04-16-2020, 11:59 AM
|
#11 (permalink)
|
|
A True Z Fanatic
Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: West Michigan
Posts: 31,410
Drives: Granma red Z
Rep Power: 2684430
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by gbrettin
Started in on sanding the hood and let me tell you this, tooling gel gets hard AF! I started off with my 400grit sanding block and quickly went down to 60. You are looking at 3.5hrs of sanding. There's a LOT more sanding to go as well. I'm going to try doing some surgical hits with the death wheel tonight to reduce arm fatigue. I will also need to do a skim coat in almost all the areas and do another knockdown with fine grit. Eventually I will make it up to 1500 wet sanding. Last step is polishing, distant horizon at this rate. Like I said, this mould is workable and will take a lot of work.
|
When you get good at sanding try your hand at finishing a plastic injection mold for clear plastic part like a headlight.  I never had the patience to sit there but the guys would sand with 220 and work up to a finish with Charmin toilet paper, and it had to be charmin. 
|
|
|
Similar Threads
4127Likes
Threaded Mode
