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How to Tac Rag a Car for Painting

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From Quick Guide: Auto Painting 101

Summary: Use a tac rag--a piece of cheese cloth soaked in wax--on a car before you give it a custom paint job to remove lint; learn how from our expert custom-car mechanic in this free auto-restoration video.

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Doug Jenkins runs Doug Jenkins Custom Hot Rods in St. Louis, where he restores classic cars and creates mild to wild custom street rods. He races a 1972 Corvette in the SCCA...read more

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on 6/3/2009 ...from an expert in the design, manufacture and application of tack cloth...please note that modern commercial tack cloths are not made with "beeswax", but are instead made with a variety of specialty polymers that have been formulated to removed dust, dirt and lint while minimizing the chance of tack transfer. And some special tack cloths are made not with the common cotton cheesecloth, but with "lint free" non-fibrous textiles (standard in auto assembly paint process). Tack cloths will vary widely in quality between manufacturers, and there are many different designs on the market for a variety of applications. More technical information is on our web site at JLyman.com

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"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. Okay now the car is completely clean, and Tony's got a tack rag there. A tack rag is a piece of cheesecloth soaked in beeswax. Now, the car is completely clean. It's all been degreased, there are no finger prints on there, and you see he's got latex gloves on. If you take that tack rag and lean on it, you can see where getting beeswax on the car would make the paint not stick, so all the tack rag does is remove any lint. Now, we had paper towels in there cleaning, there's lint in the air. Right before you shoot your paint, the last thing you do is wipe it down with a tack rag to get all that residual dust and lint off of there. And every time Tony wipes a car, everything he's doing, he's always watching checking for imperfections. If he sees an imperfection one time around, and he sees it the second and third and fourth times around, he'll know whether or not it needs to be fixed."

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