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How to Tape the Back of a Car for Painting

Tape the back of a car before you give it a custom paint job; learn how from our expert custom-car mechanic in this free auto-restoration video.

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Now Tony is going to very carefully mask the underside of the car a little bit. He is going to use duct tape to get started with. He is going to build some skirts to hang down along the inside of the car so we don't blow paint up everywhere underneath the car. Some of the underside of this car would look finished before Tony has got it. Some of the mechanical and some of it yet has to be done. But either way you don't want a bunch of paint blowing up under the car he uses duct tape. Because the underside of the car is probably dirty and duct tape sticks to everything better a lot better than masking tape does. This is called back masking when you mask from the back side of something to hand your paper on.

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How to Tape the Back of a Car for Painting

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