Wet Sand test panel - 1983 Hurst 442

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Friend of mine was going to have this car repainted because he thought the orange peel was too bad. I told him that I would take a crack at it (one small area) to see what can be done. Looks like this car had been sprayed several times with SS paint.

Process
  • Wet sand 1000 grit
  • Wet sand 2000 grit
  • M04 with wool pad @ 1500 rpms
  • SSR1 with white pads on cyclo
Before
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After
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Split Shot
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Huge improvement!! is he going to let you do the whole car? Great job,
 
great job....1000% improvement.....bet he liked the results....

AL
 
Good job and perfect chance to practice on something that if you screw up it doesn't matter because he was going to respray it anyway.
 
devst8 said:
did you wetsand by hand or machine?
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By hand but believe me... if I get this job for the whole car, I'll be heading over to Harbor Freight and buying a nice palm pnuematic DA sander! He has a nice compressor that I was drulling over in his garage so that would make the process much faster. It took me 30 minutes just to do that one spot.

Al-53 said:
great job....1000% improvement.....bet he liked the results....
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He was shocked. He didn't think that paint was worth saving. It's amazing what is living under a few mils of messed up paint!
 
wow...looks great..what brand sand paper was it?
 
Now that's wet sanding, very nice. By any chance did you use a paint gauge? Those are big improvements, the numbers of steps you took tells me your no rookie at wet sanding, well either that or you really did your homework.

Very nice results, thank you for sharing.
 
scottgt said:
wow...looks great..what brand sand paper was it?
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I use 3M paper.

Nica said:
Now that's wet sanding, very nice. By any chance did you use a paint gauge? Those are big improvements, the numbers of steps you took tells me your no rookie at wet sanding, well either that or you really did your homework.

Very nice results, thank you for sharing.
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I didn't use a paint gauge for several reasons. Mainly though two reasons, 1) risk was very low because I was trying to convince him NOT to strip the paint and respray the car, so if I screwed up, no biggie. But also you could tell this was some thick paint. There are tape lines all over the car from where spots where sprayed two... three... and probably more times than that in some places. I could probably still go back and sand that area one more time (actually I might... the picture doesn't show it, but there was very very little traces of vallies that I didn't go deep enough on).
 
danponjican - Thanks for sharing and that's a perfect vehicle to try wet sanding :righton: if you do any more work to it please post it would be fun seeing the results.
 
Nice job. Huge improvement!! What air tool are you going to wet sand with? D/A is a little too much, or is the paint that bad? It does have some serious peel.
 
Excellent job. Can still see a little orange peel in the corner by the tail light, but the rest of it looks amazing.
 
med said:
Nice job. Huge improvement!! What air tool are you going to wet sand with? D/A is a little too much, or is the paint that bad? It does have some serious peel.
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Air powered DA. It's actually safer because you are removing a more even layer of paint. It is not different than buffing by hand or with a machine. It just accelerates the process. With sanding though it is just a VERY fast process! With a DA sander you have to be moving fast... which makes the job move along nicely.
 
That is incredible, such nice work! Are you doing the whole thing?
 
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