Day one on the books. Spent all day Monday guide coating and blocking. Came up with a couple dozen low spots. Washed the car down and slid it back in the garage and started the two part putty coating and 17" board with 180 dry on those spots. The rest of the car is a combo of 220 wet and 400 wet depending on the surface.
Guide coating will really help bring things to the surface that you would not otherwise catch until it had the clear coat on. By then it is too late. Today is going to be CRAZY as we have to run all over town as well. It is 5:30 a.m., heading out there now. Going to wrap up the putty coat, tape and paper it all back up and put two more wet slick coats of primer on. Will let that set out in the sun today and will shoot a guide coat on tonight.
Wed will be a repeat of today but it will take longer to go around as I will be cutting it with 500 per the PPG material data procedure.
I am debating if I will wait to put the sealer on just before the top coat, or do it now and block it down. I want to make sure none of the old material that had been used by the lousy body shop that had installed the quarters bleeds through. I suspect some laquer products were used between layers of filler on the sail panel bonding surface.
My arms already feel like they are going to fall off!
|