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A sponge saturated with clean gasoline will 

 be handy in the work. 



For your priming coat, mix the white 

 lead with turpentine, adding a little oil and 

 Japan drier. Add enough of the coach 

 black to color it a dark gray. Apply this 

 evenly to the surface, dusting it off first, 

 just before painting. 



When this coat is thoroughly dry, fill up 

 the cracks and depressions with the crack 

 filler, or putty, allowing the filler to project 

 a trifle above the surface, as this permits 

 the filling to be cut down level with the 

 painted surface. Now smooth the surface 

 all over carefully with No. oo sandpaper. 

 Some painters use the crack-filler mentioned 

 as another coat painted all over the surface. 

 Then it is smoothed with sandpaper. This 

 is easily accomplished because of its hard 

 drying qualities. 



Black Color Coat 



Mix up some of the 

 flat-black with turpen- 

 tine, adding a little oil to 

 act as a binder. Do not 

 add any Japan drier. 

 Apply a smooth, 

 even coat of 



this, and let it 3TAHI 



dry. 



After this, lay on a coat of black 

 color and rubbing varnish mixed. 

 Use the ready mixed article, rather 

 than your own mixture of black 

 coach color, rubbing varnish and 

 a little turpentine. When the 

 color and varnish coat is dry, rub 

 it down even with pumice stone 

 and felt pad. Do not use sand- 

 paper, as the succeeding rubbings 

 are to be done with the pumice 

 stone. 



Wet the felt pad, dip it in the 

 pumice and shake off the surplus 

 powder; then go over the work 

 with an even circular motion on the large 

 spaces. Rub in straight lines along the 

 edges of the doors, panels and on the mold- 

 ing. When the surface is cut down evenly, 

 wash off the pumice, dry, and apply a coat 

 of clear rubbing varnish. Let this dry and 

 then rub down with pumice stone as before. 

 Wash the surface thoroughly and when dry, 

 put on the striping and letters. A carmine, 

 or dark red stripe looks well on a black sur- 

 face. The object of all this rubbing down 

 is to secure a perfectly even surface before 

 applying coat of finishing varnish. 



Methods of 

 holdingbrush 

 for striping 



During the progress of the work you 

 may notice that the surface is slightly 

 unlevel here and there, but as coat after 

 coat is applied and rubbed down, these 

 places will gradually come up to the level, 

 and when the finishing varnish is applied 

 the surface will be smooth and glistening; 

 that is, if the work has been done carefully 

 and plenty of time given each coat to dry 

 before resuming the work on it. 



Sandpapering 



Sandpapering must not be attempted if 

 the surface is not thoroughly dry. The 

 loosened material should fly off like dust 

 during the operation. If it clings to the 

 sandpaper in spots and cakes, the surface 

 has not dried out. Give it a day or more 

 to dry out before going at it again. The 

 same advice holds good for the rubbing 

 down with the 

 pumice. No 

 dust will fly, 

 as the pad must 

 be kept wet, but 

 the su r f ace 

 should be just as 

 hard as for sand- 

 papering. Dur- 



FIN.SH mg the pum j c . 



ing, wash off the surface with a wet 

 sponge to remove the abraded ma- 

 terial, as well as to see how the 

 work is proceeding. 



Striping adds a distinctive ap- 

 pearance to any car, but its applica- 

 tion requires the skill, the accurate 

 eye and steady hand of the expert. 

 Poor striping is an irritant to the 

 eye. The proper and only stripe 

 on a pleasure car is a thin, hair-line 

 Yl or z /i in. away from the edges 

 or moldings of doors and panels. 

 This stripe should follow the lines 

 of the doors and panels. Some- 

 times the curves of the mudguards, 

 and those of the hood are also striped in 

 the same way. All automobile wheels are 

 not striped alike. Examine the striping 

 on various wheels and follow the style that 

 pleases you best. Actually, the stripe is a 

 contour line — sectional or continuous. 



To stripe, take a clean, flat piece of glass 

 or tin, place a small quantity of the tube 

 color upon it and thin to working consis- 

 tency with a little turpentine. Then take 

 the striper and draw it through the color 

 to load it. Draw it toward you several 

 times an the clean surface of the glass or tin, 



