How to Color Sand a Car's Paint Job

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Doug I work with 20 great guys in St. Louis at Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods and we are going to do some work for your today on Expert Village. Dan has finished painting the piece. You saw being clear coated and now he is doing a final color sand and buff. When you apply the clear coat in the booth, it comes out very nice. It lays down really sleeks, it looks really nice like a new car. But this is custom car, it is a hot rod, it has to be done better then a new car. So Dan takes 2000 girt sand paper after the clear coat has had a chance to dry overnight or so. You don't want it to dry for 2 weeks but you want to let it dry for at least 10-12 hours. Then he color sands it to get any slight affection out of the clear. There would be little bits of dust that has to be dealt with. There might be some runs that get in the clear coat you can sand those runs out. There might be a orange peel the texture of clear when it dries sometimes it is not absolutely glass smooth. So he takes 2000 grits sand paper and knocks that texture out of it."