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09-07-2010, 10:20 AM



Quote Originally Posted by Mike Phillips View Post
I'm the last person to claim someone else's idea as my own, but here's an instance where I had a similar idea but have never tried it. In keeping with the saying,

"You don't know what you can do until you try"


  • Take a hole punch, punch out some holes in some sandpaper.

  • Cut a pencil down to about 2-3 inches long on the erasure side.

  • Glue these onto the face of an unused pencil erasure.

  • Place the pencil in a Drill.

  • Carefully hold the drill in such a way to sand on top of a rock chip.









The goal is to take a ragged random shaped rock chip and turn it into a perfect circle with an even impression in the paint and now sanded clean for good adhesion.

Then apply your touch-up paint till the hole is level.

Allow to dry for about a week or two in warm temperatures.

Carefully sand the touch-up paint flat.

Remove sanding marks.


I'll give it a try on my Jimmy after the glue has dried that's holding the #1000 Grit Sandpaper to the Pencil Erasure.

I think a lower grit would actually work better, like #600 or #800 but #1000 is as low as I had at my desk.



Have a new article on this on the way...