Best pad for PO85RD??
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Rsurfer
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I like LC black for jeweling with 85RD, but some are recommending using HT crimson.
Rsurfer
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Orange and white. What grit are you finishing with? Check out the Surbuff pads with 105.
Rsurfer
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Only if you want to re-paint your car.
Rsurfer
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Check out ebay or amazon for a pc.
Rsurfer
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Good luck Sir:xyxthumbs:
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Remember, AG has free upgrade to 2 day shipping... if you order on Monday you'll have them by Wednesday.
SpoiledMan
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Going to depend on paint hardness but I usually have succes on speed 4 with a Meguiars yellow 8006. No finishing pad has worked for me.
Mike Phillips
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That's called grinding and Ron is right, if you attempt to sand auto paint with a rotary buffer you will sand all the paint off down to bare metal or mess up the paint so badly that you'll have to repaint.
Hand sand or machine sand, I have articles on both in my article list... if it were me I would machine sand as much of the paint as possible, your sanding marks will be more uniform and buff out easier. IF you hand sand, try to get some Nikken Finishing Papers, these use Unigrit Technology and it will help you to avoid tracers and the sanding marks will buff out faster.
What are you sanding?
Wendell Jarvis
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Surbuff pads are excellent, but personally I would only recommend them is your paint condition is in bad shape, because they are very aggressive.
93fox
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That's called grinding and Ron is right, if you attempt to sand auto paint with a rotary buffer you will sand all the paint off down to bare metal or mess up the paint so badly that you'll have to repaint.
Hand sand or machine sand, I have articles on both in my article list... if it were me I would machine sand as much of the paint as possible, your sanding marks will be more uniform and buff out easier. IF you hand sand, try to get some Nikken Finishing Papers, these use Unigrit Technology and it will help you to avoid tracers and the sanding marks will buff out faster.
What are you sanding?
Its a car i recently painted at school, the thing is that where i am going to be buffing this there is no compressor to use my DA. If there was i would defenetly use that but since i have no other option, i will be doing it all by hand! Im going to remove all the orange peel, what grit do you recommend me to start with?
Mike Phillips
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Cool! :xyxthumbs:
If you can get a DA Polisher you can use it with your Trizact discs.
This article is on dampsanding using Meguiar's Unigrit Discs but all the information would work well with the 3M Trizact discs.
Some guys sand dry, I prefer wet otherwise you need to wear a dust mask so you don't breathe in paint particulates.
Here's everything I have on sanding at this time, first article is on dampsanding. Get a cup of coffee or a cold drink as it's pretty long and thorough article. Also check out the hand sanding article below it a ways.
Wet-Sanding
Damp-Sanding Tools, Tips and Techniques by Mike Phillips <-- This one...
Meguiar's 6" Unigrit Sanding and Finishing Discs
Wet-sanding, Color-sanding & Damp-sanding
The difference between 3M's Hookit and Hookit II Hook-N-Loop Interface Systems
List of Sanding Discs at Autogeek.net
The Rule of Thumb
If it has paint... it gets polished...
RIDS and Feathersanding - A Highly Specialized Technique by Mike Phillips
Wet-sanding - Fresh Paint vs Factory Paint
Basic Hand Sanding Techniques <-- This one...
Removing Orange Peel & Sanding Marks with the Griot's ROP and the Wolfgang Twins
How long will a half sheet of wet/dry sandpaper last before it stops cutting and you need to replace it?
Fight or Flight Method for Gaging Surface Temperature
Can an air-powered DA Sander be used to polish paint?
#1500 is a good normal safe starting point. Some people start at #800 or #1000, kind of depends upon how much material you sprayed, lower grits are going to remove a lot of material fast.
Nikken Finishing Papers have 100% fill over the entire sheet of paper, as well as Unigrit particle size, point is these papers cut faster and more evenly than most automotive grade papers and this allows you to move up one grit level to get the same efficiency while leaving easier to remove sanding marks.
Meguiars Unigrit Sand Papers 6 Pack Kit - Your Choice!
There's other options for getting Nikken Finishing Papers also towards the bottom of this page
All Meguiar's Products
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