I glass beaded my dash to bare metal. I had to weld a bunch of holes shut that had been put in the dash over the years. If you look at the picture you can see some spots on the left side that were welded. I ground the welds down and was going to put some body putty in the bigger repaired hole areas. Then I was going to use a high build epoxy primer on the dash. What git sand paper should i use to sand the putty? and then what grit should I use to sand the epoxy primer.Any other advice would be apreciated
Unless you want to sand the filler forever, I'd use something like 80 grit for that. For your final sanding, 400 grit should give you a decent result for final coating. If you have some imperfections that need to be sanded out, you could use a bit coarser grit, say 220 until those are gone, then finish up with the 400 grit.
Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truck Follow this saga in Project Journal Photos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together.
I'd go epoxy first, then filler. But that's just me.
Not a bad approach. That gets the metal sealed while working on it, so it doesn't get flash rust on it. The first coat of epoxy also highlights any defects.
Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truck Follow this saga in Project Journal Photos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together.
Well I used both ideas thanks to both people for the help. I first did the putty on the big areas and then I put several coats of epoxy primer on it and saw that I should do a little more sanding and so i did that cleaned and painted it here are the results keep in mind its going to be a hot rod for my daughter.The color was all her Idea.
Your daughter has fantastic taste in colors. I am trying to decide if I am brave enough to do a similar color on the 58 I am building with my daughter.
Do you have a brand/color for that? I would be interested in it.
Nice work I don't think I'd be using that color on my truck, but that's why there are a zillion different colors.
Kevin 1951 Chevy 3100 work truck Follow this saga in Project Journal Photos 1929 Ford pickup restored from the ground up. | 1929 Ford Special Coupe (First car) Busting rust since the mid-60's If you're smart enough to take it apart, you darn well better be smart enough to put it back together.
It comes on a 2017 camaro sales department calls it kypton green But The parts department calls it Spitfire paint code 445B. Try it. It is urathane. I run a crane at a nuclear Plant 1 mistake and I wont be working on the truck anymore.Green is probably a good color for me. I guess what im saying is if you not living on the edge your taking up to much space LOL.
