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Week 5-Sanding the Driver Side3/20/2024 Yet again, another cold week.
This week was not quite as bad, it got up in the 30s at night which made working a little better, although it was still very, very, cold. Although, I still got the whole driver side of the truck sanded down. I executed this task just as I did last week, on the passenger side. I started by taking off as much material as I felt was needed to get a good perspective on what needs to be done. In some areas, just like the passenger side, I did make it to metal. As I explained in the previous blog post, this means that there is a uneven area, whether it be a spot that is too high that would show because it got sanded down faster than the surrounding areas because it was protruding, or if it is making a bare metal circle because of a low spot. This happens/happened for the same reason that the high spot does, the sander will sand down the whole area, but if there is a low spot, the sander will not hit it. While I was already in motion, I decided that I would try to clean up the bed rails and take at least some of the scars out of it. I did a fair job with this, though it did take a very long time as some of the scars were pretty deep. To do this, I used a coarse/medium grit sandpaper (120-240 grit) to get the biggest of the scars out. This helped quickly take off material, meaning I did not have to stand there for several hours with a higher grit sandpaper trying to get the big scars out, they came out within 15 seconds each. After I had gotten the biggest of scars out, that's when I went over it with the 240 grit sandpaper, to get it just a tad bit more smooth than it was on the first go round.
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