Technical Glazing putty

Any particular glazing puddy that works best? Can't believe how much they want for some of this stuff.............

 

I use icing Mike. I like it. If you're talking about the green or red stuff in the tube, I don't mess with it anymore, I don't use lacquer primer, and that stuff is for use on top of lacquer.

 

I’ve used U-pol, ever coat, icings……
All did their job.

 

Evercoat works for me. If I ever get the hang of mixing just a little bit! Mix too much, too much hardener, too little etc.

 

My first question is what are you using it for? Putties are really a collision shop product. They are designed to go over the finer sand scratches of the feather edge area of a repair and create a denser surface structure to reduce the amount of primer needed for a repair. Used properly they are supposed to cover the entire repair area from paint edge to paint edge.

Using them to repair small imperfection on top of existing body filler generally lead to more issues and work because the two products do not sand at the same rate which often leads to waves as the one product sands quickly and the other slowly.

Even if you are using it to repair small imperfections not on existing body filler for most doing restoration work you are better off spending the money you would spend on a putty on a higher quality filler that will spread and self level better to do all your fill work. Even collision shops are starting to move away from using putties now that there are some fillers being made that can go over paint and fine sand scratches.

 

I’ve had good results with the UPOL Dolphin Glaze on a fine scratch or pinhole in the filler that I might have missed. K13 gives some good advice about it being more dense than most fillers, therefore sanding at a different rate. If you’re keeping it really thin, then you shouldn’t have a problem.

 

I thought putty was to fill pin-hole's in lead...

 

This stuff works pretty well:

 

I've used evercoat and icing, always liked it.

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upol ...........

 

I'm learning something every day. When I saw "Glazing putty" I'm thinking someone wants to fix a glass window in the shed.. ( "glazing putty" is the linseed oil based stuff here.) . And before someone says you "put it on a cake", what is "icing"?

 

Well.........guilty as charged. Just want to fill some small imperfections.

 

With my construction background I was a bit confused. I know 'glazing putty' as stuff you use to set glass panes in timber or steel frames when you're not using glazing beads. I was wondering, what (early?) cars had window panes fixed with putty?

 

I have used this, no air holes, sands easily. 20 bucks comes with hardener.