wool pads...which ones....which cutting polish

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looking for some wool pads...which ones are the good ones to use...i have used some in the past, and they sucked!!!



also, what polish should I go with....menzerna, hi-temp, optimum, meguiars...???

looking for something to step up my game when the bad cars come out, and looking to speed up my details...



thanks



eric
 
i used a wool pad on a craftsman polisher about 4 years ago...dont remember the name...but its wasnt the best....



i was thinking about the hitemp...ryan has good results from it, so i might give it a go
 
any closer distributors for top of the line...i was going to order a gallon of extreme cut, and its 10 bucks to ship it....anything closer...or better yet, anything else I should get from them to help offset the cost of shipping?
 
toyotaguy said:
looking for some wool pads...which ones are the good ones to use...i have used some in the past, and they sucked!!!
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Eric - I've used lots of different wool pads throughout the years and I still favor the Yellow (polishing) and White (cutting) ones sold through Auto Magic. I've purchased 100's of them and never had one that was off-center. They also seem to last the longest too. I don't like any of the double sided ones out there because they don't feel secure/firm enough to me. Make sure to buy a good spur and clean off as much of the excess fibers before you start using a new one. As far as polishes to use, that will depend on the job/finish. There's alot of variables out there with respect to correction and each product works really different in each situation.
 
David, I contacted them (Auto Magic) and my nearest distributor is about 4 hours away! Could you suggest a second choice - one available either at a on-line store like Edge/Meg's or something like 3M (available at my local CarQuest). Thanks, and FWIW, I have a wool compound and wool polish pad that came with my Makita - they look fine but I'm not ready to try them without a little advice from you!
 
JuneBug said:
David, I contacted them (Auto Magic) and my nearest distributor is about 4 hours away! Could you suggest a second choice - one available either at a on-line store like Edge/Meg's or something like 3M (available at my local CarQuest). Thanks, and FWIW, I have a wool compound and wool polish pad that came with my Makita - they look fine but I'm not ready to try them without a little advice from you!
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I PM'd you Auto Magic's largest distributor's #(Brian Ward). He'll send you anything you need and it will be much cheaper than other distributors/re-sellers.



I'm not sure about the ones that came with your Makita. I always bought polishers bare and added the accessories. Try them is see. Just practice good technique.
 
Hmmm...I'm following this thread too. As I play around with the M3 I'm doing many, many passes with the H-T EC/orange or yellow/1500 or higher/some pressure. And when I say "many, many passes" I don't mean just five or six! I hardly ever do something this bad, and I'm gonna end up having it painted anyhow, but *MAN* is it frustrating to spend literally hours with even the rotary. Gives me a whole new appreciation for what the Pros on these boards have to do all the time.
 
Accumulator said:
Hmmm...I'm following this thread too. As I play around with the M3 I'm doing many, many passes with the H-T EC/orange or yellow/1500 or higher/some pressure. And when I say "many, many passes" I don't mean just five or six! I hardly ever do something this bad, and I'm gonna end up having it painted anyhow, but *MAN* is it frustrating to spend literally hours with even the rotary. Gives me a whole new appreciation for what the Pros on these boards have to do all the time.
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WOW! What year is the m3?
 
If you're going to repaint anyhow, why not try wool and let us know how it went. Like Ross Perot once said,"I'm all ears"!
 
rydawg said:
WOW! What year is the m3?
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It's a '97. Funny that it's such a huge job, it doesn't look all *that* bad and I'm used to hard clear on the Audis :nixweiss



JuneBug- I don't have any decent wool pads around and I'm up in the air about how much more effort I'm gonna put into it anyhow. I want it to look OK when my mechanic wraps up his work on it prior to the painting though, and it might be a good candidate for trying something new and different....we'll see what I end up doing. I haven't used wool pads on a rotary since the days of single stage.
 
well i bit the bullet and got the hitemp EC and menzerna IP since I was out of that....shipping stayed the same, so now I dont feel so bad for paying 10 bucks shipping...lol



just need the wool pads to play with...
 
Accumulator said:
It's a '97. Funny that it's such a huge job, it doesn't look all *that* bad and I'm used to hard clear on the Audis :nixweiss



JuneBug- I don't have any decent wool pads around and I'm up in the air about how much more effort I'm gonna put into it anyhow. I want it to look OK when my mechanic wraps up his work on it prior to the painting though, and it might be a good candidate for trying something new and different....we'll see what I end up doing. I haven't used wool pads on a rotary since the days of single stage.
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I must have to say that I do hate VW's and Audi's for their hard paint. A pc really works it's hardest on these paints. That's funny since the single stage days...A rotory and wool on single stage is a pure mess and is a bit@$. Clear coats are much easier with wool.



Do you have a picture?
 
rydawg- Nah, no pics. I'm still digital-imaging ignorant :o And the weird thing is that I'd have to work at it to show the marring in question. Seems like it shouldn't be this big of a deal. Generally, I like hard clear, guess I'm just not used to fixing 10 years' worth of it being somebody else's daily driver (I suspect that the New England winters were especially rough on it, judging by how the undercarriage was). In some areas, by the time I got all the marring out, I'd visibly thinned the clear too much, you can see (well, if you *really* work at it) how the paint is slightly lighter/more metallic. I'm spoiled...I won't settle for "just OK" on this particular vehicle because I think the paint is so pretty, so my painter gets some work. And this was supposed to be my beater car :o



Oddly enough I liked working single stage with a rotary...I generally like ss better than b/c..but then I'm an old-school kind of guy (or maybe just old period ;) ). But yeah, dark blue and black cars made for a royal mess.



toyotaguy- Which pads do you plan to use with the H-T EC?
 
Back in the 70's when I use to sand cars before the painters did their thing, it was enamel for Fords and lacguar for Chevy's. That meant after the Chevy's dried, the painter compounded with a wool pad and a lot of orange colored compound (not sure of the brand) then I got to go over the whole thing with Fill-n-Glaze which we called Pink Panther Piss cause it was pink and smelled like urine. I don't recall any swirls or marks, probably due to my expert sanding! And if anybody thinks detailing is hard, try sanding a whole car, then doing it again after primer, again after sealer and then taping up everthing before paint. Damn, I sure had a lot of energy when I was a kid. Ya'll keep going with the wool pad stuff, I'm glad to know everything ain't changed.
 
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