Masking Tape Tips - Aluminum Foil
Mark SimpsonDescription
Here’s one of the great masking tape tips. Aluminum foil can be a great tool in the shop. Whether you’re touching up paint on the engine or covering electrical components prior to degreasing an engine, its ability to form tightly around even complex shapes will keep it in place until the job is done.
Sometimes when you're working, even on a completed car, you know, you'll find that you need to paint something or mask something off in order to touch it up in some other areas and it can be a real pain. You know, like if I want to touch up the paint on this air conditioning box, I don't really want to break into my cooling system either because if I pull this hose off, then I'll have to deal with all the antifreeze and everything else. And if I'm in a hurry, you don't need to be, you know, draining the system and taking care of a bunch of other stuff. So, what works really good if you've gotta mask off different areas on your engine or alternators or generators is just to grab some aluminum foil. It forms right to whatever you're working on. And then I can, you know, once I'm satisfied with how this is masked off, I can go in and touch up this area and simply remove the foil when I'm done.
Shinny side down or up??? LOL!!!
Slick idea! Works well when doing fiberglass work with at least polyester resin.
Great idea. Just be sure the battery is disconnected if you're going to be foil-wrapping Alternators/Generators/anything electrical.