[MARTINSR]

The video is self explanatory but I'll explain. I believe in having super clean, tools that are in good shape for speading filler. Just because it is a "necessary evil" to use these tools to spread filler that will then be sanded doesn't mean that your tools should be held to any less standard than any other tool. Yes, they will be covered with filler and all goopy, so what, so is your paint gun all covered with paint, buy you clean it. If you don't clean it you will end up with a poor spraying gun, and it will be spitting crud from previous paint jobs on the one you are currently doing. What makes a spreader and mixing board any different?

The smoother you get the filler on, the less sanding needed, right? The nicer the tool the nicer the filler will be spread. The nicer the filler is spread, the less sandign needed. I don't know about you, but I am all about less work if I can help it.

So I treat my mixing board (at least right where the filler is mixed, the rest looks a little funky) like any other tool, I keep them clean, and with precise edges to mixing as well as spreading is easier.

The video shows how I keep the edges of the tools nice.

Brian

 

[grandsport]

Great idea ! I always use a folded up piece of cardboard.

 

[rubadub]

Very nice video:thumbsup:, is there any chance you could get one mixing the filler.

 

[dpvoiceguy]

Very nice video:thumbsup:, is there any chance you could get one mixing the filler.

I'd be interested in that, too. I'm going to be doing that very soon with a door I've got in the works and I asked a while back how one knows when the ratio is "right" for something like Rage Extreme. A video is always super helpful. Thanks for all of the info you provide, Brian.

 

[f14tomcat]

I don't have a video, but when mixing body filler, think about the filler being in the size of a golf ball.
Now put 1 inch length of hardner on top of the filler, and mix well to where there is no streaks left in the filler...all one color, and then spread...
This also depends on the weather, the hotter it is the faster it will harden....so this is just a starting point.....
Hope this helps someone.......

 

[MARTINSR]

I just learned where I had seen this trick with the cardboard, RIGHT HERE at Team Chevelle and BadBob is who told me!!!

Brian

 

[MARTINSR]

I was planning on showing one mixing, I'll try and do it today. However, we are short about five people at work! I have been working my ars off!!!

Brian

 

[rubadub]

I was planning on showing one mixing, I'll try and do it today. However, we are short about five people at work! I have been working my ars off!!!

Brian

Don't beat yourself up to bad, we can wait.

 

[rubadub]

I don't have a video, but when mixing body filler, think about the filler being in the size of a golf ball.
Now put 1 inch length of hardner on top of the filler, and mix well to where there is no streaks left in the filler...all one color, and then spread...
This also depends on the weather, the hotter it is the faster it will harden....so this is just a starting point.....
Hope this helps someone.......

This sounds good Ricky, but that inch depends on how
slow or fast you move the tube.

Some body needs to make a minature ice cream dipper or a disposable injector.

Or a mixing board with a couple of pockets built in over on the outside edge that you could fill it level then take your finger and slide it out, like an elongated or dished out pocket that can be cleaned out with one swipe of your finger.

Maybe three or four different sized pockets.

We'll see what Brian does, then we'll improve on it and not tell him.:yes:

 

[f14tomcat]

It would still be trial and error, this is not rocket science,....LOL
Just try a little hardner and mix...
The 1 inch per golf ball size is just a starting point....
The weather has a lot to do with it.....

It would be nice if they had a ready mix system kinda like the 2 tubes in one when mixing epoxy glue....that would be a good deal.......Hummmmm

 

[MARTINSR]

There is actually a two componant mixing gun for filler that is soon to be released!

No thinking, just pull the trigger and it will dispense the product all ready mixed!

Brian

 

[rubadub]

It would still be trial and error, this is not rocket science,....LOL
Just try a little hardner and mix...
The 1 inch per golf ball size is just a starting point....
The weather has a lot to do with it.....

It would be nice if they had a ready mix system kinda like the 2 tubes in one when mixing epoxy glue....that would be a good deal.......Hummmmm

I hear yeah on its not rocket science, buuuuttttttttt, any place for error that you can eliminate up front is a good thing.

 

[BERGERZ28]

Body filler should NEVER be mixed on cardboard as the cardboard is pourous and absorbs the hardner it should be mixed on a metal sheet like in the video, also no one does it but filler should be mixed on a scale, and whether hot or cold the filler should always be mixed the same ratio other wise it will bite you in the a**, never mix the filler like you are mixing cake batter it makes alot of air pockets and will give you pinholes it should be mixed overlapping on top of each layer. I always and my techs put on a little more than needed better to block down to were you need it then to keep putting more layers and keep cuuting into the plastic you just sanded and finished 2 coats maybe 3 and were done, ready for some spraypoly.