Automotive Spot Filler Putty

[Frankiebe]

Hello All

Anyone have experience with 3M Acryl Blue Spot Putty. I usually use a the plain jane red spot putty. Some one suggested using the blue putty, its a bit more expensive but it may be worth it. Let me know what you like to use for spot filling small imperfections in your body work and describe your results.

Thanks any help would be great!

Frank B.

[Fuel Coupe]

Hello All

Anyone have experience with 3M Acryl Blue Spot Putty. I usually use a the plain jane red spot putty. Some one suggested using the blue putty, its a bit more expensive but it may be worth it. Let me know what you like to use for spot filling small imperfections in your body work and describe your results.

Thanks any help would be great!

Frank B.

Ive never seen the blue spot putty your talking about but I can tell you this, I FREAKING HATE THE RED PUTTY. I hate how it seperates in the tube and I cant for the life of me figure out how to keep it from seperating in the tube.

I'm willing to try anything else beside that stuff....

[David G.]

Ive never seen the blue spot putty your talking about but I can tell you this, I FREAKING HATE THE RED PUTTY. I hate how it seperates in the tube and I cant for the life of me figure out how to keep it from seperating in the tube.

I'm willing to try anything else beside that stuff....

I store mine upside down, kind of packed in among other things in a drawer resting on its lid. This causes the lighter oily stuff to rise to the top (bottom) of the tube where it's out of the way. I do this with the Green Squadron Putty as well.

[Frankiebe]

Ive never seen the blue spot putty your talking about but I can tell you this, I FREAKING HATE THE RED PUTTY. I hate how it seperates in the tube and I cant for the life of me figure out how to keep it from seperating in the tube.

I'm willing to try anything else beside that stuff....

My experience with the Red Putty, yes it does separate over time. If you keep changing the position of the tube every so often it usually keeps it sort of mixed up. What I like to do is squirt some into a 3/4 oz jar and keep capped off when not in use and if its starts to get thick I add a few drops of Lacquer Thinner to thin it out a little. If you forget about and it dries out to almost hard, just throw it out, it can't be saved with thinner. I tried to save some one time and it never spread out on the surface properly.

As far as the 3M Blue Putty you can get it at any Automotive Paint store or Carquest.

The Blue Putty has a very smooth consistency and sand very easy after its thoroughly dry. I let it dry over night and rough sand with 320 grit. The blue putty has some different ingredients which includes clay and talc. The Red putty I use just has Talc.

Either of the putties I use only very thin skim coats, just to fill minor imperfections.