3 Old Guys With Buffers :) Black car in FL Sun

Ronkh

Ronkh

Wax Waster
So once upon a time, there were 3 old guys, a boat load of products, machines, a black plastic/fiber glass car and the Florida Sun. :redface:


Day one (by myself)

Decon Wash - PB SSS, + PB APC + a little dawn (yeah yeah)

Iron X

Clay - Riccardo Yellow - PB Spray and wipe as lube

PB Mitt, PB bug micro, BF bug sponge, LC new fangled whatever sponge

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Re wash, PB SSS
 
Steve with the griots (I think)

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Me with SSR-1 & flex - done panel

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Steve getting low................

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After Ang got done with the hood

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and rear deck
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and top

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Ang using Rupes

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Refining the hood

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That's better

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Fini

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Then wiped down with Reload and put to bed for the night
 
Stuff used

PB SSR 2.5
PB SSR 1

M -101
M 105
Rupes polishes

With the heat and FL sun, after the first few passes, the other polishes were pretty much dust, and we used PB SSR's. It gave us the results we wanted and laughed at the sun/heat

Flex
Rupes
Griots
Ang's rotary

Assorted pads

We also gave it a bath after polishing - PB SSS in foam gun, ad 2 bm w PB SSS
CarPro Eraser
CQuatz UK
 
Wow, absolutely beautiful, stunning, perfect work !!!!!
Los Tres Amigos ! ! !

I bet that flawless paintwork will temporarily blind you when you look at it in the sun !!!

Thanks Dudes !!!
Dan F
 
Stokdgs said:
Wow, absolutely beautiful, stunning, perfect work !!!!!
Los Tres Amigos ! ! !

I bet that flawless paintwork will temporarily blind you when you look at it in the sun !!!

Thanks Dudes !!!
Dan F
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Thanks. It was fun. Ang and Steve are great playmates :)
 
I was surprised at how soft the paint was. until we dialed in the pads and polish, it was very easy leave halos with the buffers and and even scratches when removing the polish with microfiber towels. there was a constant process of moving the vette into the sunlight to see any defects and back into the garage to work. I picked up a lot of good info from angelo and ron.
I used my griot's 3" da for the smaller areas, but soon learned that the megs mf finishing pad generated too much heat for the work we were doing and switched back to a wht.lc foam pad. I was truly shocked when I got to use ron's rupes mini, what an awesome machine, extremely smooth, with very little vibration compared to my griot's. all the final finish work was done with the rupes mini and ron's flex da. angelo switched between his Makita rotary and the da's without batting an eye.( tons of experience makes it look easy)
the guys definitely wouldn't accept any results that weren't excellent. hard work, but lots of fun too.:rockon
 
tropicsteve said:
I was surprised at how soft the paint was. until we dialed in the pads and polish, it was very easy leave halos with the buffers and and even scratches when removing the polish with microfiber towels. there was a constant process of moving the vette into the sunlight to see any defects and back into the garage to work. I picked up a lot of good info from angelo and ron.
I used my griot's 3" da for the smaller areas, but soon learned that the megs mf finishing pad generated too much heat for the work we were doing and switched back to a wht.lc foam pad. I was truly shocked when I got to use ron's rupes mini, what an awesome machine, extremely smooth, with very little vibration compared to my griot's. all the final finish work was done with the rupes mini and ron's flex da. angelo switched between his Makita rotary and the da's without batting an eye.( tons of experience makes it look easy)
the guys definitely wouldn't accept any results that weren't excellent. hard work, but lots of fun too.:rockon
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Buffing outside garage, in garage, outside....

uhhhhhhh
 
Great job. You guys are brave for working in direct sunlight. I never have luck with the Florida sun and polishing. I can see why you did it though. Looking great!
 
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