Tricks of the Trade "sanding out a run"

Runs are a fact of life in a body shop. The more experience you have the less of them you will get, but you still get em on occasion. So the questiont is not whether you get em, it's more about when, where and how to get em out.

Most use a wet block and sandpaper technique; but did you know you can actually apply a finishing putty (or metal glaze) right over the run in your clear? and when you wet block the putty it will keep even pressure threw out the sanding process and remove the run entirely without sanding or polishing through the clear.  Provided you have enough clear on the area you are working with (chances are good you do.  the run remember?), its a very effective trick that will save time and money later.