Rotaries can and will eat paint

[Mike@DedicatedPerfection]

Gang, please be careful and take your time when working with a rotary buffer. Burning paint with this style machine can be a real headache. It can happen to anyone. Now I get to prep the bumper and shoot it with new paint. I was merely trying to buff out some scuffs/scratches and then put some touch up paint over the smaller exposed white areas and next thing I know the machine ate through the paint.

I was using Euro Spec products. I had Bosch Rotary along with 3M rubbing compound along with a 3M foam Compounding pad at 1500 rpm.

[LSNAutoDetailing]

Well, looks like you got the scratches out!

[dlc95]

How much pressure?

Was it the white 3M waffle pad?

[WaxMaster1]

Yikes Mike, was that OEM paint or a potential inferior respray considering it's a bumper cover?

[LSNAutoDetailing]

Back in the day, the USAF would have taken that out of my paycheck. Do they still do that?

[Heisenberg]

Thanks for the reminder, Mike. Kudos to you for posting an "oops" like this for the world to see. Just shows that things can and do happen to even the most experienced professionals out there, no matter how prepared you are.

[Mike@DedicatedPerfection]

Well, looks like you got the scratches out!

Yeah it did!!!!!

How much pressure?

Was it the white 3M waffle pad?

Probably around 10lbs.

It was a Euro spec 3M orange flat faced compounding pad.

Yikes Mike, was that OEM paint or a potential inferior respray considering it's a bumper cover?

It was a shoddy repaint.

Back in the day, the USAF would have taken that out of my paycheck. Do they still do that?

No not really.

Since I work in a body shop I get to prep and repaint the bumper.

[Mike@DedicatedPerfection]

Thanks for the reminder, Mike. Kudos to you for posting an "oops" like this for the world to see. Just shows that things can and do happen to even the most experienced professionals out there, no matter how prepared you are.

No problem. Wanted to share with everyone what can happen and show as a reminder what can happen. I know we all get comfortable in doing what we do and this can serve as an alarming reminder of what can happen.

[dad07]

Ouch! That sucks Mike....look on the bright side you get practice your painting skills and then your buffing all over again. Good luck with it buddy...would like to see pics when you fix it.

[Rod73]

I'm sorry to see that happen. It is definitely a good reminder to everyone about using a rotary with care.