Wet Sand test panel - 1983 Hurst 442

[danponjican]

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 cycloBefore
http://images20.fotki.com/v961/photos/5/559186/5209175/hurst_442_before-vi.jpg

After
http://images28.fotki.com/v964/photos/5/559186/5209175/hurst_442_after-vi.jpg

Split Shot
http://images114.fotki.com/v962/photos/5/559186/5209175/hurst_442_beforeafter2-vi.jpg

[budman3]

Huge improvement!! is he going to let you do the whole car? Great job,

[Al-53]

great job....1000% improvement.....bet he liked the results....

AL

[Strokin04]

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.

[67Customs]

That is amazing.:awesome:

[devst8]

did you wetsand by hand or machine?

[mliebs8]

Wow, now that's impressive

[danponjican]

did you wetsand by hand or machine?
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.


great job....1000% improvement.....bet he liked the results....
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!

[scottgt]

wow...looks great..what brand sand paper was it?

[Nica]

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.

[danponjican]

wow...looks great..what brand sand paper was it?
I use 3M paper.


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.
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).

[Grimm]

Nice job! Be sure to post more pics, I love the 83 H/O's.

[Nica]

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.

[sparkie]

Looking good, I need to get into wet sanding....

[klumzypinoy]

That's a great result, the paint is looking great now :D.