Tutorial: Wetsanding and polishing

Thanks so much for taking the time to make and post these videos. Wetsanding is one area of detailing I've yet to delve into. These videos are very helpful in explaining the process.
 
thank you very much for these videos. i wish you had psoted them about a month ago, but oh well, got it repainted, again, for free. nice job!
 
Thank You Anthony. Learned alot from watching them all.
 
Anthony Orosco said:
We did some filming of us wetsanding a Porsche bumper to correct some fallout and then polishing out the sanding marks.


It's a series of several videos, hope you enjoy them.

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Thanks for the Videos! To bad Photobucket is down for maintenance now.
 
Well I'm glad you all enjoyed the videos, thanks for the encouraging words.

We have some more videos planned and should have them up soon also.....especially now that I figured out how to properly splice videos using NERO:righton:

Thanks again and glad we could shed some light on wet sanding.

Anthony
 
Hi Anthony,

Thank you for sharing, those videos are wicked. Any one can benefit from it from beginner to pro if you ask me.

Keep the video's coming, no complains from me and I'm sure others don't mind. Oh yea that is one sweet vehicle you were working on :awesome:
 
Nice videos Anthony, I had already checked them out on another forum.
 
I was going to watch then thought better of it. I might think I could do it and ruin the corvette and 31 yrs of married bliss. I'll leave it to the pros.
 
Thank you Anthony, outstanding videos. I added it to my favorites. :righton:
 
Anthony: Thank you for posting those videos! I wet sand almost every week on re-conditioned BMW's, and I always have "issues" with plastic body panels. The foam pads create too much heat with a rotary, so I'm using a Festool Rotex which works. Little did I know that the wool pad runs cooler. The dealer has 2 new wool pads, and I've never taken them out of the bag! I'm going to try those now. I use Optimum or Optimum Hyper after wet sanding.

Here's a link to a Start-To-Finish wet sanding project on a 745 Li. We use the 3M Trizact 3000 grit pads on a Snap-On air orbital.

Totoland/Start-To-Finish Detail - Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

Thanks again for the info about wool pads on plastic. That alone should shorten my work time.

Totoland Mach
 
Well you're very welcome and I'm glad you enjoyed the videos. One word of caution here on the wool pads and plastic bumpers.....we are using a lambswool pad and not a twisted or blended wool pad, those with polyester blended in. Those wool pads can be rather aggressive and may create more work for you because of the heavy swirling, especally on the plastic panels.

So on OEM I would use only lambswool but on repaints I may use a blended wool pad if called for.

Hope that helps,
Anthony
 
Anthony Orosco said:
Well you're very welcome and I'm glad you enjoyed the videos. One word of caution here on the wool pads and plastic bumpers.....we are using a lambswool pad and not a twisted or blended wool pad, those with polyester blended in. Those wool pads can be rather aggressive and may create more work for you because of the heavy swirling, especally on the plastic panels.

So on OEM I would use only lambswool but on repaints I may use a blended wool pad if called for.

Hope that helps,
Anthony
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Great response Anthony. I told the dealer and he will get some lambswool pads as the ones he has from 3M are blended wool. I appreciate the info. I'm also doing some scrape/gouge fill-in with an airbrush and will post some how to's when I finish a job. I haven't used an airbrush for 25+ years when I did some custom paint on Harley's (flames, lace, etc). I've got some practice pieces to play around with before I embark on a $$$ Bimmer :)

Toto
 
Great vids Anthony, nothings like watching the pros work. just love it.
 
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