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 cyclo

Before


After


Split Shot

[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.

[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.