{"id":550,"date":"2006-01-08T17:38:35","date_gmt":"2006-01-08T21:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seanpallas.com\/?p=550"},"modified":"2019-09-25T17:38:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T23:38:19","slug":"smoothing-the-bondo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"Smoothing the Bondo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_551\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/markvikit281.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-551\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-551\" title=\"markvikit28\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/markvikit281.jpg?resize=300%2C225&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sanding down the Bondo\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/markvikit281.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/markvikit281.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sanding down the Bondo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I let the kit sit for a few days to let the adhesive really dry (also, because I was too busy to get to it). I then mixed up some Bondo automotive filler and applied it to all the seams and screw heads. Be careful not to over-do it, as the Bondo takes quite a deal of sanding to remove, and any unnecessary material will be a pain to sand down. I let the Bondo cure over night. Afterwards, I gave the Bondo a good sanding with 150 grit paper. This removed any &#8220;Bondo-burrs&#8221; . I then worked my way up from 200 to 450 grit paper, which helped blend the Bondo in with the rest of the tricorder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I let the kit sit for a few days to let the adhesive really dry (also, because I was too busy to get to it). I then mixed up some Bondo automotive filler and applied it to all the seams and screw heads. Be careful not to over-do it, as the Bondo takes quite a deal of sanding to remove, and any unnecessary material will be a pain to sand down. I let the Bondo cure over night. Afterwards, I gave the Bondo a good sanding with 150 grit paper. This removed any &#8220;Bondo-burrs&#8221; . I then worked my way&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mark-vi-tricorder","category-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/seanpallas.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/markvikit281.jpg?fit=640%2C480&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p930oe-8S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seanpallas.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}