hey this is kevin's corner and I'm Kevin taste
well right now we are knee-deep in car driving season and when you drive your
car
it's going to get shipped up no question about it you're going to get a little
bit of road rash
one of the questions that came up on the last live stream cast that we did was
how do you fix rock chips
i'm going to show you a technique that works very well for me and it's actually
a semi permanent repair
here's some of the things that you need got some 1500 grit sandpaper a couple of
different touch up brush styles
we've got the base coat that we're going to do the repair with clear coat
catalyst a couple of stainless steel mixing cups and some little little caps
that actually come off the PPS system that Eastwood cells in the catalogs
we've also got some eye droppers we've got three dedicated eyedroppers and I'll
explain why later plus a dressed
razor blade the same is in the color sanding and buffing video from the
Patriot a shin series and going to show you how to use them and we're going to
show you what we're going to use them on this is just a ford ranger fender with
tunnel ram gray and the euro clear on it that check out these rocket ships here's
what we're going to show you how to repair and these guys are kind of gnarly
but their typical of the size that you're going to run into with a typical
leading edge panel and a rock that comes up and hits it so here's what we're
going to do first
take a good look at your rock chips
you see any rest you can take a single edge razor blade and just kind of scrape
the rest out kind of preparatory you're not burying something that you shouldn't
and take your 1500 grit sandpaper and you're just knocking over the top
I'm gonna do both of them just because what the 1500 grit paper is doing is
leveling the area around the chip and it's giving your repair something to
stick to
if that doesn't make sense now it will in just a second
I've got a little bit of base coat on the paint paddle here and I've got a
couple of different touch up brushes these guys are really interesting
it's a brush I picked up from a hobby shop and it's got a very small soft and
and it makes a really nice job of putting that paint down in the chip and
you don't want to go crazy
just give it a touch make sure everything's covered
don't go nuts with paint you want a bit of a cavity there to hold on to the
clear because this is a base coat clear coat touch up brush and this is not the
only brush
here's another one this is your conventional typical modelers brush now
I don't like using this end it holds too much paint and it flows out and it just
makes too much of a mess i use the back end of it
so again we're going to take our paint paddle
just touch the end of it and one touch usually does it
pretty clubs
you go
rockchip touch up it's a good idea to let that base coat drive
possibly even for an hour or so make sure it's good and dry so it doesn't
change color when you add clear to it
now here's where the stainless steel cuts and the rest of the equipment comes
in
we're just going to use just the smallest did a clear code
that's plenty it's almost too much
this is a catalyst with a plenty in there
so you're not wasting a bunch of material the eye droppers come in handy
so you can get the precise amount of material mixed for instance this has a
two to one mix ratio on the camp
you can also expand it 2421 which actually works a little bit better for
spring the 21 is the recommended ratio so see on the eyedropper it stands for
clear coat
here's where these guys come in we're going to go two parts to one part so are
clear coat is here
we don't need very much so
going with the eye drop with the 21 mix we want enough to be able to fix a
couple of chips
so one two three four five six seven eight
now 21 you basically cut it and have to get the correct ratio so eight drops of
clear means four drops of catalyst and that keeps our two to one ratio
scientifically exact and accurate
one two three four
all right these get cleaned out and they get set off to the side
now with a completely clean eyedropper because you don't want to
cross-contaminate you can take and mix is bubbling up a little bit and take
much
there's not much there now we're ready to fill in the chip with a clear in the
perfect mix ratio
how about that and coming back to a rocket ship which we've let dr plenty of
time and we're using another one of these really cool hobby store touch up
brushes now dip into the clear little bit
it is saturated and gently apply your clear
that's one coat just like a base coat clear coat paint job you want more than
one coat and you get the idea of what we're doing here it's a base coat clear
coat repaired just like the original paint job and that's what makes it such
a good solid repair
so we want to wait 15 20 maybe even 30 minutes to let this dry to recoat it
again to put the other coat of clear on because you want to build it up over top
of the rock chip
now I've already prepared another section that we're going to move to to
finalize this repair and here's the other chip that we repaired
now i want to say this ahead of time and some colors are easier to fix chips than
the others
a metallic gray like this tunnel ram gray of a silver colors they just don't
respond as well but what we're doing is a temporary fix to where we can get
through the season drivercar have fun and then fix it later conventionally so
we're taking the single edge razor blade that we prepped just like on the color
sanding and buffing video and we're scraping the top offer this chip
leveling it into the other surface
that's why we put two coats
sometimes even three a clear coat on top of our fender you want to really
carefully monitor your progress here
want to watch and make sure these light spots
I want to make sure we're not digging our repair out and we're not shoot
ourselves in the foot here i'm going to color sand around that and make sure
that you can bump it up a gloss 1500 grit
a little bit of liquid eyes compound
yeah
start rubbing
yeah
right there is our fixed rock ship is it perfect
no it's not but that's okay because this is not designed to be a permanent repair
if your color matches
yes it can be but if it doesn't it's designed to get you through the show
season and get you driving so you're not worried about that rock chip you're not
going to lose points at a show if you're going that far but it also gets you
ready for a complete respray without having to feather this out without
having to fill it in with filler because you've now got a base coat clear coat
repair on top of this is leveled into the surface that you can just prep and
just do a simple respray in the winter months when it's not so fun to drive our
project cars so keep this in mind
don't worry about the chips I love the sink there's more paint in the can
and of course you can get that paint from the east to accompany so Kevin's
corner
we will talk to you next time around