Hi John,
Welcome to the metal gang.
Sheetmetal parts are graded on finish as "paint grade," "plating grade" and "polished."
I've seen some awesome beautiful delicately-filed paint-grade work (V12 Packard dual cowl) get loaded up with "metalman in a can" and then hog-sanded so that all of the delicate body lines were lost, (and this was a Pebble Beach level shop that took some BoS at Pebble!) The metal man quit the next day. Can't blame him. Took him over a year to bring that car up. I offered to hire him on in my shop, but he had other plans for nursing his remorse.
The painter still works there.
"You never know from where you sit, where the man in the balcony is going to spit." Gene Halvorson, 1947.
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Kent
"All it takes is a little practical experience to blow the he!! out of a perfectly good theory." --- Lloyd Rosenquist, charter member AWS, 1919.
Last edited by crystallographic; 04-25-2019 at 05:11 PM.
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