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How to polish around raised body lines?
I understand it's not recommended to polish directly on a body line or raised edge. BUT, how do you guys do this? For example, some hoods are full of raised edges/styling lines.
Do you tape it off and act like they're not there and polish like normal? Or do you polish right up to it but NOT actually touch it? Should you go back over by hand later and polish it out?
Also, do you polish on edges by machine as well? Like, the corners where it turns from hood into fender?
There..that should be enough questions..hah...
Thanks! I've watched videos and read on here, but still not sure what the proper technique is.
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Re: How to polish around raised body lines?
I'm interested to hear about others techniques as well.
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foam pads and move quickly...with an orbital it's not much of a problem, you won't do damage...
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There really isn't a right or wrong answer here. It just depends on how careful you are. High points and ridges typically have thinner coatings than flatter portions of the body...so this makes being careful an even greater imperative than just the obvious of it being a high point therefore susceptible to greater friction. The absolute safest method is to tape it off, but you can polish right up to it or even over IF you are careful.
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Re: How to polish around raised body lines?
I just polish right up to the line. I do this on the DA and the rotary. Honestly though, you probably do not need to do it with a DA. I just choose to because I do not want to get sloppy with the rotary. Kind of a repetition thing I guess.
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Re: How to polish around raised body lines?
Originally Posted by bigez
I understand it's not recommended to polish directly on a body line or raised edge. BUT, how do you guys do this? For example, some hoods are full of raised edges/styling lines.
Do you tape it off and act like they're not there and polish like normal? Or do you polish right up to it but NOT actually touch it? Should you go back over by hand later and polish it out?
Also, do you polish on edges by machine as well? Like, the corners where it turns from hood into fender?
There..that should be enough questions..hah...
Thanks! I've watched videos and read on here, but still not sure what the proper technique is.
Tapping always turns in to hell for me. It seems when I tape and use a rotary I always get glue on the pad then it gets on the paint then its a whole mess lol
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Using a DA......What does the pro do in this situation? Since I found this has been asked about. Could Mike Phillips (or anyone with experience) do a video of this method for us on YouTube? Every video I usually see is a nice flat hood.
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We taped ALL the raised body lines on the AMX we sanded and buffed... starting at 1:20 you can see Paul, Ben and I taping off the hood...
3M provided their Blue Vinyl Tape for this project and you can see it here on the raised body lines on this hood as I'm compounding after sanding.
After we finished sanding and compounding each of the panels as well as the body shell, we would remove the tape and then compound off the tape line and remove any sanding marks right next to were the tape laid. You do this carefully as you are now buffing right next to the raised body lines.
I'm not sure how much of this will be in the video Yancy is creating you'll have to wait and see...
I have a Musting coming up that we're going to sand and buff for a live broadcast and during the live broadcast I can show taping off the edges and then doing the "clean-up" buffing after removing the tape-line.
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