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RE: New RED Paint....

To: Jason Raser <jasonraser@yahoo.com>, land-speed@autox.team.net,
Subject: RE: New RED Paint....
From: Theo Smit <theo.smit@dynastream.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:09:32 -0600
Yeah, I have a couple of those. They're most useful when you're doing
Bondo work, and you can buy pre-cut sandpaper sheets for them, in any
grit between 40 and about 220, from body-shop supply places. If you want
to do bodywork yourself, you need to get a big sanding block like this,
LOTS of quality sandpaper, some good bodyfiller (cheap variants have way
too much resin, not enough microballoons), and the occasional help from
someone who knows what they're doing to give you pointers on technique.

Theo

-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Raser [mailto:jasonraser@yahoo.com]
Sent: July 14, 2003 6:37 AM
To: Theo Smit; DrMayf; land-speed@autox.team.net; tigers@autox.team.net;
Alpine Mailing List
Subject: RE: New RED Paint....


Thought I'd throw in my two cents.

The last time I painted a car I used a very long stiff
sanding block.  About 12 inches long.  I was told that
it helped even out your sanding on big areas like a
hood or roof.  I liked it.

Jason


--- Theo Smit <theo.smit@dynastream.com> wrote:
> Make sure you use a hard rubber sanding block. 320
> grit silicon carbide
> wet-or-dry paper is going to remove the paint pretty
> quickly, and using
> the block will help make sure you remove the high
> spots first, anyway.
> 
> Red paint should have a very high pigment content,
> but even so it will
> be necessary to do two or three wet coats to cover
> the color underneath.
> If you didn't do a full primer coat underneath then
> it will take a
> couple more coats to really get even coloring.
> 
> Theo
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tigers@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-tigers@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of DrMayf
> Sent: July 11, 2003 7:45 AM
> To: land-speed@autox.team.net;
> tigers@autox.team.net; Alpine Mailing
> List
> Subject: New RED Paint....
> 
> 
> Well, yesterday, I sprayed paint on the SUnbeam
> shell. Awful results, in
> my
> opinion. So this morning I am going to wet sand the
> entire car to remove
> the
> nasties. Almost seems like this paint did not have
> enough pigment in it
> and
> is almost translucent. The grabber blue I sprayed in
> the cockpit seemed
> to
> be great, even though I missed a few spots. The car
> is naturally pitted
> in
> many places and I am ok with that but the other
> ...ugh. Color is ok,
> though.
> 
> I have some 300 grit or is this too coarse?
> 
> mayf


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