02-19-2019, 11:38 PM | #1 |
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Hi was woundering how heavy a scratch or deep you can hide with 3 coats on steel and on bondo ?
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02-20-2019, 12:21 AM | #2 |
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Re: high build primer
some high build primer will bury a dime in a few coats...
on mine I could cover 120g sanding scratches with ease in one coat
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ditto!!
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I blocked out my filler with 80 grit and laid a few coats of Evercoat featherfill G2 on it. Fills 80 easily and sands great. Blocked that to 180/240 and laid 2K urethane over that, sanded to 600. Use guidecoat each time you change grits to make sure ya don’t miss any spots and highlight the lows.
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Whatever the TDS says.
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I did a few experiments with Featherfill back years ago. I love doing tests, to REALLY see what you can do.
I did a Harley gas tank that I made a display piece out of when I was a paint rep. I bondoed it, sanded it with 36 grit and put three or four coats of featherfill and sanded that up to 600 painting it a pearl purple and then cleared. I used it for years as a display and it looked perfect! I hung it up in my attic so it would get good and hot to affect it like it was on a car. I later did another, a freebee repair on a Chevy pickup where I fixed it with bondo and sanding it with 36 grit, feathered the paint around it with 120 and primed it with Featherfill. I sanded it starting with 180, up to 600 and painted it black. I checked on it many months later and there was zero sand scratches from that 36! The stuff is friggin amazing! And yes, you could bury a dime with it. Your typical factory paint job, primer, paint and clear is about 5mils. Four coats of featherfill gave me 21 mils! Yep, it's thick! It's literally like spraying bondo. I am not really big on it unless you REALLY need it. Something with a lot of lines like a tail gate or firewall, that's the perfect place so you don't have apply bondo sanding it with fine paper. You can shape it out with coarse paper where it's easy to sand and shape and then apply polyester primer like Featherfill and then sand it like it's a skim coat of bondo, works like friggin magic. Brian
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You mention steel and bondo, scratches from 80...or any grit, in steel are very different than filler, much deeper in filler. Also, not all primers are legit DTM. Might want to consider an epoxy primer like SPI before moving to a high build. HOK offers an epoxy high build that is supposedly the bees knees but I’ve never used it...hopefully someone on here can chime in that’s used it.
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Feather fill Is the same as slick sand just a thinner version I remember When slick sand was twice as thick for $35 a gallon the last Gallon I bought was $80 and at the local paint suppliers is over $100 and I imagine feather fill it’s probably the same price the best thing Is zero shrinkage I believe it was originally used on Corvettes to stop the die backs the feather fill comes in black I always use it on black cars love this stuff
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thanks alot guys
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SPI definitely has some build to it I don’t think I would use it over heavy scratches like 80 grit onless I was going to top Top it with slick sand or feather feel i’d be afraid to come back to haunt me
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What size of gun do you use ?
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I don't believe in leaving anything courser than 120 and preferably 180 prior to primer. Brian
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Depending on the primer, a 1.5-2.0
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Yep, you are right, I have a 2.3 for the polyester primer. It depends on what I am doing with the SPI. On the outside where I want a higher quality and proper flashing to be sure no issues, I use a 1.5. On the inside of of things and stuff that isn't so critical I use a 2.0 so it will cover fast.
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The only thing I would put over 80 grit is Bondo LMAO I always start out with the Epoxy on bare metal and then either feather fill or slick sand within the manufacturers timeline so I do not have to scuff the epoxy if while blocking it out I find a low I use filler when I am done blocking down to 180 grit I give it another coat of Featherfeel or slick sand for my finel blocking starting with 220 and finishing with 600
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High build is misused a lot of the times in my opinion. It gets used where people don't want to do proper body work. If you put a shell of thick filler over a large area or entire truck, eventually it will get a chip and moisture will creep. A full show car and never driven, maybe you wont have that trouble. I just hate seeing people do all this nice metal work and rust repair, then cover the entire truck in a sprayed coat of filler.
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So what do you use now that you have told us what you don’t use
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