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[swarfrat]

Okay, looking at these pics I guess I'm not done filling, although to the naked eye & hand it looks like its ready for clear coat. Maybe it is - I dunno. But today I found two itty bitty metal flakes. They're rather hard to photograph, but they're visible to the naked eye. I didn't use steel wool though - must've been a contaminant from sandpaper.

But they appear to be all the way at the freaking bottom.  :tard:

How do I recover this one? If I sand down in a very localized area, can I come back in and fill without the spot being visible? I've left these as attachments without inlining them because they're a bit bigger due to the nature of the photographs. (And trying to use extension tubes at f/16 really sucks when your off camera flash trigger just died and you don't want to drag out the tripod.)

You can also get an idea for the epoxy fill here.

 

[jay4321]

I'll take a shot in the dark and say:

1) clean with naptha
2) use a can of compressed air

No idea if it will do the trick or not but it seems like a reasonable idea to me, and it's inexpensive and harmless if it doesn't work out.

 

[swarfrat]

I got it without doing too much rework. I'm learning:

Sanding is required, but sanding is like the last step. Razor blade seems to be the Go-To tool for finish work. I scraped down until I was able to get it with a sewing needle. The razor blade is also GREAT for cleaning up bumps and drips. Sanding those too soon just causing the block to dig somewhere else.

 

[swarfrat]

After doing a couple coats scraping with a razor blade I bought a 3.5" scraper blade at Lowes and WOW, so much better. You still need the razor for a few spots, but the wide scraper absolutely rocks.

 

[Alfang]

A good strong magnet MIGHT help too, don't really know.  I do know this, I have used steel wool on a finnish, what a nightmare, never again. that stuff fragments on a microscopic scale and is a Royal Pain in the arse to clean up.

Oh sure it smoothes the finnish down, but is not worth the cleanup afterward. 

Glad to hear you got it with a blade

 

[rapfohl09]

A good strong magnet MIGHT help too, don't really know.  I do know this, I have used steel wool on a finnish, what a nightmare, never again. that stuff fragments on a microscopic scale and is a Royal Pain in the arse to clean up.

Oh sure it smoothes the finnish down, but is not worth the cleanup afterward. 

Glad to hear you got it with a blade

Synthetic wool FTW!

 

[swarfrat]

Just FTR I was using synthetic wool only. I'm not exactly sure how it got in there, but I didn't notice it until I'd gotten two coats on. Fortunately, the Zpoxy process, no matter how many coats you use to fill, you're scraping back almost to bare wood anyway, so I didn't really do any harm. In fact when I made this posting, I was still leaving too much on.