I now have a car all most. still lacking the grill, valance and bumpers a few pieces of trim yet. but it runs and stops now and all the big panels are on there. so let the sanding began.
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- Thread starter John ED Renstrom
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Don't forget this is what we started with. We received the car in jun 2019. Still had to finish the Pontiac and a 70 olds in between getting it running and stopping, before i could start on it. But glad to be on the down hill side of this project.
we are finely ready to do the last prime for finish sanding . in spite of how it looks there is not a flat panel on this car it is all compound curves. drives you crazy
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we now have it one color. not the shine I was looking for but it all the same color
Philip Scanio
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ED, why grey primer instead of red?
I like to mix my colors up this way i can tell when I cut threw. to a different layer. It's all the same brand of primer. The red has a coarser filler in in it and its like sanding rocks. The gray is a finer and it does not fill as much. I normaly mix them 50/50 to get the best of both worlds but this time i added a gt of gray to the mix to get a smoother coat for my finish sanding. As I'll be painting black my base color will not make a difference. Each of us do things that make no since to others. But my eyes being what they are i find the color contrasts is easier to work with.
Philip Scanio
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Thanks. I always learn from you.
we have let the primer dry out while we cut in the undersides of the car. time to start finish sanding. this is what we were talking about with different colors. we are using a 6 inch disk with 400 grit paper to finish sand. cut the air down so that the tool will just pow the disk. and us a vary light presser while we guide it across the hood. if we have a dark rough spot is low. if its high we cut int the under layer of primer. in this case we cut threw to the layer under the dark notice the dark ring. there is the brace under the hood in this spot. which is putting a little presser on the skin. but we have gotten a clear 400 sand scratch across the spot with out cutting threw to steel so we will be flat here. the different coolers will give you the warning were your at. I know I primed over the bare with red. so in theory I could go more if I needed to but all we need a a scratch all the way across. the truth is we all ready rough blocked this spot to here all we did was expose it again with a finer scratch. but we could tell we were there.
buy the way the first time I saw this car it looked like this. I did not know that it had to be rescued for the body shop before me because the man failed to live up with his end of the bargain.
Isn't 400 too coarse for the final sanding? We used to use 600 then 800 and wipe it down with Prep Sol before painting. We didn't want sanding scratches to show through the paint.