EngineerNate
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- Aug 24, 2017
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Thought maybe another newbie could learn from my mistake. A friend's mother in law asked me to clean up her headlights and apply some weathertech brand film she had purchased. (As an aside, that stuff is obnoxious. Super thick and obvious.)
She had already purchased a kit to do the lights prior to the film, so I agreed to use that. It had a drill attachment to wetsand the lights, so I taped everything up and started sanding.
Well, I was working in a corner and the disk caught the tape, which had been loosened by the run off from sanding. In the same moment the tape was gone and I had a tiny burn through in the adjacent panel, along with a sick feeling in my gut.
She was really gracious about the whole thing and didn't even want to bother touching it up it was so small, but I told her anything like that is a rust attractant and that we should touch it up. She said she'd get some touch up from the dealer and call me.
TLDR-I learned a lesson the hard way. Buy the good automotive masking tape. Also, use the right tools for the job at hand. I would have been better off moving to hand sanding or if I had one, using a denibber in that corner rather than trusting the masking tape to hold and prevent the paint from being contacted by the sanding disk.
Cheers,
A humbler than yesterday enthusiast.
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She had already purchased a kit to do the lights prior to the film, so I agreed to use that. It had a drill attachment to wetsand the lights, so I taped everything up and started sanding.
Well, I was working in a corner and the disk caught the tape, which had been loosened by the run off from sanding. In the same moment the tape was gone and I had a tiny burn through in the adjacent panel, along with a sick feeling in my gut.
She was really gracious about the whole thing and didn't even want to bother touching it up it was so small, but I told her anything like that is a rust attractant and that we should touch it up. She said she'd get some touch up from the dealer and call me.
TLDR-I learned a lesson the hard way. Buy the good automotive masking tape. Also, use the right tools for the job at hand. I would have been better off moving to hand sanding or if I had one, using a denibber in that corner rather than trusting the masking tape to hold and prevent the paint from being contacted by the sanding disk.
Cheers,
A humbler than yesterday enthusiast.
Sent from my Pixel XL using Tapatalk