This is a Corvette that I did in NY customer waited two months after painted for me to come and fix. Heavy peel. Used 1000 grit 3m then 1500 3m Extra cut compound and 3m wool pad Customer took the car the rest of the way. Pictures only reflect sand and compound. Very hard to sand and buff this venting in the hood. Car had such bad orange peel that it block the car from shining Completely sanded and ready to buff The customer was very happy. Thanks
Wish I could help ya Bud^^^^^^^^^^^^Can't figure it out myself or I would be showing out also :whistle:
They need to be hosted on photobucket and resized as to not be obnoxious in size, I just tried it with your current photo and its giant
Wow that is a bad paint job :shakehead: I'm curious and please don't take my question the wrong way or think that I'm being disrespectful in any way because I'm not, I'm just curious. I enjoy wet sanding and I wet sand when ever I can but I'm always paranoid about how much clear coat I'm removing, I'm currently working on a vehicle that the owner wet sanded him self because he wanted to remove the orange peal but he wet sanded so much that the went through the clear, through the paint and into the metal...I know...I know but any who when your wet sanding do you use a paint gauge to guide you? The reason I ask is because you can only remove so much and once you go too far well you get results like the vehicle I'm currently working on. I mean, you remove 'x' amount of clear coat via wet sanding, then you have to come back and compound it again removing 'x' amount of clear coat and the finishing steps are very minor but even then your still removing 'x' amount of clear coat. I'm just curious how you gauge the surface that's all, I literally gauge by using my paint gauges. Just curious how you do it that's all...and like I said not trying to put you on the spot or anything like that, there are many many techniques on 'gauging' the surface, I've been shown a few here and there but I'm always hungry for more if you know what I mean Also why not use a DA sander? Oh by the way, love the lift :druling: :druling:
Ok. I do use a DA on production cars. Classics and customs I choose to had sand them because I enjoy the ability of doing something not many can do. My clients are looking for flat and flat is what I give them all the way to the edge. We do have gauges and use them when we feel the need. Not to sound like a smart ass. You know how far to go from just doing so many.
Well that doesn't help..but I do know what you mean, around town I got the opportunity to meet and learn a bit of an old timer that has been detailing for as long as I have been living, no joke..any who he was wet sanding a vehicle, no gauges...no gadgets, nothing just his sanding paper a bucket of water and his hands. Any who I asked him how he knew when he had removed enough, he kept wet sanding and when he removed the orange peal he showed me what it looked like...hard to describe but the surface just looked flat. Then I asked him if he knew how much clear he removed the said approximately 7 to 10microns...the shop where he was working had a gauge I was able to use it and my jaw dropped when I measured an area where it hadn't been wet sanded or touched compared it to where he had most recently wet sanded and sure enough it was within that range. Any who I kept asking question after question after question...some of his answers were just that "you just know". The point is that you just can't explain experience, wish it could be explained though :shead: Any who thanks for the feed back.
Carlos, like Perfection has said after doing it for so long like we have you just have the knack for it and to me and I think perfection will agree hand sanding works better.
She's a beauty, great work :applause: :shead: I see you've gotten the hang of posting pic's now:giggle: I tried 1 time for about an hour to post some and got nowhere fast. Finally just said screw it. You give me insperation that maybe 1 day I to can post a pic aranoia:
Carlos that is my goal in wet sanding a car is to make it flat with know peel. That's why the gentleman that you spent time with shared that info. Key for me is to have a small 3m rubber squeegee checking your work constantly till that area is flat and move on to the next panel. Totally agree AR. FG. I cheated on posting pics and I will tell you how. PM me.