{"id":102,"date":"2004-04-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:57:16","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:57:16","slug":"bel-air\/one-down-loads-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/?p=102","title":{"rendered":"One Down, Loads to Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rear passenger quarter was starting to drive me mental. I could not make a decent job of the filler, and it kept ending up uneven. I ground it out and did it again and it was still not right. I ground it out again and looked at the metal properly and realised that it was stretched and had popped out in two places which was why I couldn&#8217;t fill it. Probably why it had so much filler in originally. I popped it back in and dented it in the centre with a pointy hammer, fill and skim and bingo. Done. At last. Another hour or so of fine sanding and I gave it a light coat of rattle can primer.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/04\/RearQuarterFlat.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"301\" alt=\"RearQuarterFlat.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It looks uneven in the photo above, but it&#8217;s just the filler showing through the paint. Feels and looks good. I carried on round to the join on the fins and started replacing the lead that I had ground out. I was using U-Pol filler now, and it&#8217;s loads better than the P38 I was using previously, much finer and less air bubbles. I bought some 1k primer and a gun on Friday, but after some discussion with people who know better, and a bit of research, I&#8217;ve decided to take it back and buy epoxy primer. Lets see how it goes. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/04\/WingEndStarted.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"291\" alt=\"WingEndStarted.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rear passenger quarter was starting to drive me mental. I could not make a decent job of the filler, and it kept ending up uneven. I ground it out and did it again and it was still not right. I ground it out again and looked at the metal properly and realised that it was stretched and had popped out in two places which was why I couldn&#8217;t fill it. Probably why it had so much filler in originally. I popped it back in and dented it in the centre with a pointy hammer, fill and skim and bingo. Done. At last. Another hour or so of fine sanding and I gave it a light coat of rattle can primer.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/04\/RearQuarterFlat.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"301\" alt=\"RearQuarterFlat.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It looks uneven in the photo above, but it&#8217;s just the filler showing through the paint. Feels and looks good. I carried on round to the join on the fins and started replacing the lead that I had ground out. I was using U-Pol filler now, and it&#8217;s loads better than the P38 I was using previously, much finer and less air bubbles. I bought some 1k primer and a gun on Friday, but after some discussion with people who know better, and a bit of research, I&#8217;ve decided to take it back and buy epoxy primer. Lets see how it goes. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/BelAir\/2004\/04\/WingEndStarted.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"291\" alt=\"WingEndStarted.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project55.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}