Wet-Sanding Question

[SRHTX]

With the Flex, might as well go with the yellow cutting pad with M105 since you can stop at any point in the process.

I'll do some sanding and buffing with the Flex today and see if I can come up with a pad combination that works really well for removing sanding marks. Maybe the Purple Kompressor.

Mike, please keep me posted about this. I have a Purple Kompressor pad, all of the Kompressor pads, that I have not even used. I really wish to see how you do your correction job.

[SRHTX]

The Kompressor pads I have are:

Black - 44-7650KR
Orange - 44-2650KR
Yellow - 44-4650KR
White - 44-6650KR
Red - 44-1650KR

Now, here is a green pad that I have. It's the LC # 78-34650DA CCS SOFT

The only purple pad I have is the Wool 7-1/2" x 1" Purple Foamed Wool - #58-4275. That is one of my most favorite pads that I use.

[zinc02gt]

I would use the PFW. I have a 4" PFW pad that I use to get close to edges, but I always come back on them with the 3M pad. To me, the PFW lets me be a bit more precise but the 3M finishes A LOT better and that's why sometimes I'll use the the PFW then 3M combo. With more practice, I'm sure that i could get the hang of using a 9" wool pad though and get it right on the edges without doing damage. Just gotta be patient.

My guess would be that you need to ether follow the PFW pad with M105 on a white kompressor or M105 on an orange pad. You could try following it up with M205 on a white pad, but from my experiences with the PFW pads it left ALOT of swirls and hazing, MUCH MUCH more than the 3M Superbuff and I follow the superbuff up with a white pad with M205.

[SRHTX]

Well, I do have a 4" Purple Foamed Wool pad. I can use that lil one if needed.

[zinc02gt]

I would. I like it, don't get me wrong, it's just that the 3M Superbuff finshes like an orange pad, but has the cut of wool. The PFW also seems to get caked up REAL easily with M105.

[David Fermani]

One of the things I demonstrated at the 2010 Mobil Tech Expo was how to remove defects by sanding and then compounding out your sanding marks. The benefits were,

• Damp-Sanding is cooler than compounding with a rotary buffer and a wool pad.
• You regain control over the depth of the defects you're trying to remove.
• Because you now control the depth of the defects you have control over how aggressive you need to get with your compound and pad choice.

Yup - X1,000,000.

Watch out, DA sanding can bcome very addictive. You can compound all day long, but no better way to give an F'd up car a face lift than by lightly sanding it.

I'd rather spend 2-3 hours buzzing down a car and lightly polishing it than spending all day making sure every defect was rounded out with compounding.