How To Do An Effective Smart Repair Part 1

The soft edge !!! Yes , good idea using folded tape. Feathering edges

Great tutorial. Interesting about the panel heat lamp and it heats the substrate panel surface. Commercial panel lamps are quite expensive, would a patio heater style lamp work?

What a great video top work very informative and easy to understand I will be trying a smart repair on my S3 roof tomorrow hopefully saves it a trip to body shop😊

I'm looking to become a smart repair technician at 28. Got a interview on Tuesday next week

Hi i need to respray a patch on my door and it is with Met candy red ( fords) what colour primer do i use please

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Great video. How do you know how much paint is needed for each coat? Do you use a depth gauge? What is the ratio for primer, base and clear you use for smart repair?

Hi Tony,
Newbie paint sprayer here.
Can I spray 2k without an air fed respirator?
Thanks
Andy

This is a great learning video. What I would really like to see a tutorial on is a smart repair on a door edge. Like a door that has several chips along edge, how to blow paint repair on chips and blend into rest of door

Great stuff ,thank you!

Dump the music

Details of the how to and why really helpful and clear. Very well done

A used black car I recently bought had scratches and small dents on the panels. So the cardealer gave my car to a SMART repair person to repair the scratches and dents. On return of my car, I noticed lots of white spots (in the area where the werk was done) that couldn't be removed when I rubbed them with my finger or fingernail. Are the white spots the results from overspray?

How about a video on the exact same using a light coloured metallic paint and how to avoid patchy or blend marks. ?

The problem I cannot solve is why does my 400 paper clog up straightaway when dry sanding my cured primer ???

Thank you!

Thanks for your skilled professional tips very well said great video man Awesome thanks again.

Hi mate, thank you the great video. What Air pressure did you use on the 1.0 Spray Gun? How many bars was it?

if not forced drying is used (by means of lamps , air heater , etc) if you over-reduce the primer, the reducer within the mix will not affect the substrates after some time?

I mean that prep sanding marks can apear in the job after cca. 5 months? maybe too much reducer will somehow destabilize the chemicals in the substrates and primer above will copy any scratch from underneath ...

Is this possible? (maybe more pronunced with cheaper products) many many thanks

Great video.

I have a sprinter van I would like painting in 2K, where do you work out of?

I have a question I hope you will answer. I own a ‘99 Black C5 Corvette Coupe. When I purchased it privately back in 2010 I purchased it with a 3-1/2” scratch on the roof panel. I was told it happened when the previous owner took the roof panel off the car and placed it in the back of the car under the hatchback. It slipped out of his hands. The scratch to me looks like it is just in the Clear Coat. I can easily catch my finger nail inside of it. I have done body repair in the past with great results. My thought is to prep it and only try to fill the inside of the scratch overlapping the surface some with Clear Coat and after it drys really good lightly wet sand it until it blends with the rest of the surface. What are your thoughts on someone like myself doing this? I have no idea what Clear Coat to use on it. Was thinking of just having a paint shop mix some clear for me and put it in a rattle can to do the job. They usually do it where there is a button under the can you press to add the hardener. Your thoughts?

Nice efficient work...like ur thinking. One thing. 2k. No gloves?

Quality work on this and other - whereabouts are you based as I could really do with your advice and help if possible please ? Thanks

MY GOD HE"S FROM MANCHESTER

Would you of preferred to use the Iwata AZ4 Impact JUNIOR HTE 1.0mm Smart Repair Spray Gun for this job... if you had the gun back then

Not to be rude ,but it’s a lot of wasted time ,da amd feather ,wipe it once amd
Prime ,to get a good result,all that isn’t required,even for a first class job

Hi, Tony, can you provide the necessary drying times if you dont have a heat lamp that you used on the video. Each time you used it, Please?

wished you were based in burton on trent cos i would be using your skills for certain

I used to flat it off by having with wet dry and soapy water does it make any difference by hand or with the DA

3000 is way too fine, 1500 max. No need to go any finer, 1500 polishes out nicely.

Bloody brilliant for us Sunday have a go heros

I always spray a fine mist of satin,or mat black on the primer to see the low areas,,,

Turn down music. Otherwise great!.

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Get ride of the music does my head in

It's like watching paint dry 😆

Hi dear master:will you exlain about blending paints and material is used as reducers and make a movie ?

Certainly not a smart repair mate!!

Non-stop talking ....wow! And by the way, it would have been nice if you would have would have put a link to the second part of the video!

Absolutely, a brilliant video. Best smart repair vid out there.

Won’t the primer start peeling on areas that were only sanded with 1000 grit? I thought needed at least 400 grit to adhere to?

You blocked down to bare metal. But, you went with the Filler as opposed to a 2K Epoxy Primer or Etch. How do you determine whether to Filler or 2K Epoxy?

For those of us without a DA sander and using an aerosol spraint can of paint can you answer the following:


1) When block sand sanding the primer with p400 do you extend past the areas you sanded with p1000 in the previous step?


2) Can you use 3M grey scotch brite scuff pad instead of the 3M p1000 grit pad you used with the DA sander?


3) Can you use the same 3M grey scotch brite pad instead of the p1000 grit paper you used to sand the filler and surrounding area?


Thanks

Filler or Epoxy Primer? After sanding through clear/base/Primer down to bare metal, Which should I use for a quick deep scratch removal repair on a door panel?

Hi any chance you could do a spot repair using tangerine scream pearlescent and blend in the clear cheers?
Mick

Grate vidoe

Tony, if you was going to spray the whole panel after that small repair, would you still sand the whole panel with 3000 grit. Peter

This MIGHT be one of the better repair videos on the internet BUT, I cannot understand half of what he is saying due to that heavy brogue. it is REALLY infuriating.