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Mike, as long as the pad is rotating under pressure, it's all good ?
I mean, griot's doesn't needs speed 6 like PC... sometimes even speed 5 is not needed under pressure to keep pad rotation.... would it be safe to assume that speed 4 on the Griot's as long as the pad is rotating under pressure, we are getting a satisfactory correction ?

Thank you,

Diego
 
DaC said:
Mike, as long as the pad is rotating under pressure, it's all good ?
I mean, griot's doesn't needs speed 6 like PC... sometimes even speed 5 is not needed under pressure to keep pad rotation.... would it be safe to assume that speed 4 on the Griot's as long as the pad is rotating under pressure, we are getting a satisfactory correction ?
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Correct.

It's when the pad is rotating under pressure that you are engaging the abrasives with the paint to force them to take little bites out of the paint and that's how you remove below surface defects like swirls and scratches.

I will often use the Flex PE14 at low RPM's for correction work.


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The Young Man has the BEST arm speed & movement...Good Job Lil man!!!:xyxthumbs:
 
Mike I also saw you're using SF4000 for finishing and mentioned that 3-4 section passes would be fine... would it apply to SF4500 also ? How much section passes is it really needed before it breaks down ?
 
Real quick...

Paul the owner owns a custom car shop where he builds cars as well as paints them, so he needs body shop safe products for production work but he still wants to put out high quality work for his customers.

Since the paint has already been sanded and compounded, we didn't need to compound it again just remove the swirls and some of the sanding marks left behind.

For this we're using the Menzerna SI 1500 for the correction step and the Menzerna SF 4000 for the final polishing step.

Next we're going to use Pinnacle Souveran Paste Wax except we're going to machine apply it using 5.5" Crimson Hydro-Tech pads on DA Polishers.

My personal preference is to do as many steps as possible by machine and get the human hand out of the picture.

After we machine wax the paint we'll carefully remove the wax and then move the car out, roll up the floor mats and bring the car back in for the "beauty shots".

Throughout this process I've taken pictures and I'll get some posted to our forum tomorrow.

All these products, pads and tools can be found on Autogeek.net

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DaC said:
Mike I also saw you're using SF4000 for finishing and mentioned that 3-4 section passes would be fine... would it apply to SF4500 also ? How much section passes is it really needed before it breaks down ?
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Using good technique you should be safe around 4 section passes... if you overuse the product then you would need more time. Always focus on the task at hand and inspect your work after each pass to get a feel for how your results look relative to your technique.

Good question...


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I'm so enjoying joining you guys over there although being in Brazil! You should do that more often... "=]
 
This was great Mike, thanks to you and Yancy for setting this up, audio was great, much better than at DF for whatever reason.
 
seeing the kid polish made me think of something, mike should host a detail day for kids who are into cars yet are troubled kids and teach them a trade would be a cool thing to do for the local florida community.
 
Hey Mike, are all the detailers experienced? I see some of them are using rotaries, aren't you afraid someone might burn paint?
 
slickooz said:
Hey Mike, are all the detailers experienced? I see some of them are using rotaries, aren't you afraid someone might burn paint?
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Yes, and many of the guys have been here for my classes or other detailing projects.

There were a few new guys though and we started them out on the PC style polishers.

Everyone did a great job and the Valiant came out great!


I'll post some pictures tomorrow. Time to shut down Autogeek's Show Car Garage!



Thank you everyone for watching!



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I think I saw you use the white hybrid pad on the 3401 and the tangerine on the pc for the same step. Do you recommend the hybrid pads on the 3401 over the flat or hydro tech?
 
mets2010 said:
I think I saw you use the white hybrid pad on the 3401 and the tangerine on the pc for the same step. Do you recommend the hybrid pads on the 3401 over the flat or hydro tech?
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We had different things going on... for the experienced detailers were using the Flex rotary buffers and the 3401's with the Hybrid Pads, both 6.5" and the new 4.5" pads.

For the people new to machine polishing I set them up with 5.5" Hydro-Tech pads on the PC style polishers.

I did my Test Spot using the PC style polishers with the 5.5" Hydro-Tech pads and I new when this combo removed the swirls and scratches that it would be a cake-walk for the more powerful tools to do the same with any pad.

I'll post some pictures today...

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:cry::cry::cry:

I missed it all!

Guess I'm gonna have to keep checking in more than just in the morning.

Geeze, just realized the time you were 'on'...I was in class, lost on two accounts...grumble grumble grumble.

Bill
 
BillE said:
:cry::cry::cry:

I missed it all!

Guess I'm gonna have to keep checking in more than just in the morning.

Geeze, just realized the time you were 'on'...I was in class, lost on two accounts...grumble grumble grumble.

Bill
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Hi Bill,

Next time we'll post way ahead of time if we're going to do a live broadcast. Last night's car project came out AWESOME!

I need to process a few things and then I'll get some pictures up...


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Thanks to Mike and everyone who helped to arrange the broadcast last night. Learned several new tips.

BTW, video and audio on my end was great. But, I did miss out on a few tips due to the occasional commercials.:props:
 
Here's a couple teaser shots...

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After
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