Factory paint, wet sanded & buffed?

[Keith Seymore]

Originally Posted by 70 copo

To quote a paint superintendent during the walk around at MCACN in 2017

Thank you; at the risk of taking us even farther into the ditch:

I met via a mutual friend the gentleman who was at one time the paint shop supervisor in Pontiac, Michigan, where all three of my classic Pontiacs were built.

He said that the deficiencies on my car, including a "swiped area" on the decklid, were the result of pressing too hard on the "tack rag" (a treated cloth for wiping the car before paint. We still used those when I worked in the assembly plant in the late 70's and 1980's). He said the pressure causes the solvents from the rag to become embedded in the primer resulting in laquer checking in a very recognizable pattern.

He also said that any women working in the paint shop were required to tell him when they were menstruating. Apparently the female body emits a hormone very much like silicone which caused fish eyes in the paint (and therefore wreaked havoc in the paint shop).

Try getting away with THAT these days...

K