Time-Lapse Video: Wetsand, Cut and Buff 1964 Malibu

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

Time-Lapse Video: Wetsand, Cut and Buff 1964 Malibu


I started the actual sanding around 10:00am this morning and have about 75% of the car done and all the way through to wax. Just have the passenger side vertical panels left to do.

Sanded with 3M Trizact #3000 then #5000 then compounded, polished twice and then machine waxed.

The GoPro is set up to take a picture ever minute. I 'll finish the passenger side this weekend and sometime next week Yancy will have the video on YouTube.

That I know of, this is the first time a complete wetsand, cut and buff all the way through to wax has ever been captured via time-lapse.

Time to shut down the show car garage...

 

[Chris@AutoCleanse]

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[VroomVroom]

^ Yeah, that. Absolutely awesome. I can't wait to watch the video....thanks!

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

^ Yeah, that. Absolutely awesome. I can't wait to watch the video....thanks!

Hopefully I'll have this wrapped up today. Was working on this last Friday and then was interrupted till today.

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

Finished.


The car just glistens in the studio.


I'll share some picture tomorrow and as soon as the video is created from the time-lapse I'll add it to the first post of this thread.

 

[Chris@AutoCleanse]

Burning the midnight oil, I am sure the car looks fantastic though, can't wait to see the pictures and video.

 

[akj]

Subscribed!!! Can't wait to see it!!
Man I really really wanna come there for boot camp..

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[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

This is the last car project I'll be doing here at Autogeek as a single guy as I'm leaving in a few hours and won't be back till Tuesday, March 19th, so this is the last write-up for any projects for a while...

It was cloudy the day Mike Gelter brought his 1964 Chevy Chevelle Malibu Convertible to Autogeek but I did take a few before pictures to show the current condition of the paint.

Under the cloudy sky you can see the orange peel, it actually looks worse under fluorescents and if I can find the "before" pictures I took under the florescent lights in the studio I'll add them to this thread...

IF you look closely you can see dieback in the paint, that's where the paint shrinks back into the prep sanding marks in the primer. These all sanded and buffed out.

Time Lapse Video
Yancy has the Time Lapse Video that shows from the solvent wipe down to the final application of wax and everything in-between. As soon as he has it edited and uploaded I'll add it to the first post of this thread.


Beauty Shots
Until then, here's the beauty shots. I machine sanded twice, compound with wool and rotary once, polished with rotary and foam once, polished with a DA polisher once and then machine applied Pinnacle Souveran Paste Wax.

Here's Mike the owner driving the car out of the garage...

The sun shots....

Into the trailer and back home...

Here's everything I used.

I did the entire project by myself and I think the time-lapse video will show it took me approximately 12 hours. (No roof, A-pillars or B-pillars to sand and buff)

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

Here's picture 5 from above...

And here's two full size sections cropped out of it showing the sanding prep marks in the paint after the paint dried and shrunk back a little. All of these defects sanded and buffed out.

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

Hopefully Yance can get to the GoPro footage taken from this project sometime in the future as it captured then entire process from start to beginning.

Here's the tape I used for all the raised body lines and there were a lot of them...


3M Blue Vinyl Tape

3M Vinyl Tape 1/4 Inch - 06405

3M Vinyl Tape 1/8 Inch - 06404

 

[Smurf]

What speed setting are you guys using with the Trizact 1500 and the 3000 on the DA.

 

[erichaley]

Hopefully Yance can get to the GoPro footage taken from this project sometime in the future as it captured then entire process from start to beginning.

Here's the tape I used for all the raised body lines and there were a lot of them...


3M Blue Vinyl Tape

3M Vinyl Tape 1/4 Inch - 06405

3M Vinyl Tape 1/8 Inch - 06404

I love this tape. I both of those sizes plus the 3/4" width, which is great for moldings!

 

[erichaley]

What speed setting are you guys using with the Trizact 1500 and the 3000 on the DA.

Keep in mind that the Trizact 1500 Clear Coat Sanding Disc (which is identical to the Meguiar's 1500 sanding disc except for color) is different than from the Trizact 3000 and 5000 discs in that the former is a sanding disc and the latter two are finishing discs.

The 1500 sanding disc is going to cut much faster than the finishing discs, and from experience, I have come to find that 3 is the best speed to run them at.

The finishing discs, on the other hand, work best at speed 4.

At this very moment I'm preparing to do some damp sanding of my own with these very same discs. Just finished getting everything taped off...

 

[Smurf]

Cheers for the info let me know how you get on :xyxthumbs:

 

[erichaley]

Thanks!

Here's a quick side by side of a 3" Meguiar's 1500 Grit Sanding Disc (left) and a 3M 1500 Grit Clearcoat Sanding Disc (right):

 

[R4IDER]

What a turnarround!!!

mike can u point me to a walktrough on the correct way of wet sanding and how to choose the correct paper? did a search for it but did not found something solid as youre postings are.

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

What a turnarround!!!

mike can u point me to a walktrough on the correct way of wet sanding and how to choose the correct paper? did a search for it but did not found something solid as youre postings are.

From my article list....





Wetsanding - Dampsanding - Colorsanding Topics

New - How to remove wetsanding scratches by hand - FG 400



Wetsanding, Colorsanding & Dampsanding

3M Trizact 6 Inch 3000 Grit Performance Sanding Disc 01459 - Singles

Video: Wow! 3M #5000 Grit Polishing I mean Sanding Discs!

3™ Trizact™ Foam Discs 5000 FAQs

New Toy - #5000 Grit Trizact Foam Finishing Discs

How to use Meguiar's Unigrit Sanding Blocks to remove runs and dirt nibs in paint

Damp-Sanding Tools, Tips and Techniques by Mike Phillips

RIDS and Feathersanding - A Highly Specialized Technique by Mike Phillips

Wetsanding - Fresh Paint vs Factory Paint

Basic Hand Sanding Techniques

The Rule of Thumb

Fight or Flight Method for Gaging Surface Temperature

Griot's 3" Mini Polisher works great as a 3" Dampsander

Dampsanding with 3" Griot's Garage Mini Polisher

It's the person that does the wet-sanding, cutting and buffing that makes or breaks the paint job -Mike Phillips

Meguiar's 6" Unigrit Sanding and Finishing Discs

Meguiar's New 3 Inch Professional Headlight & Spot Repair Kit

Two Schools of Thought when Hand Sanding - Straight-lines or Crosshatch Pattern

The difference between 3M's Hookit and Hookit II Hook-N-Loop Interface Systems

List of Sanding Discs at Autogeek.net

If it has paint... it gets polished...

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?

Can an air-powered DA Sander be used to polish paint?




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[R4IDER]

WOW! i dont get how all of those didnt turned up on my searches , guess i did not dig deep enough

Mike you are the man!

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

WOW! i dont get how all of those didnt turned up on my searches , guess i did not dig deep enough

Mike you are the man!

They are all on my article list under wetsanding and the link to my article list is in my Signature Line. With almost 40,000 posts it's pretty easy to find my article list.


If you have any specific questions, please post them...



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