Damp Sanding RDS - Panther Black Ford Fiesta ST

**evo6rss** · 03-29-2016, 03:58 AM

Most of us have probably seen Mike's threads and videos of removing RDS by feather sanding/damp sanding and thought I ain't doing that.. Well Mike, you gave me the confidence to have a go.

I found this nasty RDS on the fiesta last night..

The position of the RDS in the edge of arch meant even with 4in spot pad on the flex the panel edges were causing me concern in terms of possible strike through with a polishing/refining 2 step process..

So what to do.. Bring out the 3000 grit Trizact Daisy's and the scholl concepts sanding bloc.

The key to success here is to be very gentle and not use too much water. The water is clearly for lubrication, but to much and you hyper lubricate. For this I used 1 spritz from a bottle and then shook the bloc off. You know when you have it just right because the water creates surface tension keeping the trizact disc in contact with the sanding area and the bloc with drag slightly.

You will also see the clear coat slurry develop quite quickly as can be shown in this pic.

This result was attained from approx a half dozen initial gentle passes and then a few more. I would advise no more for each damp sanding pass, reducing the number of passes as you see the scratch start to be removed when you have wiped the residue.

I then gave the area a tickle with 3500 on a Red Lake Country Hydro-Tech pad. Maybe 6 passes to refine and ended up with this result..

Close up..

All done and RDS safely removed. I didn't use my PTG for this because having measured this area before, I knew I had about 110 microns to play with. This process should only remove enough clear coat to just correct the RDS.

Thanks for looking..

EVO6RSS..

Mike Phillips · 03-29-2016, 09:09 AM

Nice work. Thank you for sharing.

Also for everyone reading this into the future, the acrynm is actually, RIDS

RIDS = Random Isolated Deeper Scratches

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