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TROUBLESHOOTING REFINISH PROBLEMS

  CAUSE, REPAIR & PREVENTION

  PROBLEM INDEX

PROBLEM	ALSO KNOWN AS
1. Air Entrapment	Craters
2. Bleeding	Discoloration
3. Blistering	Pimples, Bubbles, Bumps
4. Blushing	Milkiness
5. Chalking	Fading, Oxidation, Weathering
6. Chemical Staining/Etching	Acid Rain, Spotting, Discoloration
7. Chipping	Nicks, Stone Pecks, Chips, Bruises
8. Color Mismatch	Off Color, Off Shade
9. Cracking	Checking, Crazing, Splitting,Alligatoring, Crowsfeet
10. Dust Contamination	Dirt in Finish
11. Edge Mapping	Edge Ringing, Featheredge Lifting
12. Fisheyes	Silicon Contamination, Cratering
13. Lifting	Shriveling, Swelling, Raising, Alligatoring, Wrinkling
14. Loss of Gloss	Hazing Dulling, Dieback, Matting, Weathering
15. Mottling	Streaking, Tiger/Zebra Stripes, Floating, Flooding
16. Orange Peel	Poor Flow, Texture
17. Peeling	Delamination, Flaking
18. Pinholing in Body Filler	Bubbles, Air Pockets
19. Rail	Dust
20. Runs/Sags	Hangers, Curtains, Signatures
21. Sanding Marks	Streaked Finish, Sandscratches
22. Sandscratches	Swelling, Sinking, Shrinkage
23. Seediness	Gritty, Dirty, Grainy, Speckled
24. Shrinkage	Bulleyes, Ringing, Edge Mapping
25. Soft Film	Slow Dry
26. Solvent Popping	Boiling, Blowing, Gassing
27. Staining/Plastic	Bleed Through Discoloration
28. Tape Tracking	Tracks
29. Transparency	Poor Hiding, Poor Coverage,Translucent
30. Water Spotting	Water Marking
31. Wrinkling	Crinkling, Puckering, Shriveling