| If you can see what the speck or the hair is, then it's in the lacquer, cos if it was in the paint it would just show up as a red lump of something.
If it's in the lacquer it's easy, just get some 1500 grade wet and dry, use it wet and just sand the affected areas untill the imperfection is out. You'll be able to tell when you're sanding lacquer because the water you're using to lubricate the wet and dry will be milky from the sanded particles. If you go through to the colour coat the water will go....red, funnily enough!
If the specks and hairs or whatever come out by sanding the lacquer coat that's fair enough. You'll now be left with a matt patch. Get yourself a can or lacquer from a paint factor or Halfords and just spray over the matt area with fresh lacquer, build it up with a light coat first, then a couple of heavier ones, blending the new lacquer across the old lacquer (you might decide that it's easier to just lacquer the whole panel).
Sounds more difficult than it is, just make sure that the panel is squeaky clean before you relacquer.
If the specks are in the paint, you'll need to get the right colour to match the existing paint. This can be a bugger because Ducati's paint codes don't always match when a paint factor makes up the colour. It's better to take a panel to the paint factors and have them match it for you. They'll make you up an aerosol (which should be enough for an area about the size of a car wing), but if you've got any more to do than that get all the aerosols you need at the same time to be sure of a good match.
Then simply do the same thing as for the lacquer procedure, you'll need to sand through the colour coat to get the imperfections out, so when that's done and the panel is squeaky clean, build up the paint in three layers, let it cure then start with the lacquer.
Leaveit about a week, the t-cut and polish it.
Sounds hard, but you don't have to be great at spraying...you just have to be patient sanding and flatting back.  |