block sanding sucks !

Don't forget your rubber duckie!

 

My father's method for easy sanding is hiring his son to do it.. He can still work circles around me though.

 

I have one, its full of dust like everything else around here .

 

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha now you know why I quit doing bodywork, all the paper pushers who want to sit behind a desk for $2000 a week think you ought to do a "perfect" body and paint job on their rotted out heap for $500 hey it's easy any monkey can do it, you have a big machine that does all the work don't you?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

 

Has anyone mentioned yacking up big bondo and primer colored loogies? Don't worry your lungs will last you the rest of your life. Probably less than half the chemical laden dust you inhaled is still in there.

 

Don't they make things that you strap on your face, like a filter to keep the dust out of your lungs or something!?

My shop teacher said back in the lacquer days he used to spray with just a dust mask and he'd punch a hole in it for his cigarette.........

 

Here's a couple things I've used that worked really well besides my regular sanding blocks.

Depends on what and where to use them but they work well
A steel ruler ( instead of a paint stick ) on fine details that are supposed to straight
1-1/4 pvc with 80 file paper ( follows irregularities especially concaved ) any length you want under 10 feet.
6' level with 80 file paper on the narrow side. You want it flat, Its FLAT.
3" radiator hose, 5, 8, 12" its flexibility let's you follow curves, reversed especially. Picture blocking the inside of a funnel , now bend it.
2" pieces of various size heater hose to follow radius body lines. Like a finger hole for a fuel door.
1" round tube with high density pipe insulation - stick any file paper you want to it. I have a 2-6" and 3-6"
1/2" thick x 2" heavy rubber, holds any file paper you wanted. Used than vertically to get a couple ridges in a curved panels. Kind of works like a paint stick only better, a paint stick will flat spot your curved panel in One stroke.

If you tape one side of the sanding block you can let the tape run on your good surfaces and flush out some of those tricky areas. Since its taped, it only follows and doesn't cut. Same thing only different, tape the body and run the block, works for 2" or so wide details. Especially helpful when a flat begins to intersect a curve. As soon as the curve begins to lift the leading edge of the block, the back side starts digging in without the tape.

After some 600 wet sanding today on black primer, its going to be outstanding .
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Your Merc is bad ass dude..........I would say it was worth all the wotk you put into it.

 

I agree with most of the above posts to a large degree but the best answer we've found in our shop (we do hotrods and restos) is Martin Senour's Complete Color Primer. It's is a 2K product, comes in 5 different colors that can be mixed to compliment almost any top coat color, good build properties, sands easily, and best of all, it's SHINY! Too further perfect your style finish off with a powder guide coat.