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Last edited by Nica; 04-09-2007 at 01:32 AM.
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woah, finally! awesome, nica! keep them coming!
btw, don't you want to take off your watch for that?
lauren
~Lulu~
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great job...the hood looks a hundred times better...and looks like you got a chance to learn the downside of the rotary as well...i use the rotary just on big panels of a car...hood...trunk...roof...and doors...the "ridges" and curved panels get the pc...its good to own both ...a few tips...while you are still learning to use the rotary a good way to test if their is a chance to "burn" paint is to go over the area like you would but with the machine turned off...if the sides of the pad bump into anything...tape that area off...the sides of a rotary pad will often cause the most paint burning issues...its also a good chance to see how you are going to have to angle your machine to stay parallel to the surface you are working on...if at anytime you hear the machine bog down and try to electronically compensate you are doing something wrong...either pressing to hard or you are no longer parallel to the surface....if you feel heat radiating back at you is also another sign you are either polishing to fast or with too much pressure...a little heat is good...but to much and your paint will finish foggy and will never come out...i could go on and on with tips but these are the few basics that I wish someone had told me...luckily like you I had a "beater" to practice on...oh yah...and if the pad cant sit full flat on an area...dont polish it...the edges of the pad will probably burn the paint before you get any real correcting done...the outer edge of the pad is spinning the fastest so dont try to polish by trying to angle the edge of the pad into a sharp turn/curve/groove...something like that you can get away with on a pc..but on a rotary you will see paint bubble...
Last edited by orngez; 04-09-2007 at 01:55 AM.
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Originally Posted by ltoman
woah, finally! awesome, nica! keep them coming!
btw, don't you want to take off your watch for that?
lauren
Yea I should have, if anything I was going to damage my watch lol...teasing. I forgot but I'm sure if I was doing the Volvo or the Lexus the watch rings and all would be off lol.
Originally Posted by orngez
great job...the hood looks a hundred times better...and looks like you got a chance to learn the downside of the rotary as well...i use the rotary just on big panels of a car...hood...trunk...roof...and doors...the "ridges" and curved panels get the pc...its good to own both ...a few tips...while you are still learning to use the rotary a good way to test if their is a chance to "burn" paint is to go over the area like you would but with the machine turned off...if the sides of the pad bump into anything...tape that area off...the sides of a rotary pad will often cause the most paint burning issues...its also a good chance to see how you are going to have to angle your machine to stay parallel to the surface you are working on...if at anytime you hear the machine bog down and try to electronically compensate you are doing something wrong...either pressing to hard or you are no longer parallel to the surface....if you feel heat radiating back at you is also another sign you are either polishing to fast or with too much pressure...a little heat is good...but to much and your paint will finish foggy and will never come out...i could go on and on with tips but these are the few basics that I wish someone had told me...luckily like you I had a "beater" to practice on...oh yah...and if the pad cant sit full flat on an area...dont polish it...the edges of the pad will probably burn the paint before you get any real correcting done...the outer edge of the pad is spinning the fastest so dont try to polish by trying to angle the edge of the pad into a sharp turn/curve/groove...something like that you can get away with on a pc..but on a rotary you will see paint bubble...
I had to edit this...man that is some sweet information...thanks buddy...wow..I got a long way to go...I hope the Jeep can take it hahahaha....well I cant possible make it worse..crossing fingers lol.
Yea, I got the PC but I wanted to see the Metabo in it's full power...hahaha funny because I only got it to 1500 (dial 3 me thinks). The rotary is a great tool, just have to know how to work her...oh yea I named my rotary Lola! Lola and I had fun today and can't wait to get the Cyclo...I need a name for my Cyclo now...hahahaha...to funny but hey if I didn't have fun why would I do it hahahaha. Next time I post something and I use it don't go wondering who is Lola this Nica is refering to hahaha.
Last edited by Nica; 04-09-2007 at 02:01 AM.
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so you gotta PC, a metabo, and a cyclo.
When is the festool coming?
Frank
Thanks to AG I only wipe my butt with MF's now
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also...when polishing with the rotary you should move toward an edge...dont start at one..so like the edge of your hood its better to move from side to side (passenger to driver side) than from front to back....the reason for this is when you finally reach the edge of your hood you do not want to be running a rotary along the same path as the edge of the hood...like stated earlier the outer edge of the pad is what is spinning the fastest...and now that spinning edge is running along the thinnest part of your paint.....what i usually do in rotary polishing is similar to painting a wall...i "cut in" the edges and curves first with either the pc if they are really tight spot..or I set the rotary to its slowest speed and take care of those areas first...now that the edges are done I do the rest of the big flat area without worrying about getting close to the edges because they are already done...
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Nica, thank you showing your work in progress, I do appreciate you doing this. That's what it takes playing around with the rotary to get it down. Something I need to with mine. You really turn that hood around. Awesome write up. Keep us updated on your Jeep's progress. By the way what speeds were you running on your rotary.
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Nice job Nica! It looks like a good vehicle to practice your rotary skill on.
Are you trying to be a tape artist?
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orngez - Those are some really good tips, please if you got more keep them coming. I'm taking all your sharing wth me and I'm transfering to a word document and printing it off, thank you.
sparkie - I was mostly using (I think) 1,000 rpms (dial 2) but when I almost burnt through the paint I was using about 1,500 rmp (dial 3 ish). Just wanted to fool around and that I did. Overal it's still hard to burn through the paint if your carefull and I can totally understand why people say lower speeds is better. But it's good to know how fast you can burn through the cc and the paint.
Gary - lol..yea I went a little over board with the taping but I having fun and well just thought I'd continue doing the hood lol.
AUdakota - I know I got to many toys but a friend from work is going to purchase my PC so I needed to replace it and decided ont he Cyclo. Next tool that's on it's way here is the paint gauge EGT-II..very nice paint gauge.
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