proper masking techniques
protecting the areas of the vehicle that you don't want overspray on is critical
to any successful paint job and Eastwood has all the masking tape paper and
supplies and equipment that you're going to need to properly mask your project
now back taping is a technique that I use a lot is what we use a lot on the 78
z28 camaro project said sled check out the video
see how it's done obviously all the panels are often the car we're doing
this because we're shooting a solid color and I don't want any tape lines
and I don't want to have to spend the time and jamming it out backmasking and
all that kind of stuff this saves us time different color
metallic color graphics well that's a different strategy have made paper doors
to keep the over spray from the inside keep the desk from blowing into the
outside and have skirted the entire vehicle all the way around to keep that
overspray off of the newly painted suspension components
now these parts are sitting on a stand that I've had for years it allows me
access to all the areas i want to paint on these parts
if you don't have something like this well you can get creative with your big
175 and make your stance
the point is this eliminates the time investment in masking and eliminates the
possibility of tape lines as well so it's a good idea
now the front subframe you've seen before it's freshly painted and is
completely assembled so I've bagged it to keep overspray off of it as well as
I've mask the firewall because I painted it as well show you that a little bit
but i wanted to say that your golden masking is to keep your paper as smooth
as possible that way you don't have folds in areas that you're over spray
can collect in and possibly get blown back out into the paint job areas like
this
it's really worth the time investment to give it a good inspection and come back
flatten out spots like that just eliminate problems in almost every
instance on this car i used a technique called backmasking or back taping this
technique is clearly demonstrated in an education instructional series but in
case you haven't watched it going to show you what I'm talking about
I like to use inch and a half inch tape basically what I'm doing is using about
half of it on the inside edge is self-explanatory
I'm back taping and exposing the sticky part of the tape it makes it really easy
to blanket this with another piece of paper and use the sticky part of the
tape it just makes a nice job attachment but i also like to use a little bit of
reinforcement kind of like building a web like this under here
you can see what this is gonna do it was a little bit of an area of support for
the masking paper that we're gonna put in here just in case just in case it
allows it to if you drop a tack rag on there it's not going to crash this stuff
all in
and now i take a very sharp single edge razor blade and I'm lightly cutting just
paper
not the masking tape underneath last step to take some of the masking tape
and again
sticky part of the tape to the sticky part of the tape makes this really easy
now not only is backmasking or back taking a great technique to keep the
overspray off the parts you don't want it on but it also creates a soft edge
that you don't have to sand and polish out and by the way the days of using
newspaper to mask up your project are long gone because today's modern paints
and chemicals will leach right through that pain and possibly ruin your paint
job
so head on over to eastwood.com to make sure you get all the proper masking
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