Solving My Truck Paint Problem
Published September 11, 2024 · 58s · 151,235 views
About This Video
Fifty-eight seconds. The 1987 Toyota Land Cruiser has a scratch from Van's own negligence: a bike dragged on the road. Super glue mixed with baking soda fills the crater, sanded smooth, painted over. Not a repaint but a repair, honoring the truck's accumulated surface rather than erasing it. Patina is biography. You do not erase biography.
Transcript
this spirited man received a text from his stepmom which inadvertently contained the solution to a problem he'd
been trying to solve the trick was in this video the trick to fix a scratch that paint alone cannot fill well let's
see if this works the scratch is a result of negligence on the spirited man's part bike drags on road forcing
brake lever deep into the hatchback breake lever digs out paint little crater that paint alone cannot fill
hence the trick and the trick is to mix super glue with baking
soda here goes yeah he could just use Bondo but he ain't got no Bondo hardens instantly rock [Music] hard good enough
Products & Tools Mentioned
- Bondo mentions — body filler considered but not used
- super glue + baking soda recommends — repair technique used instead of Bondo