We take great care in making sure everything is smooth from all angles.
Do we get too picky? We don’t think so We’re only going to do it right, not half assed.
All the edges are smoothed out and continued to the inside of the tank.
Edges are cleaned and smoothed down with a die grinder around all areas of the
tank mounts or anywhere the stuff doesn’t belong.
After 14 hours...yes, that’s right...14, the tank is straight.
As you can see, there isn’t much showing of the original metal.
Simply amazing huh?
Now that everything is cleaned up and the body work is done, it’s time
to shoot a coat of polyester primer over it to smooth out all the sand marks.
The polyester primer has been shot on and now you have a nice smooth surface. They nasty welds have been repaired along with all the other imperfections
on this particular gas tank.
At this point the cost for labor @ $45 an hour is $630.
The cost of the tank was about $470.
You’d be looking at a total of $1070 in the tank thus far, not including the paint. Paint is priced separately depending on the paints used. The tank is now ready to get an epoxy primer and we can start laying on the base color.
The tank has been primed, the base color shot on
and 3 coats of clear applied. We aren’t all that concerned with the orange peel look of the clear at this point.
It’s going to get wet sanded down so we can get ready to start the artwork. The tank is getting wet sanded using 800 grit sand paper. We use Ivory soap making the
wet sanding easier. This gives a nice “tooth” for the artwork to stick to. You want to be sure all the shine is gone and a dull surface remains.
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