jahman
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- Apr 9, 2007
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In the past week I have buffed a large number of older, less cared for cars from friends and family to get as much practice as possible. I'm using a PC 7424XP and a Flex LK603VE rotary buffer that I bought used along with some wool pads. Needless to say I'm in love with the flex buffer. It takes one hour to buff a car that would take several hours with the PC, and the results I'm getting are getting are simply amazing.
Reading this forum you'd get the sense that for someone new to using buffers like myself shouldn't even think about touching a rotary buffer. But I don't really understand why everyone is so afraid of them. Armed with the knowledge that you need to be careful, what to avoid, and some common sense you're really not going to hurt anything.
Getting to the point of this thread (finally)...I came across this thread...
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum...irls-08-infiniti-g37s-self-healing-paint.html
...and now I'm a bit paranoid that in the future I might do this to someone's car, even though I've had no problems thus far.
I've seen Rotary buffer swirls, holograms, buffer trails mentioned and pictured several times on this forum. But mainly the cause for this is only explained as "bad technique" and that the operator needs to be skilled to use a rotary buffer.
My question is that even though I'm not getting these holograms or swirls (yet) how can I avoid it? What exactly is the bad technique that is causing the disaster in those pictures?
Reading this forum you'd get the sense that for someone new to using buffers like myself shouldn't even think about touching a rotary buffer. But I don't really understand why everyone is so afraid of them. Armed with the knowledge that you need to be careful, what to avoid, and some common sense you're really not going to hurt anything.
Getting to the point of this thread (finally)...I came across this thread...
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum...irls-08-infiniti-g37s-self-healing-paint.html
...and now I'm a bit paranoid that in the future I might do this to someone's car, even though I've had no problems thus far.
I've seen Rotary buffer swirls, holograms, buffer trails mentioned and pictured several times on this forum. But mainly the cause for this is only explained as "bad technique" and that the operator needs to be skilled to use a rotary buffer.
My question is that even though I'm not getting these holograms or swirls (yet) how can I avoid it? What exactly is the bad technique that is causing the disaster in those pictures?