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polishing out minor scratches
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Hey PC and all,
Went to work with the Griot RO polisher and Meguiars Fine Cleaner Mirror Glaze # 2 product and the Griot orange buff. Took a lot of the spider web scratches out but looks like if I want to get rid of them completely, will need a Meg product with more cut to it. I have only seen #1 and # 2 but apparently there is a #4 heavy cut cleaner available. Then follow up with a #9 Swirl remover per the Meg package ? I have an older bottle of #9 swirl but it says for rotary buffer so per PC's advice, will not use that. You agree with going to the # 4 PC ?
Nice 74 Jensen Healey PC - how long have you had it ? Had several Jensen's at our Charleston British Car Club "British Car Day" this past October. Was nice to see the progression of DMH's cars.
Regards,
Mike
Went to work with the Griot RO polisher and Meguiars Fine Cleaner Mirror Glaze # 2 product and the Griot orange buff. Took a lot of the spider web scratches out but looks like if I want to get rid of them completely, will need a Meg product with more cut to it. I have only seen #1 and # 2 but apparently there is a #4 heavy cut cleaner available. Then follow up with a #9 Swirl remover per the Meg package ? I have an older bottle of #9 swirl but it says for rotary buffer so per PC's advice, will not use that. You agree with going to the # 4 PC ?
Nice 74 Jensen Healey PC - how long have you had it ? Had several Jensen's at our Charleston British Car Club "British Car Day" this past October. Was nice to see the progression of DMH's cars.
Regards,
Mike
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Meg's #4 is a rotary only product.
It probably wouldn't hurt to use #9 with a DA but from my experience it's usually pointless. It was designed for very fine polishing with a rotary and has hardly any cut at all with a DA.
If you got most of what you want with one round of Fine Cut, you could try a second round. But I'm assuming it was your test spot and you want more effect in one round.
The Scratch 2.0 <span style="font-style: italic">should </span>be stronger than the Fine Cut Cleaner. Different finishes respond differently so that isn't an absolute. But if you haven't tried the ScratchX 2.0 with the orange pad and the techniques from the vids, you should.
The next step up in strength in Meg's consumer line is their Ultimate Compound, which is actually stronger than most products in their professional Mirror Glaze line.
If that doesn't take care of it, it may be time to start thinking about a process with more power than a DA with Griot's foam polishing pad can dish out.
Never sprung for a carfax, but I think I'm the third owner of my JH, second if you don't count the dealer the first owner traded it in to. I brought it home in '84.
pc
It probably wouldn't hurt to use #9 with a DA but from my experience it's usually pointless. It was designed for very fine polishing with a rotary and has hardly any cut at all with a DA.
If you got most of what you want with one round of Fine Cut, you could try a second round. But I'm assuming it was your test spot and you want more effect in one round.
The Scratch 2.0 <span style="font-style: italic">should </span>be stronger than the Fine Cut Cleaner. Different finishes respond differently so that isn't an absolute. But if you haven't tried the ScratchX 2.0 with the orange pad and the techniques from the vids, you should.
The next step up in strength in Meg's consumer line is their Ultimate Compound, which is actually stronger than most products in their professional Mirror Glaze line.
If that doesn't take care of it, it may be time to start thinking about a process with more power than a DA with Griot's foam polishing pad can dish out.
Never sprung for a carfax, but I think I'm the third owner of my JH, second if you don't count the dealer the first owner traded it in to. I brought it home in '84.
pc
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Can Carfax tell who the previous owners and how many there have been?
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Hey All and PC,
An update on getting rid of the spider web scratches - used the Meguiars Ultimate Compound and it did the job very nicely. Easy to work with and I used the orange Griot Garage pad with their machine. So if anyone has spider web type scratches on their LBC, try the above. Thanks again to everyone that weighed in and a big thanks to PC for your advice.
Regards,
Mike
An update on getting rid of the spider web scratches - used the Meguiars Ultimate Compound and it did the job very nicely. Easy to work with and I used the orange Griot Garage pad with their machine. So if anyone has spider web type scratches on their LBC, try the above. Thanks again to everyone that weighed in and a big thanks to PC for your advice.
Regards,
Mike