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Remove Large Fresh Runs with Scraper & Tru-Swipes

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How to Fix Paint Runs in Every Situation! Make Your Mistake Disappear.

What happens here

For larger, thicker fresh paint runs or spits (within 24 hours of application), first use a carbide-bladed scraper, such as the Linbide Scraper. Gently scrape across the top of the run to shave off the raised portion. The extremely sharp blade will effectively reduce the bulk of the run. Afterwards, use a Tru-Swipe swab to smooth out any remaining edges or smaller imperfections, preparing the surface for a seamless re-spray.

Goal: Effectively remove larger, fresh paint runs.

Tools and materials

  • Carbide-bladed Scraper Linbide — Shaving off the bulk of larger paint runs
  • Tru-Swipe Swabs True Green Products — Smoothing out residual imperfections after scraping
  • Fresh Latex Paint Runs/Spits N/A — The imperfections to be removed

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there on john let's start with uh this guy right up there right here we go i'm just gonna take that swab and work it around a little bit and get that solution on there and it's gonna start melting down that acrylic we just wanna we can work it around a little bit and we can see the white color kind of starting to come through on some of those work around just all over those ridges there and the beauty of this is you don't have those raised profiles like you're going to have if you were wet sanding and it's not curling up like it would if it were wet sanding that right there is getting pretty darn smooth you can use another swab just to clean it up that right there if that were the only spit right there i would be happy coding over the top of that and it's gonna look pretty darn good so it's amazing so got so that was a that was a really really large spit right there i created by taking the actual tip out of a graco handheld spraying it it throws some massive spits on there typically we're not going to be dealing with spits that big on a door um you're not going to have to do so much rubbing and wiping but right there i mean i can't even feel any ridges on that at all yeah so do you think if you sprayed that right there you're probably not going to see that no not at all in fact last week we had a door we were messing around with some new tips from a tip manufacturer and one of them just left this big old spit right in the middle of this smooth panel door so stop dried we went grabbed a true swipe pulled it off masked off just that panel and sprayed it with a handheld sprayer and i think it took longer to set up and clean up that handheld sprayer than it did to actually melt down that one run and make the thing look like it had never happened so now we're going to take these wipes and they come in little like i don't know wet wipe things and and where we've got some of these imperfections here you can even take that white and work it almost like it was sandpaper to help smooth out some of those imperfections and again the beauty of this is that this was only sprayed an hour or less ago and we've completely smoothed out some of those imperfections it's ready to re-spray and it's just the amount of time it saves is absolutely amazing i'm going to show you right here in the edge of the overspray have john just take one of the wipes and just you'll see how fast it'll cut through just the over spray itself so you can see how fast that white just cuts right…

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