properly cleaning the panel's before you move to the painting process is critical
to the success of your paint project and since there's more than one type of
contamination
you should use more than one type of cleaner for the panel's such as
pre-painting prep isopropyl alcohol even a glass cleaner check out how we clean
project said slit before moving on to the boulevard black base coat and show
clear whenever I'm prepping a vehicle or parts for a paint job
I use a three-step cleaning process starting with the glass cleaner which is
a nice organic debris cleaner
I follow that with a prep solvent wipe down pre-planning prep is a good one
and then finally before i shoot paint i use an alcohol wipe down in a pump
sprayer the alcohol gets very aggressive things like acidic fingerprints up off
of the substrate and it works as a very nice anti-static spray as well and
remember don't use paper towels as a final wipe spend a little extra money on
some body shop safe lint-free towels
it's money well spent step one two three step process is a glass cleaner
okay just to prove a point as clean as that car looked
look what I picked up off the surface you're not ready even if it looks clean
you got a cleaning here's the other thing this one's done its gon get a new
one
you can spend a little money on towels but you can have a clean surface
step 2 after the glass cleaner is pre-painting prep you want to wipe one
direction
roll your rag you're trying to evacuate the solvent off the top
not rub it in again
second stage look at the dirt i'm picking up this is why this is why three
stages of preparation why it's so important
you've got to be clean baby your final wipes off and also gives you the
opportunity to test for straightness it's another way to wet check the last
of the three steps is the alcohol wipe down and keep in mind this is isopropyl
alcohol not rubbing alcohol
it's a seventy-five percent alcohol twenty-five percent water mix that I get
from a local drug store
what that does rather than rubbing alcohol is it has a higher flashpoint
what is a higher flashpoint mean well you're not going to blow yourself up if
you have a static charge on the surface like fiberglass or something like that
so keep safe use the 75 25 isopropyl alcohol smells minty fresh
look at that where do I keep picking up dirt I don't know but i keep cleaning
until my rags come off clean that was toast
I let my tack racks it opened up for a few minutes to mute the sticky so it
doesn't stay on the panel for the first tak wipe
I use a blow nozzle set about the same pressure as I spray this blows out any
dust particles and debris into the tack rag and get it out of the cracks and
crevices
lastly I ball up the tack rag loosely and give the panel's of final tacking
just for good measure
so here's another tip just like in the video
expand your tags let him sit out in the air for a while and it keeps the sticky
stuff for being deposited onto your panels before you paint
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