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Week 4-Sanding the Passenger Side3/13/2024 This week was a continuation of the very frigid work weather outside.
The work for this week was very hard. This is for the same reason as the other week, the temperature. As I try to work when I have free time, that happens to be in the dark, when I do. The only way I could avoid this would be to work on this project before doing other homework, which doesn't feel like a very good thing being that I have time to work on this, as it is not due tomorrow, such as other homework. This does set me back a little bit because working in the cold is not easy. When I say cold, I mean it was in the 20s this week. This made my hands very stiff and hard to work with. Even with gloves on, working in this temperature was not cool. Although, I was able to finish with the first stage of sanding on the passenger side of the truck. I say the first stage because I will have to come back likely, multiple times to keep on getting the surface more and more decent. Sanding this week was fairly straightforward, I was just taking down what I needed to, to see the uneven areas through layers of paint. The way I did this was seeing in what fashion the layers of paint were layered. After I know this, I sanded down as evenly as possible and saw where different paints were showing in different places, showing me that there was either a hump or a divot in the metal. From there, I had to decide whether to wait to fill it or try to sand it down to be even. I started by sanding over each panel, taking a fair amount of material off, then I sanded down wherever it looked like I could sand to be even, and waited for the spots that needed filler. The worst areas on the passenger side were definitely right above the wheel well and a decent sized dent in the door. The dent in the door will have to be filled, though.
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