Tried out the new hitachi rotary on my white 91 acura legend. I bought this car back in oct and never had a chance to polish it. The previous owner had it repainted back in 97. It had a good amount of swirls. GTScott was giving me a hand.
Start with a yellow excel pad, the 6" BP and some menzerna PG. I think I was in the 1100-1200 rage just trying to get comfortable on the hood. I worked the PG for a little while, checking the heat every once in a while. Was not getting much heat or reduction in the swirls. So after 3 passes, Scott suggested that I move up to the orange pad and dial up the speed to approx 1500. After working the PG a little while longer it was starting to built up some heat on the surface (warm). Back the car out into the sun and was finally starting to see some results. Did the hood, roof and trunk. It still took about 2 passes and I would say we got about 75% of the swirls out. We where using some light stands in the garage later in the evening. Time was running out so Scott used the PC with FPII top go over the entire car and I applied a single coat of Werkstatts CJ.
I will continue to work on this car over the next few weeks.
Should I try a wool pad or something else with a little more cut? Still seemed like a slow process, but I'm sure I could not get these results from a PC.
Got some buffer hopping and that seemed to be from the pad getting loaded up from too much PG. Changing out the pads often seemed to help this. I did not feel that I was using too much PG, but working with white its hard to tell. The slinging did not seem that bad. I did have alot of dust.
On the lower panels it seemed hard to control the rotary.
Thanks for any tips! :up
Start with a yellow excel pad, the 6" BP and some menzerna PG. I think I was in the 1100-1200 rage just trying to get comfortable on the hood. I worked the PG for a little while, checking the heat every once in a while. Was not getting much heat or reduction in the swirls. So after 3 passes, Scott suggested that I move up to the orange pad and dial up the speed to approx 1500. After working the PG a little while longer it was starting to built up some heat on the surface (warm). Back the car out into the sun and was finally starting to see some results. Did the hood, roof and trunk. It still took about 2 passes and I would say we got about 75% of the swirls out. We where using some light stands in the garage later in the evening. Time was running out so Scott used the PC with FPII top go over the entire car and I applied a single coat of Werkstatts CJ.
I will continue to work on this car over the next few weeks.
Should I try a wool pad or something else with a little more cut? Still seemed like a slow process, but I'm sure I could not get these results from a PC.
Got some buffer hopping and that seemed to be from the pad getting loaded up from too much PG. Changing out the pads often seemed to help this. I did not feel that I was using too much PG, but working with white its hard to tell. The slinging did not seem that bad. I did have alot of dust.
On the lower panels it seemed hard to control the rotary.
Thanks for any tips! :up
Just takes a little more time and some patience.
