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Week 7-Body Filler on the Hood4/10/2024 This week was filled with learning. The weather was much nicer, although I got to work in the shop.
I purchased a couple of different brands of body filler (Ever coat and Bondo) at O'Reilly's a couple weeks ago, and this week, I finally got to start using it. This week I was able to work in the shop, but it was becoming not such a big deal as the weather is getting nicer and it's warming up a little bit outside. The first thing that I did was read the instructions on the Ever coat filler. I chose to use this filler first because it was color changing. This means that when the putty is getting closer to and finishes setting, it will change colors. I figured that this would be helpful being that this is my first rodeo with body filler. That was one of the main reasons I bought the color changing putty as well. The instructions told me what ration of hardener to put in the putty. I learned that the ratio that is mentioned on the instructions is only a baseline. I fiddled with the ratio of hardener/putty the whole time I was working as to try to get the most optimal drying and work time out of it. The first step of applying the putty was cleaning the areas where I was going to be using it so that it would stick to the surface. Next, I mixed up a batch of Ever Coat putty with the recommended ratio of filler/hardener. When I went to apply the putty on the hood, I realized that the filler was already drying and did not give me enough time to work. I then had to mess with the amount of hardener I put in the filler so that I could successfully use the filler I was trying to use before it dried. On the next go round, I used quite a bit less hardener, and guess what? The filler putty did not dry, even after several minutes of sitting there, it was still as if it never had any hardener put in it. I worked on tweaking this ratio and getting the hood floated as best as possible.
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