Game Called on Account of Rain (well, wind!)

We had plans to spend 2 of the 3 days this Holiday weekend spraying Slicksand, and started out early this morning working to prep the body before the expected high winds arrived. Unfortunately, Tropical Storm Lee was just close enough to bring us 10-15MPH wind.

That is too windy to spray outdoors, and I really don't want to make a mess of the garage by spraying Slicksand in there. By tomorrow, the rain will be here and it won't leave until Wednesday.

So, we focused on sanding the hood instead. While you weren't looking, we put guide coat on the entire hood and sanded it off of almost all of it. The only area left to do is the passenger side headlight area.

You'll notice a number of dark spots on the hood. This is referred to as "burn through", places where we've sanded through the Slicksand to the original gelcoat (or filler) beneath. It is not a problem, as we will spray two more coats of Slicksand before sanding to 320 grit.

In this nextpicture, you can see a couple of small craters that we found on the passenger side fender. These usually occur along the seams between the pieces of the body. Smaller ones are called pinholes, but these are a little bigger so I call them craters. We have a special Metal Glaze product for filling these, so we'll apply that before we spray more Slicksand on the hood.

As for the storm, the chassis is hunkered down under a tarp. We have more than half a dozen bungie cords holding the tarp together under the car, so it should stay put. The storm will bring lots of rain, but only enough wind to spoil today. :-)