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PostPosted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 9:20 pm
Restorations are not for the faint of heart. LOL
Just keep plugging away at it and one day you'll say "that's good enough - for now."

The truth is that you will always see something that could have been done better or that you wish you had done differently. The trick is not to point out these ultra minor flaws while other people are drooling over your car. :wink:
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 13, 2017 9:48 pm
sdcritter wrote:Five weeks of no progress. 2 funerals, Christmas and New Years. And wouldn't you know it, this weekend I'm sick. I may never finish this car. Discouraged.


Life has a way of getting in the way of these projects, When its not life its a lack of funds.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 9:04 am
My project started in March 2013...

This is as far as it's come,

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eventually it will be complete but it always takes a back seat to pretty much everything else lol.


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PostPosted: Sat Jan 14, 2017 3:59 pm
Sauceman wrote:My project started in March 2013...

This is as far as it's come,

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eventually it will be complete but it always takes a back seat to pretty much everything else lol.


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I wanna Know why that is ? why do friends family Kids customers every one else comes first I wants some "My Time" "for me" Projects!
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 21, 2017 7:01 pm
Finally! Back to the paint booth today. Got it all prepped and Bryan shot color and clear on several pieces that we had problems with the first time around. We fixed some sags and a few places where I didn't get the prep done properly. Progress. That's all I care about.

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 29, 2017 10:03 pm
No painting this weekend. Family obligations had us both tied up. What little time I had was spent wet sanding, cutting and buffing small parts. This part sucks because stuff like mirrors, the lower air ****, and spoiler end pieces have to be done by hand. My buffer won't get in the tight spots. They do make 3 inch kits but I'm not springing for any more tools at this point.

The process has been to wet sand with 1500, 2000, and 3000 grit. I follow that with three steps of compound from 3M. Go look for their Perfect-it stuff and you'll see what I'm using.

I think my right bicep is about twice the size of my left at this point.

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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 8:19 am
That's why we try to get the clear on without orange peel. Especially in those places where cut and buff is difficult to impossible.
After doing what you are doing this time, you will know which areas you want the clear slick as sprayed.
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 10:23 am
Yep. That's why I was asking questions about how to spray that 2104 over in Body and Paint.

This has been a learning experience for me. While I agree the guy shooting the paint has to be a craftsman the guy I've really learned to respect is the body man. He's the one that makes the difference on how the final product looks, IMHO.



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PostPosted: Tue Jan 31, 2017 8:05 pm
I figured I owed a couple of pictures so here you go. The first is a picture of the 3 grades of buffing compound I'm using from 3M. They're working very well, even on these parts that have to be hand sanded and buffed.

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You can't really tell looking at white paint but the extractor on top has been sanded with 1500, 2000 and 3000 grit, then polished with all three compounds. The bottom one has been sanded but not polished.

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I recommend not having orange peel so you can just avoid all this. Ah well, working with sandpaper has become my milieu.

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PostPosted: Wed Feb 01, 2017 9:37 am
Fortunately with the lighter colors its much harder to see orange peel or defects than with the darker colors.
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