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Re: What am I doing wrong :( Holograms
Originally Posted by loudog2
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Re: What am I doing wrong :( Holograms
The problem is not with the polishes you use, is the way your work with your makita. When you edging with the makita you live some buffer trail that cause those holograms but if you will try to work on your polishing skills, flat pad not edging you will be fine. I am not saying you dont know how to handle a rotary it is just the extra attention for these small details.
Hope that will fix your problem.
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Re: What am I doing wrong :( Holograms
Originally Posted by Eliran
The problem is not with the polishes you use, is the way your work with your makita. When you edging with the makita you live some buffer trail that cause those holograms but if you will try to work on your polishing skills, flat pad not edging you will be fine. I am not saying you dont know how to handle a rotary it is just the extra attention for these small details.
Hope that will fix your problem.
I totally agree. I've recently switched from 6.5"ccs pads to 8" 3M pads and noticed my angles can easily get out of control!
I'm practicing a new technique on a carrera right now, I'll post some pics up after in a couple hours, see if I can get it right the first time haha
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Re: What am I doing wrong :( Holograms
Originally Posted by Chatelaine
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Trying to create a 100% swirl free finish on a clear coated black vehicle using ONLY a direct-drive rotary buffer is hard to do.
Sometimes it has nothing to do with how GREAT you are at using a rotary buffer, sometimes it has to do with the paint itself, (something out of your control), as some paints are easy to polish swirl free while others are impossible.
This is another reason the dual action polishers have become so popular as they will insure a swirl-free finish when used after a rotary buffer.
Switching from a rotary buffer to a dual action polisher is switching from a direct drive machine that is rotating a pad in a circle to a machine that has a clutch and is oscillating the pad, which is making circles inside of a larger circle.
I alway do a test spot to one small area of the vehicle and make sure I can make one small area look perfect or swirl-free with my products and process of choice before going over the entire vehicle as going over the entire vehicle only to find out your products and process of choice isn't working can be kind of depressing.
Also, you need to finish with a finishing foam pad and a light finishing polisher for the last machine polishing steps, this is in essence what jeweling is.
Jeweling is a new term on the Internet for what guys with rotary buffers have always done, we just never gave it name except the finishing step, or the last finishing step, or the last machine finishing step with a rotary buffer etc.
Besides all of the above, it's vital that everything be surgically clean including cleaning your pads often, a pad washer works best for this but a pad cleaning brush can be used also.
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Re: What am I doing wrong :( Holograms
Thats probably the problem. Will look forward to those pics.
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Re: What am I doing wrong :( Holograms
So what step in the process would you recommend I use a Porter cable?
85Rd?
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Re: What am I doing wrong :( Holograms
Ok I finished the front end, just having trouble getting a good quality picture. I have very basic camera knowledge and this low light indoor stuff is hard
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Re: What am I doing wrong :( Holograms
From that picture it looks perfect the true test will be outside in the sun.Yes you can use the Pc with the 85rd
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Re: What am I doing wrong :( Holograms
Originally Posted by Chatelaine
Ok I finished the front end, just having trouble getting a good quality picture. I have very basic camera knowledge and this low light indoor stuff is hard
holy crap thats awesome! looks like melting vynal!
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