Back again! What’s more, continuing the musical theme with another colour change. As you can see in the photo I’ve been busy making more mess. It appears that the latest material to appear on the b0dywork buck, the black pattern coat primer, creates even more mess than its predecessors.
The primer is essentially a specialised soft filler that’s applied with a brush and, after the black finish I showed you last time I now set about sanding it back so I got a nice flat (ish) surface. As you can tell in quite a lot of places I broke through the primer coat to the underlying materials. What you can’t tell is that the whole thing is a lot smoother than it was before.
Inevitably, all of the removed material was turned, as is now traditional, into dust this time of an amazingly fine black variety. (It actually flowed down surfaces, such as the car, almost like a liquid.) Needless to say, the mess this has created is astonishing. It’s also killed one of my vacuum cleaners…
After that, which took about a day of solid work I cleaned up and made it all black again! What you can’t tell, especially in this shoddy photo where some of the dust seems to be on the camera lens, is that it’s actually a lot more consistent in appearance and smoother too. The previous black version had quite a lot of furry MDF poking up to the outside. In this one all of that’s been rubbed away by yours truly.
Of course, now I’ve got to do it all over again…
That’s some seriously impressive work, well done Mr H. and all involved!
On a side note, (I’m a scientist who works on inhaled medicine) you are using the very best fine powder respirator you can find whilst doing all this? Activated carbon filters or those little paper face masks will not cut it, a full face respirator with HEPA grade filters is what you need.
Ditto HEPA filters for your vacuum cleaners for clean up.
To go really far (but probably not too far) you probably ought to wear a hooded Tyvek body suit and take the thing off outside. You’re generating a lot of fine dust in a respirable range which can hang around in the air for hours and you don’t want to be breathing it in.
Apologies if I’m teaching you to suck eggs, but folk often underestimate how bad sanding dust can be.
Peter,
Thanks. I’m well aware of the issues with lots of fine dust. (TBH, I often just try to leave the door open but it gets a bit parky in the winter.)
Gets a bit tedious with the valves clunking in the masks all the time though… 🙂 I’ve not gone to the trouble of a full suit, but I do have separate garage clothing and house clothing, mainly to stop spreading dust into the house though…
Tim
Tim
That’s good to hear! I’d somewhat assumed that you were on the case but internet paranoia is free