great question and it relates to my little pop not that i installed here the
question is what is the maximum thickness that you that a repair can
tolerate on fillers think about this
polyester surface enhancement material
you're not creating a surface you're enhancing a surface you're correcting
the rule is no more than a quarter of an inch an eighth of an inch a 16 but a
quarter of an inch man you're flirting with with mil thickness that that is
going to fail on you
so if you take your well what I do that if you take your guide your depth gauge
here and you can see heir to the to the tune of a quarter of an inch under there
you're not done your pet your panel beating yet go back to the drawing board
and either with it with a stud polar the east has got great options for the the
stud welding tip that works with your make you don't have to have the big
motor guard stud welder but if you do that's a great thing to finish your body
work before you go to the filler and i would expect an eighth of an inch total
male thickness
if you've done your body work right it's an enhancement tool and if you treat it
with the respect that it deserves
it's a lifetime repair you see these beautiful cars
for instance choice of panties and a Torino the Talladega torino beautiful
beautiful beautiful car
it is a laser straight you cite that car I've seen it in person twice once it
seemed and once on power block that in tight
excuse me that entire car has been wiped surface to surface with filler
it's micro-thin micro-thin but it's that it's been used as a tool that that the
filter was created to be to enhance the surface of that vehicle plus has been
blocked for days and weeks and weeks and weeks so a quarter of an inch
yeah that's that's on the high side eighth of an inch yeah that's about what
you want
so we gotta thank you for that question that we've got one more
yes the question is are there any tips for keeping crisp body lines when you're
working around and im looking for masking tape
can you don't have to follow me here's a great tip for that and i just did this
I'm reshaping the kind of a contour line on an old Packard that i'm working on
let's look at this as a style line here and if I've got damaged that translates
through this particular indentation here now when I'm wiping my filler here in at
my I didn't have any distortion here but if I did I'm gonna hammer and Dolly that
as best I can
and here's what I'm going to do next I'm going to take my masking tape and let me
use it like a pinstripe tape and I'm going to find that edge now when i apply
my filler
I can watch I can't even wipe over top of that guy when it gets tacky
when I talk about is smoking when it's still doing that here's what you do you
appeal that masking tape off and you've got your filler applied down to that and
now you can see you can enhance that when you're doing the bottom side of
that you just reverse it now filling this up and now wiping filler here and
when it starts to smoke when it starts to kick and set up now i can take this
so what I'm doing is a building that Pete edge with my filler
I'm not creating something that I can sculpt I'm enhancing the surface of the
point where i can perfect it
so using masking tape and removing the tape while the filter is still pliable
enough to it actually cuts it perfectly straight line in there
that's a neat trick and apps i do that what I'm blocking surface as well
especially blocking the polyester primer surfacer so great questions guys and
thanks again to eastwood for for being so willing to share knowledge what we
want to do their mission statement in mind with education is is to pass on
information that we have collected up over the years and through our
experience
and pass it on to you guys I want you to be successful
I want you to have a good time with this I want your vehicles to just knock your
eyes out and following the steps following the procedures and the
training guides that we're putting together between education and the
eastwood company
it's a beautiful thing and and we're very happy to provide this service you
so please feel free to get in touch with me through the the eastwood online
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some subjects in what do you guys want to see us working on follow the zed sled
this is a z28 I'm from Canada if you don't know
z is pronounced set up in Canada buddy of mine had one of these cars
this is gonna be an awesome project so I want to thank you guys for tuning in to
this live stream
my name is Kevin Tate's please let me help if I can and hopefully you've
learned some techniques on what to use
where to use it and how to follow through and create a successful repair
on your project so i remember i don't know i don't know what to remember but
thanks again and would see in the next life street
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