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Paint: Fenders on or off?

To: "fred thomas" <frede.thomas2@verizon.net>
Subject: Paint: Fenders on or off?
From: Doug Mathews <mathews@uga.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 22:21:26 -0400
List,

when I repainted my truck this last spring while I was in the auto 
collision/repair course at our Votech school, once the prier was 
applied, I wet sanded it after spraying a guide coat of black paint 
over it. This light spray let you know when you had sanded the 
surface flat and also showed up minor/major low spots.

Once you were satisfied with this, you then put down the base coat 
and once it was dry, sprayed the clear coat over this in 2 or 3 
coats.  when this was dry, I then wet sanded the truck again and then 
used a buffer and a mild abrasive, a 3M product and I don;t recall 
the number but I can get it if anyone needs it, to polish the finish 
to a very smooth and shiny finish.  Does not look bad, but being the 
"parent" of this work, I know where the warts are and boy did I learn 
a lot from this.

So, Fred, if I were to paint the TR's, I think right now if I were 
doing the work, I'd paint it all apart as an ease to buffing the 
final product.

Doug

At 04:59 PM 10/18/2005, you wrote:
>What is buffed on a paint job today, had no idea they still did 
>this, how do you properly coat all the mounting nuts & bolts without 
>tearing the paint off,  "FT"


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