Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Paint Class - Day 17

Today we were assigned to specific cars in the shop. A second year student is assigned to the car, and a first-year student to help them. I was assigned to this 1991 BMW 3 series that had oxidation on the hood and a repair on the trunk. the last class had stripped the paint down to about the primer with a chemical stripper (my dads favorite stuff - airplane paint stripper). So today I used a grinder with 80 grit sandpaper to take it down to the metal, then I came back with a DA(Dual action) sander with 180 grit sandpaper to take the fine bits off. I was working on sanding the paint from the slats in the hood (by hand), when we had to pack up.

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