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Engage the Paint Store Technicians
3Phase & Ben,
Thank you for the compliment. I still hope to find a bit of time somewhere along the line to lightly wet sand and buff JeffH's tank. That project was planned (at first) to be just a fuse block change and blossomed into much more. I am extremely happy to have been able to do that work for my friend and make the short deadline for departure to Colorado.
RE: Painting.
I am getting better every time I do this kind of work. Looking at some of my stuff from 5-6+ years ago (Trans Am & Z-28) I'm disappointed in that work. I need to get back to those sometime soon.
If there is any valuable advice I can give toward painting it would be this. Properly engage the people at the paint store. I've been buying paint from the same PPG store for several years and I don't even pretend to know much of anything when I speak to them. When I go in for paint, if there is a body shop guy there getting supplies, I step aside and wait till he is completely serviced (or gone) before I start asking my stupid questions. I don't want to distract them when they are making real money.
I am sure if I approached PPG like a "know-it-all" the mountains of free advice and information they very cheerfully provide would not be so forthcoming. Today, I can pick up the phone and call the paint shop guy on his PERSONAL PHONE ask a question and get a solid answer. I've even driven my work over there and the main guy will come out look at it and tell me where and how to improve it. I provide a box of Krispy-Kreme donuts once in a while and that seems to grease the wheels of information too.
Kurt
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Thank you for the compliment. I still hope to find a bit of time somewhere along the line to lightly wet sand and buff JeffH's tank. That project was planned (at first) to be just a fuse block change and blossomed into much more. I am extremely happy to have been able to do that work for my friend and make the short deadline for departure to Colorado.
RE: Painting.
I am getting better every time I do this kind of work. Looking at some of my stuff from 5-6+ years ago (Trans Am & Z-28) I'm disappointed in that work. I need to get back to those sometime soon.
If there is any valuable advice I can give toward painting it would be this. Properly engage the people at the paint store. I've been buying paint from the same PPG store for several years and I don't even pretend to know much of anything when I speak to them. When I go in for paint, if there is a body shop guy there getting supplies, I step aside and wait till he is completely serviced (or gone) before I start asking my stupid questions. I don't want to distract them when they are making real money.
I am sure if I approached PPG like a "know-it-all" the mountains of free advice and information they very cheerfully provide would not be so forthcoming. Today, I can pick up the phone and call the paint shop guy on his PERSONAL PHONE ask a question and get a solid answer. I've even driven my work over there and the main guy will come out look at it and tell me where and how to improve it. I provide a box of Krispy-Kreme donuts once in a while and that seems to grease the wheels of information too.
Kurt
One of the greatest human beings I had the pleasure to meet and know instantly... my phone cam has a distortion in the lens you can see it as some blue lines in any photo I take with it.
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