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RE: Paint chipping from steering wheel spokes

Subject: RE: Paint chipping from steering wheel spokes
From: "Randall" <ryoung@navcomtech.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2000 20:23:55 -0700charset="iso-8859-1"
Cc: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
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Hmm, now that you mention it, that does sound a little too slick.

However, _I_ didn't write that, I wrote a reply about using Acryli-clean
instead of lacquer thinner.

Randall
(randallyoung@earthlink.net when I'm at home <g>)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: TexasTR4@aol.com [mailto:TexasTR4@aol.com]
>
> In a message dated 04/22/2000 12:07:20 PM Mountain Daylight Time,
> randallyoung@earthlink.net writes:
>
> > I sanded the bare metal with 400, then 600,
> >  > and finally 800 grit, then cleaned with lacquer thinner.
>  I sprayed on
> the
> >  > gray primer.  Then I sprayed the black top coat.  I
> allowed the wheel to
> > dry
>
>
> A late repy I know...just got home , but isn't a rougher
> surface needed for
> adhesion of the primer?   I'd sand with 240 grit or so to
> give the primer
> something to hang onto.  800 grit must have made it quite slippery..
>
> RH
>


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