Thread: Media blasting question

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Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

i would hand sand the body down by hand and a D.A sander at low speed with alot of fresh paper on it if have seen were a D.A can screw things up to in the wrong hands start with 80 grit and work up to 120 sand out the low spots with 80 grit you do not want to have loss of hook up on the new paint and you would not want to put any filler over air dry acrylic primer . with all the money you spent on that body i would be very worried that it would come back a lot more screwed up hard to warp it all up by hand sanding

AS a note to Pat's post - the Brookville bodies are built from an extremely soft draw quailty steel to save their dies from excessive wear - which are made from an engineering plastic. About the only places that I found the DA useable was the slab sided rear quarters. When I hand sanded the doors and trunk lid, I used my 10 and 17 inch flat boards, other area, I used whatever worked. Most of the rest of the body has too many raised details to risk damaging with an out of control DA. The only way to fully and sucessfully clean off the primer is to totally disassemble the car to its lowest common denominator in bits and pieces - I even took the door hinges apart. I did NOT remove the Brookville primer on the inside of the doors, the trunk lid nor any other areas that are covered and upholstered.