removing wetsanding scratches by hand

midnightrider said:
Don’t be confused son. I do have the balls to try something new. And I followed the proper procedure. And some people just detail by hand. So don’t hate the non-buffers. Don’t be a anti-byhandtite. I was trying to get to bunch of small scratched out of the trunk and very lightly wetsanded it. It worked very well but I can see a little haze from the wetsanding it’s self. So I needed to know what products people recommended. I’m going to try this by hand and if it does not look right I will bring it to a local detailer to use his buffer and experience to fix it 100%.



Thanks to everyone else for their recommendations and help with the proper procedures.
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Only reason I'm anti-hand is because i used to polish by hand - spend like 15hrs on the bloody car and it would never look 100%, not maybe 75%, if that.



Thanks to autopia I still spend 15hrs on a car ( :rofl ), but atleast it's 100% :D
 
efnfast said:
Only reason I'm anti-hand is because i used to polish by hand - spend like 15hrs on the bloody car and it would never look 100%, not maybe 75%, if that.



Thanks to autopia I still spend 15hrs on a car ( :rofl ), but atleast it's 100% :D
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That's cool. And your right. By hand you will never get to 100%. I would like to use a buffer but I don't know anyone who can teach me to use it. And that's really the key.
 
Buy a cyclo - it's completely noob friendly and safe. The only thing to learn on it are pressure and number of passes, which you'll pick up after 1 or 2 panels.....you can learn that yourself quite quickly.



a cyclo, some orange and green pads, 4'' pfw pads, and white pads, with some gloss-it products (extreme cut and machine gloss) will have you sailing and doing excellent corrections.



orange/green/pfw+extreme cut for initial correction work, then green+machien gloss as a final polish, then white+wax and you're golden.



I can understand wanting to be tought with a rotary or flex - heck, I accidently burned paint with my flex 3401 on my first use (doing something really stupid, totally my fault for believing the 'it's completely safe' mantra I've seen so many times). ..... with a cyclo you'd REALLY have to go out of your way to damage paint. And by really, I honestly have no idea what yuo'd have to do - I've put on yellow pads on it and cranked down maximum pressure on a test (plastic) panel for a solid minute and I hadn't burned the paint at all.
 
midnightrider said:
Cool thanks, I check them out :xyxthumbs. Which model would you recommend as it looks like they have a few?
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If you're not in Europe you want the Model 5. My all-time favorite polisher, even if I do use the Flex a lot more these days. Don't hesitate to buy used, even the most beat-up example will be a good choice and (rarely required) rebuilds are inexpensive.
 
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