Classic Car Sanding Supplies in Your Shop

You need a lot of paintwork on your vehicle you're gonna have to sand obviously. 'Cause that's critical to having a great paint job. If you don't sand properly, you don't prepare the body. I mean, that's most of the paint job when you really get down to it. This a huge tray of equipment here is what Mark uses on a regular basis.

He paints a lot of cars, but he has equipment that you should have as well. If you're gonna paint even one car you need to have the right products. This particular thing, these are a sanding blocks for different-- Sanding blocks. Different projects and such. Obviously the curvature of the vehicle would be appropriate for that.

Why don't you take us through a few things that you have here starting with, I mean, we obviously have blocks. We have the powder cam that you use to dry coat powder. Okay. So you put that over the primer and then as you're blocking it disappears. And then you know if your surface is straight or not.

It's very handy. Right? So you have a even across the board, obviously. Then you know when there are high spots and low spots and-- Right, any remaining powdered black areas will be a low spot. So you have to keep blocking or re-prime, whichever is necessary.

And then you pick your block. There's a whole series of different blocks here. And you know, short blocks for smaller areas, large blocks for larger areas. Flexible blocks for when you're getting into curves and things like that. And the other key is to use different, is to have multiple blocks.

So you don't have to change your sandpaper. Very good. For the adherence of the sandpaper to the block, there's something called Hookit, which is something that 3M uses. And it sticks to the block very well. And it's easy to put on and take off.

Right? And it comes in long strips. There is a sandpaper in a variety of grits. You can have just about any grit you can think of. What's interesting is you've also created some of these, you know, individual blocks.

You know, obviously this is for small areas, you're using a paint stick and you're adhering the sandpaper. It doesn't matter what the situation is, but you could build blocks to do specific specific projects. So, works out great. So it's important to get the right sanding block and equipment for whatever your application is. It's really important to invest in these kinds of tools, because it really will affect the final product.