Mike Phillips
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- Dec 5, 2022
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Rotary Buffer Tip - Prime the side edges of foam cutting pads
Here's a technique that can save your butt when doing aggressive cutting into curved panels. It was buried in another article of mine written back in 2010.
Anytime you're buffing next to an adjacent panel and it's possible you could run the vertical or side edge of your pad into the paint, lubricate it by working some of the product you're using on the face of the pad onto and into the foam.
This will help to keep from generating too much heat and burning the paint and also in the case of these lower panels, help me to remove some of the sanding marks on the angled section.
It's this little long thin section I'm trying to improve and protect.
Picking up just a portion of the bead of product using the 10 @ 10 technique and then working it over a portion of this panel.
Note the safety glasses... don't want any splatter in my eyes...
After removing the sanding marks in the front portion of that panel I picked up my bead and tackled the rear portion...
My personal preference is not handle, if there is a handle I actually prefer a stick handle over a hoop handle as I can quickly and easily either remove it or move it from side to side depending upon how it works best for the panel.
Before
The paint was mottled. I sanded it flat and then removed my sanding marks.
After
Much better...
Here's a technique that can save your butt when doing aggressive cutting into curved panels. It was buried in another article of mine written back in 2010.
Anytime you're buffing next to an adjacent panel and it's possible you could run the vertical or side edge of your pad into the paint, lubricate it by working some of the product you're using on the face of the pad onto and into the foam.
This will help to keep from generating too much heat and burning the paint and also in the case of these lower panels, help me to remove some of the sanding marks on the angled section.
It's this little long thin section I'm trying to improve and protect.
Picking up just a portion of the bead of product using the 10 @ 10 technique and then working it over a portion of this panel.
Note the safety glasses... don't want any splatter in my eyes...
After removing the sanding marks in the front portion of that panel I picked up my bead and tackled the rear portion...
My personal preference is not handle, if there is a handle I actually prefer a stick handle over a hoop handle as I can quickly and easily either remove it or move it from side to side depending upon how it works best for the panel.
Before
The paint was mottled. I sanded it flat and then removed my sanding marks.
After
Much better...
