How to Use Masking Paper in Painting a Car

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Doug. I work with twenty great guys, in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins custom hot rods and we're going to do some work for you today on Expert Village. Next is masking paper. We have a machine over there in the corner. We'll show you that in a sec, where you pull the paper off and it puts tape, automatically, on one edge of it. It saves you a step. Every time you can, you try to save a step. Most of the time, we use three quarter inch tape, a little bit on the paper, a little bit on the car. To hold the joint of the two pieces of paper, he's using inch and a half tape, cause the paper is going to crumple up a little bit and you want to be able to cover up any of the seam there so paint doesn't get behind the paper. Now Alex is taping the back side of the pinch weld. We don't want a bunch of paint blowing under the car and painting things that shouldn't be painted. So we tape from the back side against the pinch weld so that the part of the pinch weld you can see, the black part, we're going to paint the whole length of that. We'll drape paper down there so that the paint doesn't blow up underneath the car and get on the back side of the wheels and that kind of thing"