recommendations for pads to polish wheel barrels

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the powdercoat on my wheels has gotten scratched more than i would like it to be. hard to see the scratches with a poorly polished metal background (shop that did the work should have corrected it, but i ended up being stuck with it). i have plenty of polishes that i believe should work fine, but the idea of using a da to polish the rims doesn't seem like it would work well.

what does everybody use to polish the lip inside of wheels , an extra thick pad? a small dia pad like a 3"?

i was thinking i would get something super small so that i had more even area touching the wheel as opposed to a larger area from a wider pad.

open to suggestions
 
A test spot it ideal, though your gonna need at lease a 3 inch backing plate with a green pad and either something like meguiars m105 and m205 combo or an all in one product
 
Hernandez 2" Polisher might work great for that application
 
Hey Turbo

I used to do my own powder coating years ago and started experimenting with powder coat clears and even posted up one job I did taking an LT1 intake off a 96 firebird and polishing the ribs and then powder coated the rest of it to look like the Vette LT1 that was the same way.

Learned alot testing and experimenting with powder coating and the one thing I learned was that you can do powder coating the same as paint, even wet sanding, and dry sanding as well, and polish out just like a auto paint.

And the shinier you get a piece in powder coating the easier it is to scratch and/or show up easily. And my recommendation for polishing powder coat is to treat it just like auto paint, Least aggressive application, technique and products.

Back then when I was in to it heavy there were 3 to 5 types of powders and so many companies that had there own brand and all the temps and cure times along with being able to powder coat plastic with some types of powder in ovens for up 10 minutes.

The reason For me going into this story with that much info is the reason for the least aggressive because some powder coatings react in different ways to being polished, sanded and even cleaned with some solvents. Not trying to scare or make you nervous, just trying to help and save you from some of my mistakes thinking just because I could sand this powder coated part with 1500 grit might destroy another and be a strip and redo.

So start with the least aggressive and remember about machine speed, pressure, arm speed, pad and product, Hope I've give some ideal's and helped you out a little. And don't be scared just take your time and you will have it perfect again. And in writing this out I miss all the testing I did and was just wondering how powder coating would do and look like with some GTechniq C1 & EXO applied!!!
 
thank daniel.

i think my biggest concern is the shape of the pad and how the flat surface of a pad would fit into the curve shape and still give a good uniform removal of paint.

i was hoping somebody had heard of a special dome shaped pad you can use on a da that i could work some m105 in with
 
TurboToys said:
thank daniel.

i think my biggest concern is the shape of the pad and how the flat surface of a pad would fit into the curve shape and still give a good uniform removal of paint.

i was hoping somebody had heard of a special dome shaped pad you can use on a da that i could work some m105 in with
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I just ordered a 3" Lake Country wool ball to use on mine to get in the tight areas. I'm hoping that with a very mind polish will give me a descent finish. It should come in tomorrow. Should be trying it out in a few days. I am a little nervous about the wool but after doing research on all the product I thought that was the best option
 
Rsurfer said:
Use a power cone with a drill.
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Power Ball, Power Cone, Mothers has had that end of the (wheel polishing) market covered for some time now. Although some of those get darned expensive! (Much more so than a removable DA pad.) Not to mention they have some excellent wheel polishes. (Not that those would work for powder coating, likely WAAAAAAY too aggressive.)
 
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