How To Mix Body Filler
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- How To Mix Body Filler
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When new to auto body, there are some procedures that are not exactly clear. Many cream body fillers and hardeners instruct you to apply 4 to 5 drops of hardener to a golf ball size of body filler. Well this is insane as the cream hardener doesn’t come out in drops plus it wouldn’t be enough anyway. See how a professional mixes body filler and understand the concept of how temps and weather can effect it.
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It would be nice if the cans or bottles of body fillers came with pictures or better instructions but they don’t. Temperatures and weather can effect body fillers excessively. On extremely hot summer days, especially dry days, you would use very little hardener in your mix as body filler will cure within 2 minutes even being mixed on the light side.
If the weather is really cold and moist, you may have to mix more hardener than you would think it should have just to get it to harden within 5 minutes.
It is really better to get you mix a little on the hot side, meaning a little too much hardener than too much on the light side. If you do not put enough hardener in your mix and then go apply it, it may never cure up enough to even sand it, you definitely won’t be able to paint over it. On the same note, if you mix way too much hardener in your filler mix, there is a bleach in the hardener and this can come back in your paint jobs later.
The trick is to add just enough hardener where it will harden within about 3 to 5 minutes and become completely sandable in about 15 to 20 minutes. The best practice is to wait at least 30 minutes before sanding and working your fillers after applying them.
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It's nice having review videos like this, for those of us who haven't mixed this stuff in a while.
Thank you very much!
Thanks for simplifying the mixture ratio, you are a pro, a teacher, a father and indeed a professional.
Excellent video, now I know how the Pro's do it.
Thank you! It is a nice tutorial! I use body filler once in a few years and it is nice to refresh my memory before starting a new car project as I plan to do today. Blessings!
Great vid , thanx
We're from Gibson Tech, thank you for the informative video.
Thanks for posting the video It really helped me out a lot
I love this video because it is easy to follow, this will be my first time, thanks.
Glad I could help, best of luck on your projects
Wonderful thanks
On god rodshop best video I’ve ever watched 😮
Great video!
best video n information i have seing...thank you
Thank you very much
Thank you!
Glad I could help
Looks like the amount of hardener corresponds to a line drawn between 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock on the circle of filler. Thanks for the demo!
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Nice
Thanks
Thanks for the review. Any tips on how to prevent the body filler from cracking after being installed?
If it’s cracking it because you are putting to much hardner
I need a link to cream hardener production video please
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We’re from Gibson tech and this video was very helpful❤️
is the rule of thumb 1/2" high blob of bondo then across the blob.
It is best to go by the video, there is no real rule of thumb. The cans tell you to put two drops which makes no sense. Just a thin line about a quarter way down of a circle of body filler. You can adjust how heavy of a line based on temperature you are working in.
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why is some hardener red and some blue?
In the past, the only difference between red blue and white, was just the coloring. Usually this was just a difference in manufacturers. Now they are making the colors to represent speed of hardening. I have not actually tried the color for speed hardeners yet. I usually stick with the blue. I do know this, stay away from Bondo brand filler. They advertise they are the best, but when you go to most body shops, they use Evercoat. Bondo brand packs up the sandpaper and I have seen where later on it shrinks and causes problems. Use what the pros use, Evercoat.
@@RodsshopOrg So the blue stuff works for bondo then.. I have been throwing them in the corner..THANKS! And stay away from bondo ok thanks
@@tuffy16 Blue works in all body fillers, the same as all the other colors. I just do not use Bondo Brand filler made by 3M because it sucks compared to the others. I just prefer blue just because I am used to the mixed color and knowing when I have just the right amount. But there really isn't any difference in the other colors other than now they are making different colors for different speed in sure times. But it should tell you that on the tubes if you have one of those.
@@RodsshopOrg Thank you !
Ahhhhh you’re not supposed to stir ittt
Been doing it just like this video for over 40 years, never, not one time has it had issues. So it works and if you know it all, then why are you watching this video? You can stir it as long as you are not whipping it.
So USE A STICK GUYSB😂
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This sucks I just purchased this got in to my project and mixed all my body filler wrong
How do you know you mixed the filler wrong. Did it harden and were you able to sand it?
The only two bad situations are, if you didn't get enough hardener in it and it never fully cured. Or if you mix too much hardener in it, the bleach that is in the hardener can cause spots or stain in your paint job down the road.
Tell me why you feel it is wrong?
NEVER stir bondo always fold.
Got almost 50 years of doing this way that says different. My question is, if you think you already know all about it, why are you watching the video. Just so you can criticize me? You can stir body filer and if you noticed, I pulled the two parts together at first. You just can't stir fast and whip it to cause air bubbles. Don't be getting on here leaving comments that is going to confuse others. My way has worked for almost 50 years, never had an issue. I get comments like this from people that have no real experience, that have read the back of a Bondo brand can or looked on the internet in those idiot forums. Go to a real body shop that does it on a day to day production basis and you will see reality.
Thank you for demonstrating EVC products but please do not use cardboard to mix filler on. Cardboard is very porous and will change the chemistry of the product by absorbing the resin so the filler may not perform as well as it should.
Sorry to bust your bubble but please do not confuse people by telling them that nonsense. I have been doing this for close to 50 years, DOESN't HURT IT ALL. GO to real body shops that do this on a production level and they use cardboard. When you get the experience I have and make you own videos, then you opinion might count. But when people like you pop on here and make comments like that, makes me mad. Why? Well if you already know so much about mixing body filler, then why are you watching this video. I don't go watch videos on stuff I already know. Cardboard is perfectly fine to use, has been since body fillers came out. Only someone that reads the internet would make a comment like that. Real life, cardboard is highly used.
@@RodsshopOrg he is right,cardboard absorbes a small part of the resin which does change the mix…resin is what makes it stick otherwise your just using puddy…...I know how to do a lot of things but still always look at videos to see if theirs a better way…plastic Dixie plates work….the whole I’ve been doing this for years argument is old and tired…and is simple to dismiss….you’ve been doing it wrong for years…what ever you want to do with your car but if I’m spending 1,000$ on paint and the time and effort to do the job…why would you not do it 100% correctly….but I’m not painting a car that will be sold in the next 5-10 years my car will be passed on to my kids
Better tell the tens of thousands of other body shops in the world then. You seem to be the only one that knows more than we do. What I can't understand, if you know more than everyone else about it, why in the hell are you watching videos on how to mix body fillers. Either create your own or d quit this hater criticizing stuff!!!!!
If you are at home and you got your little can of Bondo brand body filler that the can says all over the back of it not to use cardboard and you are working on your little one time project, you go buy yourself 25 to 50 sheets and pallet for mixing body filler. But when you are running hundreds of cars in and out of a shop and have 10 project cars going at once, you might wake up and realize, the little pallet and sheets just are not practical. Also, BONDO SUCKSSSSS. It is the worst body filler on the planet and all their information is retarded. I have almost 50 years of mixing body filler on cardboard. NEVER, EVER EVER NEVER, EVER have I had the filler fail, to come back on me, to shrink, pin-hole or any of the crap that people with no real shop experience want to point out issues. When you got the experience that I have, we can argue it. Or better yet, you do a video showing that mixing on cardboard doesn't work.
@@RodsshopOrg Good for you RodsShop. I was thinking the same thing. Why the heck is this guy watching your video if he knows so much. Thanks much for the video.
@@RodsshopOrg Wish I had seen this earlier. Hate to break it to you but I am a manufacture BDM for ITW/Evercoat for the last nine years. We are the largest manufacture in the world of fillers and putty’s.I know what I am talking about when I recommend to NOT use card board to mix on.