Technical Best cleaner just prior to Top Coat ?

Have tried several cleaners just prior to applying the top finish coat & have experienced the following : have a ( film) from wax/ grease remover, lacquer thinner cuts into the material too much, water doesn,t do ... Your ideas ? How about acetone ? Gene

 

I always used prep-sol, DuPont I believe. It's been awhile. In fact ran out last summer and threw the can out before I seen who made it and I forgot.

You wipe on and let dry but I always 2 hand it, one wiping it on and the other right behind wiping it off.

I do all prep chemicals that way, 2 handed.

Done it that way for almost 40 yrs.

 

Soap and water.

 

My final wipe down is with alcohol, which they say you are NOT supposed to do. Don't tell anybody.

-Abone.

 

Southern Polyurethanes offer both a Solvent based Wax and Grease Remover as well as a Waterborne Wax and Grease Remover-I just finished painting my Car black, and I attribute y lack of problems (fisheye. etc.) to the Waterborne W&G Remover-I washed it down three to four times with it before Painting (and followed that with those blue Scott Paper Towels)-I put on 10 coats of clear-no problems-

 

I always use Turpentine

 

I like to wash mine in in soap & water the day before - Dawn soap Just before painting I use 710 -1 Wax & grease remover from Southern Polyurethanes Read the instructions let it set for 1/2 hour after wiping I am happy with the results

 

Enamel Reducer

 

Prep Sol...your paint jobber will have what you need

 

Both alcohol and a wax and grease remover
I have also used glass cleaner

 

I talked to a painter this weekend and he told me Prep-Sol is a major cause of fish eye. never heard that before . Have used it for years.

 

Used to use Dupont 3812 reducer.

 

Do you mean before the first of several coats or before the last of several coats? It matters.
What product exactly are you cleaning?