jaguarcult
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- May 23, 2006
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Morning All,
As some of you Goat owners in Texas might know, we're having a large get together in a couple weeks so I need to get my Goat back in shape. I started Saturday using Poly Clay, then it rained and rained yesterday. So today I started again. I also wet sanded some of my botched touch up jobs.
I completed XMT2 on the hood. Of course that required the most work since I wet sanded my botched touchup paint. Next time I'll use my Lanka kit.
XMT2 with Lake Country's CCS pads are easier than pie to use. The little pockets in the pad keep a small amount of polish wet so when you have to really work on an area the pad will keep the surface at the right moisture. The polish is much more gentle than I thought, but that's a good thing. The consistancy is a little unusuall, more like clumpy oatmeal, but once the pad hits the car you can see the emulsion at it's best. I used the XMT pad conditioner which seems to make the initial spread much easier and first pass at 3K easier. XMT2 gives two inidications it's ready to burnish, 1. it goes from opaque to about 50% translucent, then shortly after it will start to dust up slightly. Burnishing at 5 to 6K produced a near complete polish and removed all the sanding marks.
Pinnacle XMT with a PC DA seems to be the way to go. I'll finish the rest of the Goat with XMT2 and start on XMT1 and post more pics.
As some of you Goat owners in Texas might know, we're having a large get together in a couple weeks so I need to get my Goat back in shape. I started Saturday using Poly Clay, then it rained and rained yesterday. So today I started again. I also wet sanded some of my botched touch up jobs.
I completed XMT2 on the hood. Of course that required the most work since I wet sanded my botched touchup paint. Next time I'll use my Lanka kit.
XMT2 with Lake Country's CCS pads are easier than pie to use. The little pockets in the pad keep a small amount of polish wet so when you have to really work on an area the pad will keep the surface at the right moisture. The polish is much more gentle than I thought, but that's a good thing. The consistancy is a little unusuall, more like clumpy oatmeal, but once the pad hits the car you can see the emulsion at it's best. I used the XMT pad conditioner which seems to make the initial spread much easier and first pass at 3K easier. XMT2 gives two inidications it's ready to burnish, 1. it goes from opaque to about 50% translucent, then shortly after it will start to dust up slightly. Burnishing at 5 to 6K produced a near complete polish and removed all the sanding marks.
Pinnacle XMT with a PC DA seems to be the way to go. I'll finish the rest of the Goat with XMT2 and start on XMT1 and post more pics.
