'm not a prof in painting but this worked for me when painting my gpu's)

1. shake the can for a good minute(especially for first use).

2.get a old news paper or something and spray on it till the paint comes out nice( not to much obviously but just to fill up the tube that's inside the spraycan)

3.start spraying a light coat(you still can see the original color of your RAM/PSU) ( Second coat you can just see the original color ) and you just keep going with light coats till your happy with the result.

4. wait about 20-30min between every coat!

if you keep repeating these steps you should be fine.

 

again this is how i did it, and it worked for me.

[hong1204]

Here are a few more pics for guidance

 

Hope this helps a little

 

 

Does plasti dip texture all looks like that? It looks pretty awful to me with all the little holes

[Enderman]

Does plasti dip texture all looks like that? It looks pretty awful to me with all the little holes

It is a matte finish, not glossy.

That was a really close up image, this is more what it looks like irl:

 

 

It is textured, not flat. The smoothness will also depend on the material you paint. In these images I was painting a rubber tube, but if you paint a flat surface it will look much different.

[wildgg]

yea it depends on the material you paint on,: my 760 shroud

 

[hong1204]

It is a matte finish, not glossy.

That was a really close up image, this is more what it looks like irl:

 

 

 

 

It is textured, not flat. The smoothness will also depend on the material you paint. In these images I was painting a rubber tube, but if you paint a flat surface it will look much different.

ah, irl pictures is better.. I guess the flexible tube made the plasti dip looks rough, other pics i saw on internet looks smoother.

 

yea it depends on the material you paint on,: my 760 shroud

 

 

Is it smooth to touch?

[Enderman]

ah, irl pictures is better.. I guess the flexible tube made the plasti dip looks rough, other pics i saw on internet looks smoother.

 

Is it smooth to touch?

Before I painted my H100i I did a small test on a piece of latex tubing...it looked way smoother.

So yeah its definitely the type of material you paint on.

[wildgg]

ah, irl pictures is better.. I guess the flexible tube made the plasti dip looks rough, other pics i saw on internet looks smoother.

 

Is it smooth to touch?

yes it is smooth, like people said before it all depends on the material. 

 

but in this case it's about a PSU and ram, so i would say if you get airbubles on the psu you painting it the wrong way. painting ram sticks can be difficult, but again it depends what ram he's painting and what kind of surface it is

[W-L]

Does plasti dip texture all looks like that? It looks pretty awful to me with all the little holes

 

It is a textured finish so it will occur slightly but depending on the method you can get more or less texture, it also has to do with the lighting since plasti-dip tends to show up grainy in photos if there isn't bright lighting up over it, I have a panel that I painted a while ago and it's pretty smooth and flat similar to a very fine orange peel texture other than one or two spots that had a bit of texture.