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Hello everyone,
This weekend I worked on a very nice ‘76 Corvette. It came in for a one-step and deep scratch removal. The customer isn’t the first owner and doesn’t know much about the history of the paintwork. It was repainted at some point with base coat and clear coat.
The paint was in bad shape - the fiberglass body is cracking in numerous places and the paint is bubbling in even more areas. There are many clusters of dense orange peel and more than a couple spots of solvent pop. And, to add insult to injury, the car used to be red and the painters just sprayed the purple base coat right over the red. The underlying color actually shows in a few places.
Since a one-step was in order I decided to try 3D One. The parts that I sanded were compounded, but all painted surfaces received a few passes from 3D One.
I don't have a lot of before photos, but I'll include what I can.
Before I started.
Many areas had deep scratches. After doing a few areas I couldn't spend any more time taking pictures of the sanding job, but I got a few nice before and afters.
3D One Impressions
First thing, a little bit goes a long way. I was surprised how little I had to put on my pad to get a good result. It also cleaned off the pads very nicely. And it actually smells good! I was very pleasantly surprised! The working time was good. I noticed that it stops cutting after a set of around four section passes, maybe a bit less. Maybe it's just me, but I made sure to note that its cut tapers off after working it a bit. This is absolutely not a negative thing and I liked the way it worked with the paint on this Corvette. Does 3D One use diminishing abrasives?
Here's an example of what it did on this aftermarket paint job after four passes on a Flex 3401 with a Hybrid Force orange pad, about ten pounds of pressure and between one and a little less than one inch per second.
Here are the same photos cropped.
Here is the result in the falling daylight.
Products Used
Flex 3401
Griot's DA with their heavy duty three-inch backing plate
Flex PE-80
Griot's G15
3M 3,000-grit three-inch Trizact foamed discs
Meguiar's 1,500- and 2,000-grit finishing papers
Meguiar's soft sanding block
Other sanding blocks to help remove RIDs
3D One
Griot's Fast Correcting Cream
McKee's High Performance Glass Restorer
Meguiar's three-inch microfiber discs
Griot's three-inch Boss white foam pads
Griot's 5.5 Boss microfiber discs
Flex two- and three-inch green pads
Lake Country Hybrid Force 5.5-inch orange and white pads
McKee's N914
Pinnacle clay
McKee's clay
McKee's High-Def Paint Sealant (the old formula)
Wolfgang tire dressing
This weekend I worked on a very nice ‘76 Corvette. It came in for a one-step and deep scratch removal. The customer isn’t the first owner and doesn’t know much about the history of the paintwork. It was repainted at some point with base coat and clear coat.
The paint was in bad shape - the fiberglass body is cracking in numerous places and the paint is bubbling in even more areas. There are many clusters of dense orange peel and more than a couple spots of solvent pop. And, to add insult to injury, the car used to be red and the painters just sprayed the purple base coat right over the red. The underlying color actually shows in a few places.
Since a one-step was in order I decided to try 3D One. The parts that I sanded were compounded, but all painted surfaces received a few passes from 3D One.
I don't have a lot of before photos, but I'll include what I can.
Before I started.
Many areas had deep scratches. After doing a few areas I couldn't spend any more time taking pictures of the sanding job, but I got a few nice before and afters.
3D One Impressions
First thing, a little bit goes a long way. I was surprised how little I had to put on my pad to get a good result. It also cleaned off the pads very nicely. And it actually smells good! I was very pleasantly surprised! The working time was good. I noticed that it stops cutting after a set of around four section passes, maybe a bit less. Maybe it's just me, but I made sure to note that its cut tapers off after working it a bit. This is absolutely not a negative thing and I liked the way it worked with the paint on this Corvette. Does 3D One use diminishing abrasives?
Here's an example of what it did on this aftermarket paint job after four passes on a Flex 3401 with a Hybrid Force orange pad, about ten pounds of pressure and between one and a little less than one inch per second.
Here are the same photos cropped.
Here is the result in the falling daylight.
Products Used
Flex 3401
Griot's DA with their heavy duty three-inch backing plate
Flex PE-80
Griot's G15
3M 3,000-grit three-inch Trizact foamed discs
Meguiar's 1,500- and 2,000-grit finishing papers
Meguiar's soft sanding block
Other sanding blocks to help remove RIDs
3D One
Griot's Fast Correcting Cream
McKee's High Performance Glass Restorer
Meguiar's three-inch microfiber discs
Griot's three-inch Boss white foam pads
Griot's 5.5 Boss microfiber discs
Flex two- and three-inch green pads
Lake Country Hybrid Force 5.5-inch orange and white pads
McKee's N914
Pinnacle clay
McKee's clay
McKee's High-Def Paint Sealant (the old formula)
Wolfgang tire dressing
