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I put on 3 runny coats, and I didn’t go down to 400 everywhere. I’m pretty sure I have plenty of build on this job.
Now i know why my painter buddy in town here said he has spent as many as 10 days polishing clear! :blink:
looks good brian.
I’d love to get my hands on one of those hot staple things whenever I get another crack repair.
that little image in there is handy. a nice simple view of the dampers and whatnot.
thanks
[quote=”Andy T” post=18864]As above, I’d never go as high as 400, unless it was as a first stage in removing a run or similar large defect.
But a good way to ensure you remove all the sanding scratches from a previous grit is to finish each one in a slightly different direction. That way, when you’ve finished (for example) blocking with 2000 in a North – South direction, any marks from the previous grit (where you went East – West) will stand out like a sore thumb.
It doesn’t have to be such a dramatic change in direction, that was just for ease of example, as even a 10 degree change will do the trick.[/quote]
that makes sense. I suppose when you’re ramping up the grits the direction doesn’t have to be an X pattern, like I have been doing.
thanks
I knew most booths had giant burners, but I thought newer ones recirculated a lot of the air… huh.
what exactly is a ‘scrubber?’ what is allowed into the environment as far as exhaust goes? the rules are pretty lax in AK, but I’m sure there must be something relatively simple to install to improve things on my homemade booth.
I’m extremely leery of that happening. I take WAY too long polishing, but I have never had that problem yet….. there’s a first time for everything…
gotcha. well I just wasted some time sanding on this god forsaken honda. I’ll see if I can shine it up good without reclearing.
I knew Jim’s a custom guy, I just took his advice without fully understanding it. I read guys starting with 800 or thereabouts, and he said he uses 400 dry to flatten it down. Now I see he wasn’t taking it all the way up to a shine from that course of grit.
thanks fellas
I only have up to 1500g available in town, so that’s what I’m stuck with on this job. I can sand up a little finer to perfect it later, if I feel like it, but this job isn’t a biggy.
Thanks for the info.
regarding the starting at 400, that’s where Jim C said he starts to flatten clear down. it was already quite flat over most of it, with a handful of runs…. I used the run poly trick starting at 220, then 400 over the whole panel and up.
I guess I should flatten with a finer grit to start, and just not shoot any runs! 4 or 5 coats of nice heavy orange peel would have been funner to me than sanding a few runs…
looking super straight. nice work.
Looks like a great project to me.
I’m starting with worse :stoned
Lookin’ real nice, bloke :rock
sweet! they didn’t offer a 4 door or a diesel on those trucks here. they still don’t offer diesel…. arch
give him a break, he’s handicapped.
:clappy
yeah! we need a comment thread. :compsmash
[quote=”Ben” post=18246]Looks good so far…
….now all you need is a mullet[/quote]
YES! a chain steering wheel, and a foot gas pedal.