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PUNISHER VETTE
1. I'm blocking the firewall on my vette and it seems the epoxy primer is gumming up my sandpaper almost instantly. It's 180g paper.
Is it normal? and I just need to accept it?
Is my paper being the Duragold kind a cheap variety and as a result this is what I get?
I sanded some that had sat for a week or two, and this firewall sat for 24hrs.. Both have done the same thing so I don't think it's a curing question. Maybe the epoxy being a 1:1 needed to be reduced or something I am unaware of?
Once I get through the top layer of epoxy it gets a little better...but still doesn't seem right to me. I'm using compressed air very often but sometimes it can't get the darker chunks off very easy.
2. I plan on spraying the engine bay body color(a cyber gray metallic). Mostly because I want my vette to be more unique than the plain Jane black most do. But I also want as much practice spraying metallics as I can before attempting the outside. Knowing you have to get the outside perfectly smooth before spraying I'm wondering how perfect does the firewall really need to be to not look like crap?
Being a corvette it has imperfections galore in this area and I'm not really wanting to spend the 100+ hours blocking it would need to get it perfect. Anyone have any pictures of what an unblocked metallic paint job looked like? or a scratch not fixed and painted anyway? Cyber Gray is a darker color so I'm hoping that helps in terms of blending in some?
3. Should the epoxy lay down mirror like or is what I have about normal? Didn't know if I needed to adjust my gun settings differently to get it to spray smother?
Hopefully these aren't too dumb a questions lol. I'm sure I'll come up with ones even dumberer as I keep moving forward.
Is it normal? and I just need to accept it?
Is my paper being the Duragold kind a cheap variety and as a result this is what I get?
I sanded some that had sat for a week or two, and this firewall sat for 24hrs.. Both have done the same thing so I don't think it's a curing question. Maybe the epoxy being a 1:1 needed to be reduced or something I am unaware of?
Once I get through the top layer of epoxy it gets a little better...but still doesn't seem right to me. I'm using compressed air very often but sometimes it can't get the darker chunks off very easy.
2. I plan on spraying the engine bay body color(a cyber gray metallic). Mostly because I want my vette to be more unique than the plain Jane black most do. But I also want as much practice spraying metallics as I can before attempting the outside. Knowing you have to get the outside perfectly smooth before spraying I'm wondering how perfect does the firewall really need to be to not look like crap?
Being a corvette it has imperfections galore in this area and I'm not really wanting to spend the 100+ hours blocking it would need to get it perfect. Anyone have any pictures of what an unblocked metallic paint job looked like? or a scratch not fixed and painted anyway? Cyber Gray is a darker color so I'm hoping that helps in terms of blending in some?
3. Should the epoxy lay down mirror like or is what I have about normal? Didn't know if I needed to adjust my gun settings differently to get it to spray smother?
Hopefully these aren't too dumb a questions lol. I'm sure I'll come up with ones even dumberer as I keep moving forward.