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Painting a work trucks bed that has had greasy car parts and oil back there. What's the best degreaser and how do you apply it? Surface needs to be as clean as possible for the epoxy coating. I mopped some yellow "Awesome" degreaser back there already and pressure washed it already.

Fun idea. Beater pickup has lots of rust spots, peeling clear coat, dings. It will never be a show truck and the bed is rusting pretty good at the corners from years of wet leaves and crap and spots of body that I sanded down to metal are rusting through the primer. SO....I got a free gallon of...

Doing a primer coat on the beater mini truck. Body is as straight and prepped as Im going to get it and I want to give it a final coat of primer so its all the same color and wont rust before we actually get it painted its blue color. I have a spray gun (an older binks style craftsman and a new...

Does anyone make an electric inline (body) sander for under $100? Not production quality, just a hobby grade. Unless my craftsman 6.3SCFM @90 psi compressor can handle a pneumatic one?

WTH? I mixed up a small 3" round x 1/2" pad of 3M Bondo and mixed it up with a 3" stripe of hardner as described in instructions. Mixed it for about 2 minutes and by the time I was slapping it onto the dent it was not even spreading anymore, just clumping and way harder than I remember it. Whats...

The stuff between the roof and the drip rail...is it a mastic, ie. squirted in and let set or is it a piece of tar strip? Mine is seperating from the roof leaving a nice crack. 65 Barracuda.

Never painted a car...painted a house once. Here are a few stupid paint questions that would never be asked seriously: What makes automobile paint 'auto' grade? At >$200 a gallon? They have high gloss paints at Home Depot in pints, even metallics... could you paint a car with that paint and...

fleet white is cheap, can you tint it or add pearl to it? A non-painter would like to know. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009HD5S44/?tag=fabo03-20

Not on any A I know of but every new car has those polycarbonate headlight covers now. I spent an hour on one side of my 2014 Caravans front lights using 1200 and 2000 grit sandpaper getting all the old clearcoat and other crap off the lenses and then polishing them clear. Now what do I use to...

took a pic of my 65 tach and noticed 'stress' cracks (all I can think of calling them) in the plastic lens. Would liquid resin fill the cracks or just leave a big blob of clear goo? Being concave, I cant apply with the pressure method but I may be able to apply a vacuum behind it and let the...

Has anyone masked off and sprayed a stripe on their car? How difficult is it and are there any tricks? I suppose if I got the surface very smooth (it a 15 year old paint job) and free of wax could I just mask it and give it a few light coats of gloss black? It would be a 'factory' stripe on my...

Looking for a quart/pint of Toyota 3K3 Garnet Pearl, crosses to Ditzler/PPG 4478 or Dupont W9512. Any paint guys that can mix help a brother out with a few cheap links? Id rather not pay ~$85 if there is a cheap single stage out there. Would shoot from small gun or airbrush as the damage is...

saw this on an MB website. Dude stripped his clear, touched up base coat and applied a 2 part clear coat out of some 2 part combo can (break seal and shoot!) then applied this 'ceramic coating' to the paint in a wax on wax off method. Looked like it was wet paint after words...

My '65 headlight bezels are shot, was considering trying that chrome wrap stuff to see if it would make them look driveable. Its a 100% garaged car so no UV issue. Wondering how it looks after you stretch it and shrink it. Saw a bullet rear view mirror done and it looked like it was dipped! I...

anodized aluminum such as on my '65's headlight bezels. It was scratched pretty bad and had a few dings that were not going to pound out, like right on the compound edge. So I filled the scratches with bondo glazing creme (very thin premixed filler) and built up the edge dint and sanded back to...