Well, I'm fighting with the paint. I'm getting buffer trails for some reason. I've changed nothing, so I don't understand what has happened.
I buff, looks fantastic, roll it out into the sun and the buffer trails become stupid obvious. Back inside, another round of buffing, paint looks spectacular, roll it out in the sun and.....buffer trails galore.
So it's obvious I need to be able to see the marks while I work them out. Trying to compound and buff a black car in the sun is a loosing battle. I need more light in the garage.
I've already got the overhead LED lights, so the garage is pretty bright as it is. So I need to put light on the panel as I work it.
I check out retail options along these lines:
But anything worth trying starts at around $75 and it just goes up from there. That's 75 bucks I can better spend somewhere else, so I have a dig around the shop to see what i can come up with.
Some scrap metal, a couple old LED fog lights, an old laptop power brick and a little time with the MIG:
Works great! And cost me nothing but some bits I already had laying around. The lights pivot and tilt and the upright extends so I can shine them down on the car's horizontal surfaces. The bolt you see sticking out is the lock so when you extend the upright piece, you can lock it in place.
With the lights on the car door, the buffer trails are easy to see (what you see in the pic is a reflection, not trails). Now I can work on them while inside and be fairly confident i won't be cursing when I roll it back out into the sun.
So the BC plate at the back of the workbench is from when you spent time there?
