gagt98driver
09-02-2003, 10:30 AM
I found a great touch up tool that may be useful to many people here on the forums. Its called a sanding pen and is made by 3m/Scotch. I got it at Wal-Mart for $5.
It looks like a black permanet marker and the tip of it is made up of some sort of very stiff fiber glass strands all smaller than a human hair. It allows you to get into small scratches and chips to clean them up and smooth out the edges without damaging the paint around them so that you can apply primer and touch-up without worrying about it flaking off or rusting through.
I just used it last week on my Century. There was a rock chip on the roof that was deep enough to be down to the bare metal. The chip was about the width of .5mm mechanical pencil lead and about 1mm in lenght. The sanding pen allowed me to get deep down in the chip and get all the rust out of it without damaging the surrounding paint. I then used the pen to feather the edges of the surrounding paint so that when I put on the touch up paint it would be level with the factory paint. I then touched up with primer and top color coat (eventually I get some clearcoat and put it over it as well). All in all it created a touch-up spot no bigger than half the diameter of a typical cigarette that is almost perfectly level with the surrounding paint. All I need to do now is get a bit of buffing compound and smooth out the little spot.
Good product, good price, good results. I highly recommend it. It would probably work wonders on any rock chips someone had on the front portion of their hood.
It looks like a black permanet marker and the tip of it is made up of some sort of very stiff fiber glass strands all smaller than a human hair. It allows you to get into small scratches and chips to clean them up and smooth out the edges without damaging the paint around them so that you can apply primer and touch-up without worrying about it flaking off or rusting through.
I just used it last week on my Century. There was a rock chip on the roof that was deep enough to be down to the bare metal. The chip was about the width of .5mm mechanical pencil lead and about 1mm in lenght. The sanding pen allowed me to get deep down in the chip and get all the rust out of it without damaging the surrounding paint. I then used the pen to feather the edges of the surrounding paint so that when I put on the touch up paint it would be level with the factory paint. I then touched up with primer and top color coat (eventually I get some clearcoat and put it over it as well). All in all it created a touch-up spot no bigger than half the diameter of a typical cigarette that is almost perfectly level with the surrounding paint. All I need to do now is get a bit of buffing compound and smooth out the little spot.
Good product, good price, good results. I highly recommend it. It would probably work wonders on any rock chips someone had on the front portion of their hood.