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Just wanted to challenge the forum's record and say that I have introduced myself! HAH!

Just kidding.... Hey everyone!!!

I just picked up this new hobby by accident. I'm not so familiar with tools and equipment in this business but here are my low grade stuff picked up locally:

-Makita (few years old, ~10A motor) rotary variable speed polisher/sander tool used for my other hobbies.
-7" backing some brand from locally
-Meguiars W4000 100% wool 7"x1.25" pad
-Meguiars W7000 purple 7" foam pad
-Meguiars medium cut polishing compound
-Meguiars fine cut (can't remember) polishing compound

The test was on a 01 Boxster black that I repaired (minor accident) and painted.

Hopefully, I'll get some photo or video soon. Just received my 3D GoPro setup and this could be a test subject.

Painted a few cars over the last 5-6yrs but this one had some over spray in 3-4 areas and had to sand and polish.

The step I took:

-wet 3M 800grits or 1000grits to knock down overspray
-wet 3M 1500grits to flatten things out
-~1500rpm wool w/ medium cut polish to remove 1500

This is where I'm at as the sun came up last Sunday. It looks good so far but the black can be deeper and looks kinda weird w/ strong light reflection, can't really explain it. Foam pad is next and hope that it looks perfect.

That's all!
 
Howdy and welcome to the forums. Where at in Texas are you from?
 
Trey T said:
Just wanted to challenge the forum's record and say that I have introduced myself! HAH!

Just kidding.... Hey everyone!!!
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Welcome to Autogeek Online! :welcome:



I just picked up this new hobby by accident. I'm not so familiar with tools and equipment in this business but here are my low grade stuff picked up locally:

-Makita (few years old, ~10A motor) rotary variable speed polisher/sander tool used for my other hobbies.
-7" backing some brand from locally
-Meguiars W4000 100% wool 7"x1.25" pad
-Meguiars W7000 purple 7" foam pad
-Meguiars medium cut polishing compound
-Meguiars fine cut (can't remember) polishing compound

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The above is some pretty old school stuff, worked great in it's day, better than the competition at that time but since then some amazing new products have hit the market.



Trey T said:
The test was on a 01 Boxster black that I repaired (minor accident) and painted.

Hopefully, I'll get some photo or video soon. Just received my 3D GoPro setup and this could be a test subject.

Painted a few cars over the last 5-6yrs but this one had some over spray in 3-4 areas and had to sand and polish.

The step I took:

-wet 3M 800grits or 1000grits to knock down overspray
-wet 3M 1500grits to flatten things out
-~1500rpm wool w/ medium cut polish to remove 1500

This is where I'm at as the sun came up last Sunday.

It looks good so far but the black can be deeper and looks kinda weird w/ strong light reflection, can't really explain it.

Foam pad is next and hope that it looks perfect.

That's all!
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A foam pad will definitely help max out the clarity and remove the haze left by the wool pad. Since you're using some Meguiar's products, get some M205 which is one of their newer polishes and it will make the black paint on your Porsche look like a pool of black oil.


:)
 
Did some research and The weird hazy reflection is recognized as the "hologram effect". Under strong brIght light, I can see it. Up close the clear coat has these itty bitty tiny swirl marks that probably contributed to the "hologram" effect
 
Correction on that Meguiar's polish compound. I actually have the "Machine Glaze - #3".

I haven't used the #3 yet but I will take the recommendation and use the Meguiar's 205 for polishing.

I get sucker into this new hobby and the S.O. does not like it!
 
Just bought the M20532 polish compound to use with my W7000 purple foam pad. $28 including tax at local auto parts. Yippee!!!
 
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