Hello All, I painted a truck a year ago with single stage paint in my garage. The paint looked and shined great. My work was not very good since I did not block sand the proper way. Redoing the whole truck again. I put new seam sealer in the gutters and around the rear doors and the front body seam between the top and front windshield. Did the new seam sealer before the primer and new paint. So how do you take the shine off the new paint so it will stick with out tearing up the seam sealer and since you cant get into the tight spots. Also around the windshield rubber and body grooves with out tearing up the windshield rubber? Thanks RB
prep sanding seam sealer
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MJM
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There is a product on the market ( don't know the name of it ) but, it's like a rope material that slides under windshield gaskets and raises the gasket so prep and paint can get underneath the gasket. You won't beable to get completely under the gasket but, far enough under that it makes a difference.
If I can remember what it's called, I'll post it.
If I can remember what it's called, I'll post it.
Treeslayer
Mike
dhutton01
Backyard Hack
3M trim masking tape
Sometimes that 3M trim tape is a lifesaver, but a lot of the time on traditional rubber gaskets, you can run a small rope around the window just under the gasket, and rubber will stay lifted up. The downside is that it can take a "set" that way and not want to lay back down, but usually an afternoon in the sun will fix it. Just don't leave the window "roped" for a long time. It's what you do last along with final prep.
Another alternative is something called a pulloff. Nothing needed other than tape and it works really well when you are painting something with the rubbers installed (windshield etc.) Quick, easy, and excellent results. I covered it in this thread
How to blend paint to repair and match existing paint.
Hi all. I figured I'd do this write up as both Crash and I thought we needed to have something here on the forum to refer folks to when asking about blending. I'll try to outline the proper technique to prep, and how to do a basecoat blend. Single stage the same principle applies. In this write...
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Treeslayer
Mike
i have both sides of the windshield gasket folded up under itself to sand. im actually sanding the oem finish, the guy that did this before didnt even get all the way up to the gasket. i still have to do some thing on the top of the windshield. small rope might work. the doors are whats a problem. it really just needs new window channel and belt, but thats gonna have to wait. whats left is so stiff it really dont want to move. and then there is where the PO got that smurf paint on the rubber.........oh it sticks to that real good!