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The only time I hand sand is when I HAVE to hand sand.... for everything else I always machine sand and I'll choose and use a Porter Cable 7424XP or a Griot's Garage 3" Mini Polisher to do the machine sanding before an air powered sanded in most cases.
1956 Chevy Bel-Air - Damp Sanding, Cut & Polish
This is a 1956 Chevy that Matt and I dampsanded and then buffed out.
I'll let the pictures do the rest of the talking...you can see this baby was in need of some real TLC! This repaint of 20-25 years old according to the owner, but my Defelsko gauge told me that it had anywhere from 12 to 18 mils of paint...
Here I'm using a small piece of detailing clay stuck to the hood to give my camera something to focus on and the using the flash to expose the swirls. Without the clay, a quarter or nickle, or my finger the shot would come out all fuzzy because the camera wouldn't be able to focus directly on the surface.
This is a very nice 1956 Chevrolet Belair but the paint was thrashed...
All taped-off
Damp-Sanding with Meguiar's Unigrit #3000 Unigrit Finishing Discs
Matt and I used 2 discs to sand down the entire car...
Here's Matt damp-sanding the roof...
We started at 9:16AM, and finished around 9:42AM. Under 40 minutes to damp-sand an entire car this big, and we only used (2) sanding discs (1 each)!
Just how much work it is to completely wet sand an entire car, not to mention a streetrod doesn't really sink in till start sanding....
Normally you would want to wipe off the sanding sludge as you work around the car but it makes for a more cool photo to leave all the sludge on the car. Here we've wiped the car clean and we're ready to start compounding.
#3000 Grit leaves a flat sheen that's easily buffed out...
Finishing touches....
After compounding, polishing, and applying the first coat of a paint protection product, we "edged" the car, in this example edging means to open all the doors, trunk lid and hood and wipe out any compounding or polishing residue in the cracks and crevises...
Edging....
When you open the car all up for any reason and take a picture, this is called stretching, kind of like you when your spread out your arms and stretch out...
Stretching...
All finished in around 8 hours with two guys working in the garage... you know, 2 Guys Garage... in Autogeek's Show Car Garage...
This is Matt putting the frosting on the cake, for frosting he's using Wolfgang Fusion and applying by machine...
If you look at the front most overhead florescent lights you can see a clear circle where he's broken the wax open... we show this technique here and here...
Wearing Microfiber Gloves and using a Cobra Deluxe Jr. 600 Microfiber Towel to remove the Fusion...
Thin coating...
Fold your microfiber towels 4-ways to give you 8 wiping sides and plenty of cushion to spread the pressure of your hand out...
Finish shots...
Here's Yancy having way too much fun...
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Re: Safety First - Always plug-in to a GFI or Ground Fault Interrupter
For any of the above projects, if you don't have an outlet with built-in GFI then definitley use a portable GFI like this one....
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This whole thread is a gift for who cares to take a look on a safety issue.
Thanks for information. It's good to see how many things it's possible to do working safe.
Beautiful demonstration on the cyclo and brushes;
The BelAir pictures are what I would call SHARP reflexes, WOW!
As always, perfect documentation, it's close to being there, wonderful pictures!
I could stay here the whole day writing good things about this thread,...
Kind Regards.
“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”
― Isaac Newton
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Originally Posted by Tato
This whole thread is a gift for who cares to take a look on a safety issue.
Thanks...
I don't want anyone to think I don't care about safety as I do. In fact, the running joke in my family is my middle name is safety.
Big pictures is this.... I've never been shocked using electrical tools around water or moisture in the detailing world. Doesn't mean it can't happen or won't happen but I try to use a little common sense and that goes a long ways.
So if you're reading this and you plan on machine scrubbing your tires like I do. Or you're planning on machine wet sanding something like I do, or you're going to machine scrub some vinyl or some non-skid surfaces on a boat.... then please take the necessary precautions to keep yourself and/or other safe and please use some common sense.
There are not any cars or boats out their worth getting hurt over....
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Just my 2 cents... I work in landscaping, not detailing, but we use power tools fairly often. I would highly suggest that all garage/shop outlets be protected with a GFI (you only need 1 GFI outlet per circuit/circuit breaker). Even if you never plan to have water anywhere near your tools, it's that unexpected one in a million leak, spill, or puddle that is going to get you. The minimal cost and time of putting in a GFI is more than worth the piece of mind.
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Great write up!! Being an electrician for the last 25 years GFCI's have really came to the forefront. They are required in many more places than they used to be..
Great to bring them up from time to time to keep everybody safe!!
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