The removal of small scratches on the car

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Unfortunately, the car must sooner or later painted on the body over time, appear small scratches, small chips that do not give the owner of sleep. Good give away machine specialists who quickly and efficiently resolve these problems, but the cost is not cheap. On the other hand, with some skill to remove small defects of the walk should take around half a day.



Stage one-the "mopping up". It starts with the removal of rust and dirt. No special tricks-only hands and fine sandpaper. If you don't want to paint all the detail of the machine, it is not necessary to clean-up grab too much area around the problem.



Second operation-filler. It should be two-component (with hardener), polyester. Read the manual carefully. For shpatlevki apply special spatula of thin metal or rubber. The coating must be applied thinly, trying to make a flat surface. PuTTY quickly hardens, it should therefore be applied within a few minutes after cooking.

After drying shpatlevki it is possible to start the third phase-"zaškurivaniû". Zaškurivaniâ task is to ameliorate the surface flush with the surface. To remove the roughness of medium grit sand paper pick up, put on the smooth wooden bar and with easy clamp zaškurivajte špaklëvannoe place, gently pouring water. Then turn on fine paper. The quality of the places checked by hand, spending on work surface. If necessary, you have "bumps" and "pits", you will want to repeat again and stopping of sanding.



The fourth operation-priming the restored sites. Primer can be applied a tampon, a brush or a spray. Very convenient to use cartridges with a first coat, bought in the car business. After ground drawing clearly shows the quality of the previous operations. Primed and filled surface proškurivaût very small skin. This work is done with water, washing out waterproof sandpaper and work surface. You need to eliminate even the most minor risks and irregularities. The environmental bottleneck surface carefully pass very small skin, making it opaque.

Picking up the "colour", it is necessary to know what kind of paint was painted your car and room paint colors. If the car is new, then numbered paint will not be different from the color of the body and after a few washes the painted the place will not be easy to detect. To pick up the paint for older machines, you must remove the filling hatch as sample and ask the station service station, where you will pick up the paint very accurately.

Small spots can be easily painted over ball and brush. But it would be better for this purpose apply a spray bottle. Small hand-operated sprayers, pears can be bought at any Auto store.



Surface degreased before painting with solvent. How to work with the paint spray? It is useless to give advice, it is better to try. No need to be afraid of roughness and streaks from that started it all. Just after the paint has dried, treat the surface of a small skin with water and try again. Then in five to seven minutes over the first layer of paint put the second-last.

If you're not a bummer the spend all these jobs on a single piece of metal, for example, on an old bucket. Get the necessary experience and "first pancake" may surprise, will give confidence in their abilities.