Re: tips on painting fiberglass hood

From: Eric Jerman (ejerman69@hotmail.com)
Date: Sat Jul 13 2002 - 14:19:18 EDT


> Sounds good, Eric. Your numbers have jogged my fading mem cells.
> We used 180 to take out the major blemishes on a fiberglass bumper
> cover. My son's experience has been that 600 grit (wet) 'might' show fine
> sand scratches if using base/clear coat paint so he uses 400 grit (wet).
> He finds 600 wet is no problem if using acrylic enamel. Does that sound
> about right to you?
>
> Bob

> Correct me if I'm wrong...but the lower the grit, the coarser the paper...
so therefore you would have more sand scratches on the surface if you used
400 grit than you would if you used a paper of higher grit, say about 600
grit(smaller sanding particles)....so 600 would be smoother than 400
grit...Correct? That is why you use 2,000 grit to wet sand the final clear
before you do any buffing...



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