Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-10-08 | Page 21 | Rough Stuff Rubbed to Refinement

ROUGH I STUFF RUBBED TO REFiNEMENT Being the Story of How Howan an Autos Auto's Lustrous Finish Is Painfully Acquired fish is the chief topic of M conversation n among the fish mongers Therefore monotonous monotonous monotonous things things things' must be inter inter- esting The announce announcement n nt that the Russians have taken Mush l I sh from the Turks may may cause the monger to wave his arms and argue but as long longas as it does not seriously seriously seriously seri seri- interfere re with it Is only of ot pasing Interest He will continue continue continue con con- to mong fish AS ls long as his health j I remains unless good good unless of course he heI I finds more for monotony in training crabs to move forward All AU of ot which Is more or less o of a subterfuge to get you to turn your at at- tendon tenton to something that is exceedingly exceeding exceeding- ly monotonous the monotonous the priming drying rubbing drying varnishing drying striping drying and dry of Pack Packard rd motor car bodies This story Is almost as dry dry In In parts parts parts-as as that one bo t the Scotchman and the Irishman who went into a a. shop to have a wee nip when the Irishman h had d no money The body has been paneled with aluminum and the aluminum has been sandblasted until it isn't slick sUck and shiny any more but is rough enough so that paint and varnish will adhere to it A man wearing a gas mask and equipped with an air gun seizes the body and shoves it on a low truck In front of a n. batte battery of ot electric fans The fans carry away t the e elusive spray and thus protect the health of 01 the painter After he has to toyed with the work of art and ash and aluminum for about f four ur minutes it has changed color for for- ever It has had the priming prim ng coat Then it dries for lor two days Then it It is given the first coat of rough stuff Rough stuff stutt Is not a brawl but a 0 paint shop colloquialism for fur the sort of ot paint used In the pre pre- This coat also Is sprayed on Then it dries for a day t Then it is puttied Then the second and amI the third and the fourth coats of rough stuff are put on on-by on by brush and hand drying one day between operations Comes now Jiow Nagel the engineer r who who- devotes his time to s seeing ing that the whole body department runs smoothly To o hear him tell about it In the technical paint language one would think that all of oft t this rough stuff stutt and drying were merely merely merely mere mere- ly a waste of ot time because the next operation is called rubbing out the rough stuff And It certainly amounts to that The rubbers take handfuls handfuls- of pumice stone and buckets of water and they scrub and rub away like a Dutch Cleanser trademark until the body hasa has has' hasa a perfect surface and is ready for the color At the end of the rubbing operation operation operation opera opera- tion the body Is a dull brown It Is inspected for surfaces next nett and if the rubbers have missed any rough spots back it goes goes goes' for more rubbing Then It Is metal primed Then It dries for a day Then it Is given the first color coat Then rhen it dries for tor a day Then It g gets ts a color varnish coat Then it dries for a day Then It gets another color varnish coat Then it dries for fora a day Then it is rubbed again for surfaces This doesn't go on Interminably Only nineteen days are required for the painting operations on a single body body body- open body th that t is Of Ot course on the bodies more time is required Then it goes to rubbing varnish Then it dries for one day before going goi go go- go- go i ing g to the t trim hn shop ut being In th the trim shop for a day it gets an opportunity opportunity to do more dr drying T Then TJien en it jt goes to the final rub All AU of ot the rubbing ribbing is done with pumice stone and water The rubber also has hasa a strip of rubber the English language language language lan lan- guage is too elastic In some cases with which he Jie dries the surface of ot the body as he goes over It t. t examining every inch to make sure that it is perfectly smooth and up to standards Then It is striped The stripers are the artists of the paint shop and they work with amazing rapidity ana sureness Then to finish varnish Then Tien to the dark room where room where It begins be- be gins gin a l long ng career of drying All of this time has covered nineteen days When it erges from the dark room it is thoroughly done painted puttied varnished varnished varnished var var- rubbed finished striped decorated decorated decorated deco deco- rated with mineral pigments and compositions compositions compositions com com- positions to s such ch an extent that Packard Packard Packard Pack Pack- i ard painting is proclaimed to approach perfection The dark room is dark because flies and other winged or crawling Insects take no chances in a dark adark place There is only one dark room and arid that is after the final varnish If there be Insects or dust that have got stuck to the paint in in the earlier operations the pumice stone rubbing has taken care of them The dark room also is dust proof It sounds monotonous looks monotonous monotonous monotonous smells monotonous and ana andis Is in fact extremely tiresome but the results are worth the monotony The pain on the bodies is elastic If It the metal underneath underneath underneath under under- neath should contract or expand expand expand-as as metal often does does no no cracking or wrinkling mars the glossy surface The lustre lasts Packard Packard Magazine