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Originally Posted by Charles Coe
The bare steel was treated with a rust preventive metal prep, followed by primer, and then nitrocellulose lacquer. After baking the body was sanded and then buffed to a high gloss.
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Don't forget about the 30% topcoat and the 70% thinner that was sprayed prior to buffing. I am not sure the body was "baked". I understood the process was to paint the body with both colors (if applicable) and then it sat while the interior was installed. It came back for light color sanding followed by the heavily thinned color which aided in flow. THEN it was sprayed with pure thinner yet again. I know the book has commented about this being done to aid in the edge of the paint becoming thin on the edges but I can tell you from experience shooting a car in Lacquer that all this does is created a fuzzy mess on the edge. The theory is grande, ...the results are less than grande!!
