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so my question is what steps, grits, etc, i want to take out the orange peal in my paint on my bird, what do i have to do, wet sanding, dry, what grits, steps. etc, what all do i need to do to get rid of it. thanks for any help.

 

so what no one has ever done their own body work, or sanded their paint, or what, this sucks.

i just wanted to know the grits i needed.

 

Ok this is how i did it...i personally did it this way, i had 2 coats of clear on and i did burn through in one small spot but it did not matter b/c this was a fender that i was experimenting with(first time ever painting and buffing and ****).

Wetsand using a softblock with 1200 grit to get rid of the majority of defects, then go to 2000 grit. After you wet sand it down then buff the car out using a buffing machine and I did it like this

3M HeavyCut Compound
3M MediumCut Compund
Machine Glaze
Hand Glaze

It came out like a ****ing mirror, it was as smooth as glass when you touched it.....I am am painting my car now and I plan on laying extra coats of clear so i can sand out all the defects and then buff.

 

ok thanks thats all i wanted to know, im sanding her now with 400 wet sand to take out some junk, then im going to put on a new fender and front bumper then shoot some jet black on her then do this sanding. thanks for the info and good luck.

 

at my work (body shop) i do 1500 with the D/A sander (dry). they i use the D/A with 2000 (wet). after that i buff it with medium cut compound, followed by machine glaze, then topped off with hand glaze. the results are amazing.

 

Well, suppose you are lucky enough to own an 86 out of Van Nuys, almost everytrhing is still original stock. My baby needs lots of TLC. What do I do with a car that has a thick black primer, done by an inexperienced teen age car abuser? I mean it looks bad, it's chipping, fading in spots, over primed in other areas, and what this kid did to the door, oh. Where do I start???

HELP PLEEZE

 

I also have the unfortunate van nuys paint job that has faded off

 

Hand sand the entire car with 80 grit. I began sanding my car with 80 grit only to realize there was 2 different paint jobs on it before. So I took it down to the original primer, it took some time but it was well worth it.

 

Wow, you're a glutton for punishment. For $30 you can get a cheap D/A sander and do it in 1/10th of the time and save the 4 blisters on your hand.

By the way, 82firebird, any progress pics? I've been keeping up with your paint project since I'm doing the paint/bodywork on my 83.

 

i have a car paint store in the next city, now what stuff do you reccomend i go and get, i want to do all my own body work. and what i want to do is sand down the car, and have soemthing to buff the car with once i get paitn on her. so like an orbital buffer. but how much does this stuff cost and what are the names for the componuds?

 

I've been pretty busy with track starting up, but I have made some progress in the last few weeks. I hope to spray the primer within the next few weeks. I updated my cardomain site on page 9..


http://www.cardomain.com/member_page...=242913&page=9

 

you need to get sand paper and body filler. its also good to have a grinder, D/A sander, buffer, stuff like that. as for the polish, i you all 3M stuff:

perfect it III compound (use a stiff white foam pad for this)
perfect it III machine glaze (use a black foam pad from this)
hand glase

i will grab some pics of my supplies tomorrow for you.

also if this is you first time, then i would put a minimum of 3 coats of clear over the paint. just to be safe

 

ive painted cars and such before but never did anything after that, i mean ive always hand sanded it all, took for ever and anoyed the hell out of me, but i was going to shoot jet black with probally a silver or red metallic flake, then put about 5 cloats of clear on it, make the ****er shine.