Detailer`s best friend or deadly weapon? I`m beginning to lean towards the latter. Two cars this week and I`ve injured myself with both of them using painter`s tape.
First time was with the white Camry Hybrid I finished on Saturday. I was taping off the weatherstripping on the B-pillar and tore the tape with a bit too much gusto. In a move you could not orchestrate with a supercomputer, my thumbnail went cleanly under my opposing index finger nail and at a speed that felt like no less than the speed of sound. Hurt like an SOB, too and bled profusely until I got a bandage on it.
Cut to today...(pun intended) and I`m taping off the EXACT same area on my dad`s black Acura RL (write-up coming tonight) and the tape rolls up on the weatherstripping and turns into a knife blade. I ran my index finger (same one injured Saturday) along it for about 3" and got a nice, deep paper cut. I think this hurt more than the nail-under-nail bit.
The moral of the story? Painters tape is far more dangerous than cars. Such is the life of a detailer.
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