<VV> body advice

Kirby Smith kirbyasmith at gwi.net
Wed Jun 22 09:50:26 EDT 2005


The objection to lacquer primer surfacer is due to....?

Kirby Smith
66 turbo corsa
88 90q
95 S6

Frank DuVal wrote:
> I have to agree with Alan on this subject. Even on this side of the pond 
> 99.99% of body repairs use bondo (plastic filler) as the final smoothing 
> layer before priming. One should avoid using the old lacquer based putty 
> ( was red and green ) to fill pinholes and scratches like in the old 
> days. Just as one should avoid lacquer primer surfacer. There are some 
> wonderful catalized products to fill scratches and pinholes. So when a 
> shop says they do not use putty, they could mean the lacquer stuff, or 
> they use lead, or they just lie.
> 
> 
> Frank DuVal
> 



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