Mike Phillips
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- Dec 5, 2022
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I used speed 1!!! I am absolutely gobsmacked at the correction ability at speed 1! I initially thought I'd just spread the polish on 1 and then bump up to 3, but then thought to myself out of curiosity to just work the polish in at 1 and wipe off. If the swirls were still there bump up to 3, but after the wipedown I was floored, the finish was perfect!
Then I looked at the specs, the 3401 at speed 6 spins at 480rpm, the PE14 at speed 1 spins at 600rpm!
Also, its way quieter, smoother and powerful than any polisher I have ever used, it's ridiculous how easily this thing corrects paint!
Also keep in mind that modern high quality compounds don't require high speed and in fact low speeds work just as well while keeping surface temperatures lower. I cover this in the chapter on rotary buffers in my how-to book, The Complete Guide to a Show Car Shine.
And just to note... you never have to heat the abrasives up to break them down, that's an old wives tale.
Diminishing abrasives bread down from pressure over time. Heat is an unwanted and unnecessary by-product of the process.
We all chasing faster correction through long throws,thinner pads and so forth when the answer all along was PE-14!
I teach this in my 3-day classes and also in a class I teach each year at Mobile Tech Expo. That is to reduce correction time start with a rotary buffer but for guaranteed hologram free results finish with any dual action polishers.
Here's one example of the rotary/dual action approach
Mark's Fast Ferrari with Wolfgang Fuzion
