Re: If dust was progress I'd be done.


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Posted by gmharris [71.105.36.203] on Friday, April 25, 2014 at 19:39:57 :

In Reply to: Re: If dust was progress I'd be done. posted by Desoto61 [138.162.0.41] on Friday, April 25, 2014 at 14:31:32 :

The manufacturer's product data sheet will tell you what you need to know. But, my guess is everything will stick together just fine without going back to bare metal, unless you just have way to much stuff on. Then it best to get back to the metal and do some more body work.

You need to coat the filler with the surfacer or whatever you are using. I don't have much use for glaze unless you have some pin holes to fill and those should be covered too with the sealer/surfacer.

Bring the low spots up with filler. Use a long block to level. When you think you have it right, a coat of primer for color and then mist with contrasting primer from a spray can or get some purpose-made stuff from the body shop supply store. Sand off the contrasting color to make sure you don't have any low spots.

If you have shallow low spots, then you can try to fill them with primer/surfacer, hi-build or whatever it's called. But, remember, they only produce a coat that is thousandths of inch inch thick depending on how they are thinned. So, that's as much of a low spot you are going to fill with each coat. If you need to apply more than a few coats, more filler/body work is needed.

I used a two part epoxy DTS (direct to substrate)sealer/surfacer, and nothing else but filler. Sealer/surfacer is the same stuff, but the sealer uses a little more reducer to make it flow better.

Once you get everything figured out, you will be on to the next phase, painting, with its own set of problems.



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