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#1053858 09/03/2014 9:17 PM
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All of my life in this hobby, I have taken my sheet metal down to bare metal,then epoxy primed it. Did my body work on top of the apoxy and then used Evercoats Featherfill or Slick Sand to get it straight and then recoated it with epoxy prime before color. Am I living in the past? or is there a new way to achieve the same affect?

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about usual, although you shouldn't need the 2nd shot of epoxy primer, a sanding primer or sealer primer before the color is "standard"

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red58, I guess I could eleminate the last apoxy coat and see how that works and if I have a sand through, just cover it with a coat of slick sand.

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maybe you need to be starting with straighter metal - the object of the first epoxy coat is to seal the metal, you don't want any breaks in that, the object of the sanding/high fill primer is so there's something to sand to avoid going into the epoxy, which isn't really intended for sanding except any necessary scuff after the recoat limit ... just my 2¢

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How are you living in the past using all the modern products ?


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Shouldn't guide coating, and fixing accordingly, result in very little final sanding? It is to prevent just random sanding.


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