Wet sanding done. Next step?

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dooger54

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I have a 1969 Shelby GT500 I am doing paint correction on. It has single stage paint, no clear coat. It has very bad orange peel and fish eye. I started with wet sanding, using my DA and 3M Trizact pads. I started with 1500, then moved to 3000 and finished with 5000. Happily, it has taken care of 90% of the problems. I am happy with it at this stage.

I am now ready to start polishing with compound. My first thought is to use my Mezerna Heavy Cut Compound with an orange Lake Country pad. Now I’m wondering if this is necessary? Maybe I should go right to a polishing/finsishing compound like the Mezerna Final Finish 3000? Advice please!
 
dooger54 said:
I have a 1969 Shelby GT500 I am doing paint correction on. It has single stage paint, no clear coat. It has very bad orange peel and fish eye. I started with wet sanding, using my DA and 3M Trizact pads. I started with 1500, then moved to 3000 and finished with 5000. Happily, it has taken care of 90% of the problems. I am happy with it at this stage.

I am now ready to start polishing with compound. My first thought is to use my Mezerna Heavy Cut Compound with an orange Lake Country pad. Now I’m wondering if this is necessary? Maybe I should go right to a polishing/finsishing compound like the Mezerna Final Finish 3000? Advice please!
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Since you finished sanding with 5000 grit you can go directly to a polishing compound such as the one that you mentioned.
 
Start with the least aggressive method first, check your work/results and adjust up/down from there.

Keep us posted and we will definitely need some pictures!
 
Flash Gordon said:
Since you finished sanding with 5000 grit you can go directly to a polishing compound such as the one that you mentioned.
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When I used to sand headlights with 5000 grit I would go straight to polish and skip the compound. Of course as Sizzle says, check your results and adjust as necessary.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
When I used to sand headlights with 5000 grit I would go straight to polish and skip the compound. Of course as Sizzle says, check your results and adjust as necessary.
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I would imagine there's already a partial shine at that point, but yes always least aggressive first can't hurt anything but time
 
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