[Spridgets] primers....thinking out loud

[Frank Clarici]

The soap and water wash is to clean the dust off the car.
You can use final prep or wax/grease remover instead.
Also watch the etching primers, they do not like body filler over 
etching primers. Or so the label says.
I etch, epoxy, then surface/filler prime.
Also give long hard thoughts to a base/clear paint job.
Touch ups are near impossible or very time consuming.
My son was a base/clear man for a few years but WHEN, not IF the base 
clear got a chip or scratch, the touch up was worse than the damage.
Now he, like me, use the single stage urethane paint.
Need a scratch or chip touched up, just do it and wet sand the spot the 
next day, you never see it.
But, I am just thinking out loud Bud, just letting you know what I have 
learned about base/clears. I wish my Jag was never clear coated because 
now 4 years old, there are chips in the clear and it's just not possible 
to touch it up and make it look good.
Just think, the car is all painted and shiny and during assembly you 
slip with a screw driver or wrench and chip the paint where the mirror 
goes on the door. Gawd I hate it when I do that! Good thing it was 
single stage.

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Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ