scary Bill- Thanks for not taking my post the wrong way. I sometimes get a bit exasperated when really serious detailers suggest "expert-level" approaches to newbies, who I feel are likely to just say "oh, forget it...", and I didn't mean to take out my frustration on you or anyone else in particular.
Yeah, we all have our favorite machines; mine is the Cyclo, I simply like it better than either of my rotaries
I agree about the PC, I don't like using that vibration-machine much either but I put up with it for small spot-repairs.
And yeah, sometimes even the white LC pad is just a bit too aggressive. Much as I generally prefer polishing pads to finishing ones, sometimes only the softest pad is gonna work.
When I've had *super* soft paint (it was a repaint that took forever to cure/harden) that even #80 hazed up, I used Griot's Machine Polish #3 and it worked OK. Worked a lot better by Cyclo than by PC though, and by PC it worked best with 4" pads (which is generally true IME).
Hmm..I wonder if the pad size might make a difference
I've just hardly *ever* got those pigtail marring marks from a PC and maybe it's because I almost always use 4" pads with mine.
I think the 1Z High Gloss would work OK for this, but I don't work on super-soft paint hardly at all so I don't really know. I'd be astounded if the 1Z Metallic Polish didn't work, and some people have found it has enough cut for mild correction on soft paint. And it'd probably fill the mildest marring anyhow. Ditto for products like Autoglym SRP.
Back in the day, there were some black lacquers that were *SOFT*, and we were able to get 'em OK by hand, with some pretty crude products- "hand rubbed lacquer" and all that.