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By the way PC, there is no doubt you know your stuff,the Japan and the good 3m papers are fine....Mirka ought to be run out of business. their paper is crap.It cuts once or twice then its just nothing more than smudge paper.I got boxes of the stuff cause I got a "good" deal on it from SmartShoppers.Penny wise pound foolish. There production 36 grit dulls so fast that sometimes if I am out of new 3M,I put an old 3M sheet on.
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Paint buffing
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dklawson
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I won't pretend that I can add a lot to this thread as I have only painted two LBCs. I deffer to others on the selection of grit.
I would like to offer two suggestions for DIY buffing. These are two items I don't remember being mentioned above. While hand buffing works, it is tedious and the powerful buffers are risky and expensive. I have had very good results using wool bonnets on variable speed, electric, orbital sanders. I have done this using both 3M Perfect-It and Finesse-It compounds. While the best results I had came from Perfect-It compound followed by Perfect-It glaze, the Finesse-It worked as a one-step process and quickly produced a high-quality shine. I'm not talking about a finish like Box-o-Rocks shows in his photos... but a very good uniformly glossy finish, probably better than our cars had when new.
I would like to offer two suggestions for DIY buffing. These are two items I don't remember being mentioned above. While hand buffing works, it is tedious and the powerful buffers are risky and expensive. I have had very good results using wool bonnets on variable speed, electric, orbital sanders. I have done this using both 3M Perfect-It and Finesse-It compounds. While the best results I had came from Perfect-It compound followed by Perfect-It glaze, the Finesse-It worked as a one-step process and quickly produced a high-quality shine. I'm not talking about a finish like Box-o-Rocks shows in his photos... but a very good uniformly glossy finish, probably better than our cars had when new.
PC
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I wasn't suggesting he start with 2500. I was saying that since he already used 1500 and couldn't get the gloss back it was time to step it finer.BOXoROCKS said:
I don't know what the trouble was when you tried the Mirka paper. I can only guess that somebody supplied you with the wrong paper for the job at hand.
Mirka's paint finishing abrasives are superb.
PC.
Scott_Hower
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BOXoROCKS said:
Beautiful work. Congratulations!
(mental note to file BoxORocks in the "paint expert" category).