How to Mask Inside a Car for Painting

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. Now Tony's getting prepared to do the final color sanding and buffing. I mentioned earlier that we work in the real world here, so there is dirt in the paint, there is imperfections in it. Paint does not come out of your gun perfectly. In the old days people used to talk about twenty coats of hand-rubbed lacquer. Well we put three coats of urethane on the car, and then we color sand it one time, so that's the hand-rubbing part. But with the modern materials it's a lot easier. So he's masking up all the surfaces he's not going to be color sanding. He's going to make a mess with the water, he's going to make a mess with the buffer, and he doesn't want to clean it up all over the whole car, so he masks it up pretty carefully. So it doesn't sling in everywhere. He's covering up the dash. He's covering up the cowl vents. It can take forever to clean compound and sanding water out of those areas. And he's using plastic because it holds water better than paper."