Over the past week I spent a lot of time sanding out the second spray of primer coats. I sprayed it with the same old primer that we had left over because I was hoping the rough spray surface was due to factors other than age. Unfortunately it sprayed rough again. Since I had to sand a lot smooth, I [...]
After moving the car out of the garage so the primer could bake in the sun, the gas pedal broke at the weld. This happened one other time and I only put a light tack weld on it while it was still in the car. So this time, I removed it from the car which was more of a pain [...]
Here is a photo of the inflatable paint booth I used. Today I proceeded to prepare the surface by cleaning with wax and grease remover and priming it again.
I accidentally created more work for myself today by putting a big dent in the passenger side of the front fender and this was the side with the new fender! I was backing the car out of the garage to sand the primer further . Do to being stressed that day, I was not paying attention that the passenger side [...]
Unfortunately the layers of primer I sprayed laid down terrible. The surface was quite rough and took a lot of work. I’m not sure the reason behind this but maybe one of the below or a little bit of all: The primer was 15 years old but the consistency seemed fine and wanted to use it up I used an [...]
Today I prepared the car for a whole coverage of primer. I worked the sandpaper up to 320 grit over the whole body prior to priming. Then cleaned it several times with wax and grease remover. Eventually I started masking the whole car off and primed it later that day but did not take a picture.
