Saturday, July 7, 2012

Right Rear Fender in Primer

 I know that there are those out there who think that sanding parties are fruitless fun ending in nothing useful, but you would be wrong.
The sanding parties actually lead to something- painting parties.

These shots don't really show all of the fun that was had.  First, this bit of original steel was blasted on the back side, then sanded, then the rust pits were filled with a glazing compound, and then sanded again.  The outside was sanded to within an inch of its life to get down to clean metal, then filler was added to quite a lot of the surface, then sanded, then glazed, then sanded again.  Both sides were then cleaned, an epoxy primer was mixed up, I put on my moon suit and respirator and finally primed it.  What I am trying to do here is block out the panels where I can but more importantly, to get the raw steel protected





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