- [Donnie] Hey this is Donnie Smith and I just wanted
to reach out to the people in Moore, Oklahoma.
I know you got hit with a really big tornado yesterday,
it did a lot of damage.
I know there's gonna be a lot of rebuilding and
I know that it hit some schools and things like that
now I know it's very terrible and a very hard time
for you but I just wanted to let you know that I'm
praying for you,
let you know that there's other people praying for you.
Hey this is Donnie Smith and welcome to this lesson.
This lesson we're gonna show you how to prep a fender
before priming.
Well it's summer time and for us that means trips
to the ballpark,
water skiing,
and other fun activities we have planned this summer.
But we're also gonna be in this garage working on
the Mustang and doing other car projects and
showing you step by step how to do these things.
- [Young Boy] Hey dad,
why don't we show them how to build something.
- [Donnie] Build something?
You mean like a shed or something?
- [Young Boy] Well you showed us how to do some things
they might wanna know too.
- [Donnie] Yeah but we've just done some things
around the house.
I mean I don't really know nothin much about
building things.
- [Boy] Aren't you an instructor?
- [Donnie] Well yeah I'm an instructor,
but I teach auto body and paint you know,
I teach people how to paint cars you know at school
and in videos.
Construction and building things,
I don't know anything about that.
But I'll tell you what I'll do
(mumbles) and woodwork.
I mean he's they guy that knows all about that sorta thing
I mean whether you're looking to build a deck or a shed
or a chair or table,
I mean he's got plans and
blueprints trade all that you need.
He's got over 16,000 plans and you click the link right
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you can save 20 dollars.
Now I may do this a little bit different than what you've
seen cause I,
I actually prepped the entire fender you know for
primer paint and clear if it's a blend panel.
I go ahead and do all my prepping before I ever prime
now I do this for a reason,
cause a common mistake I see with students and beginners
is that they prime out further than they're intending to
and maybe where is wasn't scuffed real good
and the primer gets on top of that and then that
has a chance of peeling later.
Or when you're sanding it there's always a glossy ring
around where you're sanding cause that's where it's not
sanded well.
And the primer doesn't feather well like that either,
you'll keep on havin that ring till you get back to
the area od where it's sanded.
So if you follow the steps that I'm gonna show
you in this video,
you won't have that problem.
Now I'm not saying this is the only way to do it
if you're an experienced painter you probably are
pretty good at getting the primer exactly where you want it
and even though the whole panels prepped,
this is not sayin that
you wanna get primer everywhere either,
This is just a way to be safe.
Now in previous videos in this series,
we've already done the bodywork,
we've applied the body filler,
finished it out with 80.
We've applied putty,
finished it out with 150 hammering everything
feathering nice.
Now we're gonna go ahead and prep it anywhere the paints
gonna get primer or paint needs to be sanded with 500.
Anywhere from 150 to 500 primer will stick to that,
so we've got some of the 150 grit scratches in the putty
and then it will blend into the 500.
Now where the clear coats at we don't wanna sand
that with 500 cause the clear coat won't
cover those scratches,
you'll see through the clear and see those scratches.
So we're gonna sand anywhere that's gonna be
clear coat only with 800.
Now we're gonna do all of this before we ever prime,
and we'll show you how.
First thing you wanna do is protect your adjacent panels,
now on this door I'm using a inch and a half making tape
and that way scuff pad hits it or DA slips a little bit
it's gonna hit that tape and not the panel,
won't damage it that way.
And on the hood I just have it raised and
notice I'm also using that interface pad.
You should always do that whenever you're final
sanding with these finer grits,
cause I'm gonna go ahead and sand this entire panel
what's gonna be painted and what's gonna
be clear coated.
And I wanna do all of this before I ever start the
priming process.
So first I'm gonna start with my 500,
and this is just gonna be used where paint is gonna
where the paint's gonna be applied to.
So I go back past my repair area,
using this 500 grit and I'm gonna leave a little room
in the back for blending.
And when we get to that step,
I'm gonna switch to the 800 grit because clear doesn't
really cover the 500.
If you tried to clear with 500,
you'd be able to see those scratches through it.
So anywhere 500 is applied you want to make sure
that that is painted.
Okay now I have switched the 800 and I'm gonna
do just this back area.
And you need to be careful not to burn through any edges
or anything,
cause if you do you're gonna have to paint that spot.
You just wanna scuff up the clear coat so I'm going
over that area and if you're not comfortable
with the DA,
afraid you might burn through,
You can wet sand it with 800.
You could get the same results
it will just take a little bit longer.
I've got all the areas with 800,
then I'm gonna get a gray scuff pad.
You wanna use gray because it's finer than the red one.
And it's really good for your edges your hard to get
places cause sometimes the DA doesn't get
in the hard to get areas like a scuff pad can.
And I like to get the edges extra good because the
paint's gonna peel from the edges.
So I'm gonna go round the edges really good
with this scuff pad,
and I'm also just gonna go ahead and go over the entire
fender with it as well.
Once I've got this entire fender scuffed,
I can blow it off make sure there's no glossy spots.
If there is ,
I can go ahead and scuff it up.
So I'm kinda looking at it and once you have it
scuffed basically you have it ready for primer.
Now if any primer gets over further than you's intending,
you're not gonna have that peeling problem
It is gonna be applied on sanded paint.
Now we're ready to blow it off,
wipe it down,
clean it up,
and get it ready for the booth to apply
some Epoxy primer cause we've got some
metal showing or we could use self edge primer.
And then we're gonna apply some primer surfacer.
Thanks for watching this video,
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