Male Speaker: Body Fillers, we already repaired the dent, it's cross graded, so we are ready to start mixing body filler and applying it. We've already got the body filler out. Now, we are going to talk about body filler use for a minute because there is you a little bit of confusion like what is body filler and what is bondo, body filler is Bondo. Bondo is just a trade name like Coca Cola or whatever you know if you refer to soda as the coke or something like that similar thing. Bondo is just a brand name, it is not a product, just like Ever Coat is a brand of body filler, Bondo is a brand of body filler but just kind of became known out there as the trade name. This is Bondo, so but actually this is a body filler.
There are different -- body filler comes with different properties, some of them are little bit creamier or little bit easier to apply and make all that's easier to sand but also you know the easier to sand and some thing little bit creamier you know the cost goes up a little bit. So it's all basically the same stuff, body filler it is used to put on a dent to fill small imperfections.
You never want to put body filler more than a 8 inch, you don't want to built it up more than that.
It's always better to use a number of thin coats sanded out, find your highs and lows or whatever and put another coat, you don't want to try to do with one coat.
There are some different types of spreaders I have here. You can use different ones, plastic spreaders can be used I mean you can use these on any different types of dents. You see that I have different sizes, now we all like to use plastic spreaders in somewhere. Let's say -- con-curved area like this, I can get to some body filler on this plastic spreader and I can kind of make a spreader fit the con-curve a little bit. So, fit there you can't do that with a steel spreader. So these come in handy some times, I personally like to use the metal ones and they come in as thin as size of dent you have, there are different sizes.
A gallon of body filler, you notice that when you open it up it may separated, you can kind of see where the materials in it will separate a little bit, you don't want to start using it, you want to mix it up. If you don't have a paint shaker, you can use a stick and kind of stir it up some, but you want a consistent, one color, you don't want it separated. And the same thing with the hardener, every time you want to do this, I mean, if you are going like from one application to the next, and you know the same day or whatever it will be probably alright, but whenever you start to use it, it's the beginning of a new day or whatever this hardener will separate. So what you do in order to mix that up, you just mix it in a tube. You want to push the air out because we don't want it to build in then push it too good, tighten it back up. We got plenty of room. You are basically just mixing that up, I am going to do that, mix it up really good, because we don't want it to look like a colored water comes out first. knead it and we are going to apply some of the body filler.
Male Speaker: Tell me about your palette, what's this palette? .
Male Speaker: Alright okay whenever mixing your body filler, you want to use put on some type of surface that you don't want to use cardboard or anything like that because card board can absorb some of your resins and stuff like that and so want to use -- they make plastic boards -- something plastic will be fine, steel you could use steel. I have heard guys using glass something that you can't absorb in the resins into and we also have these tear out sheets, which is this type of paper does not absorb the resins in the body filler, so this would be fine but you do not want to use card board.
So we've got a small dent over there. You want to try to put the amount of body filler for that dent which is not going to take much, that was just a dent probably a little bigger than hail band, so I am going to use a paint stick just to get a little bit out and I am going to put the rest of the body filler back in this Can.
Now, without the hardener, this body filler will not harden but some of the stuff will evaporate in and it will get kind of thick and hard to use. So every time you are done and plus you never want the stuff to fall in there you know, because that will get in there later. And another thing you never want to do is stick something that's like if it is mixing in stuff and get partly hardened body filler back in there, you'd never ever think that you are going to save some body filler. I'll not be using it all, let's put it back in the Can, don't do that that'll mess the you know mess the whole Can up. So as soon as are done put the lid back on, just to keep it fresh.
Male Speaker: It'll make it thinner for this stuff--
Male Speaker: No, make sure there were no trash to get mixed in there. So the rule thumb is to every golf ball size of body filler, you want about a inch of hardener, you know or also it can be a dime size. To the golf ball but a dime sized. so let's say that's probably about a golf ball there, and we will put about an inch, or sometimes if I have an area that I am going to have a body filler over, I just kind of go across it or almost, so that's probably good right there.
Now, the thing that you don't want to do with your body filler is you don't want to stir it up because that's just going to get a bunch of air created in there and it's going to cause a bunch of pinholes. So you want to spread it in one direction you kind of go around, you kind of get it on your spreader and spread it back out. If you have more body filler, you can kind of get to where you can fold it up and kind of fold it over, not really enough here.
But if you'll notice there are streaks in it, you never want any streaks in it, you want to be one consistent color. So just keep mixing until you have all the streaks out of it. As you can see now all the streaks are taken out of it, it's one consistent color, so we are ready to apply the body filler. Now you only have a certain amount of time because this stuff has interacted with each other, it's mixed up and this stuff is going to start hardening already.
So you need to get it on there. You've only got up for about 5-10 minutes of workable time. Just put a thin coat on there. Now let's allow it to dry, you've got a certain amount of time that it can dry before it's fully hardened, you can use what's called as cheese grater, you'd want to do it on such a small dent. On a bigger dent that you could use a cheese grater, and you can grate a lot of it off or before it completely dries you can use some 36 just kind of level it out a little bit.
On a small dent like this, you can probably just go ahead and let it dry completely. I am going to probably use 36 on this, I have started out with 80 on a small dent and we'll cross sand it out.
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