Thread: Fixrupr
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Old 09-13-2011, 10:39 AM   #59
landarts
landarts
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Star, Idaho
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Re: Fixrupr

I will have to say on my next project if there is more than one coat of paint on the truck I will strip it down to bare metal. The time it would take to strip to bare metal would be far less than having to build up areas that are repaired like small chips.

On the "fixrupr" the body was in really good shape overall, so I went forward with fixing all the dents, highs and lows. Once I moved to the primer stage it revealed more dings and small rock chips. So now those need to be built up to match the surface of the primer or feathered to equal flatness. On this particular project I would have saved time by just striping truck to bare metal, then epoxy primer, then filler primer.
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