School of Horrendous!

[Mike.Phillips@Autogeek]

School of Horrendous!

Seriously...

Do people have to learn how to do such horrendous rotary buffer work?










It hurt my eyes to frame up and capture these shots...

I captured the "Before" shots of the condition of the paint before I start doing any sanding and buffing for the car in this thread...

1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass - 28,948 Original Miles


Need to close my eyes now and go to a happy place... ahh... pushing the gas pedal to the floor in my Sanger Drag Boat... fond memories...

[aerogt01]

Wow! It amazes me work like that makes it out the door! I guess the glaze wore off.

[RTexasF]

I'm anxious to see the intensive care put to the Cutlass myself, that is God-awful!


Side Note:

Need to close my eyes now and go to a happy place... ahh... pushing the gas pedal to the floor in my Sanger Drag Boat... fond memories...

Far from a Sanger but I miss my Sea Ray Pachanga also. I find myself thinking back to those days when burning 20 gallons an hour was no big deal. I miss it but if I had it today I couldn't even tow it (that 460 c.i. Merc station wagon is long gone) much less feed it . I don't recall what I had for supper yesterday but the good times in that boat surface often. I share your pain.

[apg39]

Scary enough I see this all the time in my home town, local "detailer" flaunts everywhere that he has 25 years experience at his job, yet thats pretty much exactly how they come out.

Soon as I get some experience in doing it I'll be doing a big advert in the paper pointing out how cr@p that kind of job is.

[C. Charles Hahn]

Originally Posted by apg39

Scary enough I see this all the time in my home town, local "detailer" flaunts everywhere that he has 25 years experience at his job, yet thats pretty much exactly how they come out.

Proof that "experience" alone does not make someone good at what they do. It could just as well mean little more than 25 years of building and reinforcing bad habits!

[Mike.Phillips@Autogeek]

Originally Posted by Shiny Lil Detlr

It could just as well mean little more than 25 years of building and reinforcing bad habits!

How many cars could a single person swirl out in 25 years?

Scary thought...

[Grizzly]

Perhaps we should not look down on someone for doing things incorrectly in this trade.

I am sure each and every one of us has done a "hack" job in some other line of work and someone like us has said the same thing.

[BobbyG]

Originally Posted by Mike.Phillips@Autogeek

How many cars could a single person swirl out in 25 years?

Scary thought...

Mike, I guess this does require some practice and talent to produce nearly symmetrical swirls....

The other day a black Monte Carlo went by and the swirls were so bad it looked like a paint was moving as the car went by...no kidding!

Don't forget to tape off those cowl vents otherwise you'll have more to do inside the vent area..

[C. Charles Hahn]

Originally Posted by Grizzly

Perhaps we should not look down on someone for doing things incorrectly in this trade.

I am sure each and every one of us has done a "hack" job in some other line of work and someone like us has said the same thing.

Granted, we've all probably tackled a DIY project in some other area that came out with less-than-professional results, but I think there's also a difference between someone trying to do a job in an area they're not familiar with for themselves and someone trying to represent themselves as a professional while repeatedly producing "hack" level results for their customers.

[LegacyGT]

Mike & all,

How exactly does this happen? As someone who is going to start rotary buffing when the PE14's ship, I would like to better understand how this sort of thing occurs so that I can avoid it.

Is this just the result of trying to finish with a wool cutting pad?