Buffing factory Sj paint

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Kennay

Squarenose for the _____
Location
Myrtle Beach, SC
If you REALLY want to get down on that sum bitch, you will need

-A gray foam 3m pad
-Variable speed buffer
-3m Extra Cut
-3m Finesse it
-You're choice of wax for the final coat, applied and taken off by hand, it will be so smooth before you do this that it won't even matter which wax you use. I either use the 3M wax made for cars (AWESOME WAX. If you use it on your car, it will still feels slick as snot for WEEKS), or either T Wax by Armada. I try to stay away from all that crap with silicone in it. I've found that unless you super strip it before you go to wax it in the future, it has compatibility problems with anything but similar silicone waxes.

I detail boats for a living, and I've dealt with some tough POS finishes.

Since you probably don't have any of that stuff, and it would probably run you close to 100-120 or so, if you already have a buffer, i'd probably stick what Xeon said :D
 
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Zeon

Zeon

WNY Crew
Location
Buffalo, NY/ Crystal beach, Ontario
OOOO and orbital buffers DO NOT COUNT! :p

i love when i hear.. oo i just buffed my black car and it looks amazing.. im like BULL EFFING SHYOT! i look at there "buffer" the vibrating foam wheel... ya.. thats NOT a buffer


kennay ever use trizac?
 
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Kennay

Squarenose for the _____
Location
Myrtle Beach, SC
xeon said:
OOOO and orbital buffers DO NOT COUNT! :p

i love when i hear.. oo i just buffed my black car and it looks amazing.. im like BULL EFFING SHYOT! i look at there "buffer" the vibrating foam wheel... ya.. thats NOT a buffer


kennay ever use trizac?
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Nope, never used it. What is it used for? Looks to be a type of sand paper? When I have to wet sand something, I just use regular ol' sandpaper.
 
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Zeon

Zeon

WNY Crew
Location
Buffalo, NY/ Crystal beach, Ontario
trizac is like wetsanding with 3000 grit on a DA sander.. you have to have a good palm one though to do it.. and that makes buffing out any wetsanding 100 times easier. its quick easier and makes life easy.. we use it after painting cars at my old shop.. and i dont do enough paint work to invest into the pad system
 
jetx

jetx

Location
Midland, Ontario, Canada
Is there a big difference between a buffer with two speeds and one that is variable speed...in otherwords, do I really need the adjustability of 600-3000RPM or is a low speed of approx 1300 and high speed of approx 1600 alright??
 
Dustin Mustangs

Dustin Mustangs

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Location
Holland, MI
I'll tell ya what, I've had some real bad experiences with cheap buffers. Like them not even spinning once you apply any type of compound and put it agianst the work surface. All it would do is the orbital motion, no spin-spin. What a piece of junk. Granted, this was not one of the HF offerings, but I can't imagine they are much diff.

After I realized how much it would cost to get a decent buffer, I spent $40 on a 3 step fiberglass restoration kit from meguiars. Took maybe 2 hours and some elbow grease but the end result was amazing. And it's still holding up good after a solid season of use. I keep meaning to put up some before and afters of my used-to-be-faded red blaster but that hasn't happend yet...

http://marinerv.meguiars.com/product/Specialty-Kits/Fiberglass-Restoration-System
 
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Kennay

Squarenose for the _____
Location
Myrtle Beach, SC
Dont buy a cheap buffer, it WILL NOT last. I'm not talking it won't last for years, I'm saying it may not last minutes. There is ALOT of strain on it.
 
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