Power Gloss to Optimum Hyper Spray Polish?

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Is the gap between Power Gloss and Optimum Hyper Spray polish very high? My trusty PC has died after 7 years service and so I have bought a rotary. I spent a few hours experimenting with the rotary, 3M pads and the Hyper spray but made no impact on the swirls.

The car is an Alfa 156 (circa 1994) which has very hard paint but but the only other polish I still have is an old (3-4 years old) bottle of Power Gloss, so my question is really two fold, do I try the Power Gloss or could the lack of swirl removal be down to my lack of technique and so I should keep working the Hyper Polish. Or do I save up and buy another stronger polish/compound?
 
IME Menz Power Gloss both has the cut to remove the worst of swirls and finishes down nice enough to be cleaned up with a light polish. So I think you should be fine, I don't have any exp. with Hyper Spray Polish but I'm sure it can take care of any light marring left by Power Gloss. A test spot will tell for sure.

Be sure to report your findings! :xyxthumbs:
 
Thanks for the quick responses, I hope to get a paint thickness gauge shortly so once I know how good the paint is I will try out the Power Gloss and report back :xyxthumbs:
 
Lowejackson said:
Thanks for the quick responses, I hope to get a paint thickness gauge shortly so once I know how good the paint is I will try out the Power Gloss and report back :xyxthumbs:
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For the time being you could just go to a local professional detail shop and ask them to take a couple readings for you. If they do it for free, be sure to tip. :xyxthumbs:
 
Lowejackson said:
Is the gap between Power Gloss and Optimum Hyper Spray polish very high? My trusty PC has died after 7 years service and so I have bought a rotary. I spent a few hours experimenting with the rotary, 3M pads and the Hyper spray but made no impact on the swirls.

The car is an Alfa 156 (circa 1994) which has very hard paint but but the only other polish I still have is an old (3-4 years old) bottle of Power Gloss, so my question is really two fold, do I try the Power Gloss or could the lack of swirl removal be down to my lack of technique and so I should keep working the Hyper Polish. Or do I save up and buy another stronger polish/compound?
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You are comparing apples to oranges. PG is a compound and OHSP is a polish. Optimum spray compound would be a closer comparisome.:xyxthumbs:
 
The paint gauge arrived and immediately proved very helpful. The front half of the car has been resprayed whereas the original paint (at the rear) is very thin (less than 100 uM). Therefore I am very restricted with using any serious polish at the back of the car but have a lot of paint thickness (400+ uM) at the front.

The problem seems to be I am unable to get a high gloss on the resprayed panels despite spending hours on each panel with the Hyper Polish with various pads. The swirls were easy to remove but the paint still looks slightly dull.

Any advice or tips
 
Holy Moly! Good too see your name again. What a mind bender.
 
Lowejackson said:
The paint gauge arrived and immediately proved very helpful. The front half of the car has been resprayed whereas the original paint (at the rear) is very thin (less than 100 uM). Therefore I am very restricted with using any serious polish at the back of the car but have a lot of paint thickness (400+ uM) at the front.

The problem seems to be I am unable to get a high gloss on the resprayed panels despite spending hours on each panel with the Hyper Polish with various pads. The swirls were easy to remove but the paint still looks slightly dull.

Any advice or tips
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You might want to wet sand the resprayed panels. 400+ microns is a lot of paint so you would be safe in wet sanding, compounding and polishing.
 
Rsurfer said:
You might want to wet sand the resprayed panels. 400+ microns is a lot of paint so you would be safe in wet sanding, compounding and polishing.
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Thanks, I will make this a long term goal. I am not brave enough yet to start wet sanding and with only several hours rotary expereince, I think this may not be sufficient

Mindflux said:
Holy Moly! Good too see your name again. What a mind bender.
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It is great to see your name again, I am frankly amazed that you and Mike Phillips could remember me from many years ago. I must apologise to Mike as I did not respond to his welcome message and remembering my name. Sorry Mike, I was so shocked that I simply did not know what to say.
 
Lowejackson said:
It is great to see your name again, I am frankly amazed that you and Mike Phillips could remember me from many years ago. I must apologise to Mike as I did not respond to his welcome message and remembering my name. Sorry Mike, I was so shocked that I simply did not know what to say.
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I remember. ;) Bret got all of us oldie moldies from Autopia to pitch in and got you that Porter Cable that you just had die on you (if I'm not mistaken). :)

:props:
 
Mindflux said:
I remember. ;) Bret got all of us oldie moldies from Autopia to pitch in and got you that Porter Cable that you just had die on you (if I'm not mistaken). :)

:props:
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It was a whole bunch of products as a wedding present :xyxthumbs:
 
A4 1.8tqm said:
IME Menz Power Gloss both has the cut to remove the worst of swirls and finishes down nice enough to be cleaned up with a light polish. So I think you should be fine, I don't have any exp. with Hyper Spray Polish but I'm sure it can take care of any light marring left by Power Gloss. A test spot will tell for sure.

Be sure to report your findings! :xyxthumbs:
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I agree with this as I've used both. :xyxthumbs:
 
Rsurfer said:
You might want to wet sand the resprayed panels. 400+ microns is a lot of paint so you would be safe in wet sanding, compounding and polishing.
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Yeah, but on a resprayed panel there are more layers of paint, not necessarily "a lot" of clear. Who's to say that the clear on the respray is any thicker than the factory clear? What I'm saying is that the large amount of paint on a respray is (usually) because they have added to the original paint, not because the layers are thicker.
 
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