An invitation to those of you in the Orange County CA, Costa Mesa area.

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imported_WhyteWizard

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Aug 21/2012 Good for a short time only.



Tomorrow, I'm going to be doing a paint correction and full detail on an older Rolls Royce. The car is black, has a lot of problems, scratches, oxidation and water spots. The stainless grill had gouges, but I cut those out today. In any case. If any of you would like to come by for a visit and see the work in progress and what the car looks like when it's finished, PM me and I'll give you the address.



I use a high speed polisher and follow up with the Makita BO6040 to remove the swirls but this would be a good car for someone to show me something as well.



Robert
 
I got the car done about 3:00 yesterday and the videos on their way. Sorry to be so slow. The car was seriously beat up, had been sitting outside for years and it looked like someone had almost keyed the hood. Needless to say, full correction was not an option but the improvement was pretty dramatic.



I'm getting video editing software today so I can put together better quality in the future.



Thanks all,

Robert
 
Kevin Brown said:
Very nice of you to make this sort of offer.
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Thanks Kevin,



If you're in town a few days maybe we can get together and compare notes.



Here's some of what I was doing on that Rolls. The car turned out to be a serious challenge, some of the scratches on the hood were like it had been keyed - not altogether sure it wasn't - but overall the car came out OK but not spectacular.








All the best,



Robert
 
Greg Nichols said:
:wow::cry:



So the heat was able to flow the paint back into the scratches, thus heat is your friend?



Cheers,

GREG
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Greg,



If you watch me polishing with my rotary, you see me moving the machine a bit faster than is typical for a couple of reasons: I don't let the machine heat the paint too much, and I can see through the light residue of polish and see the scratches. When the ones I think should be removed have been, I move on. I work the polish in the pad* (not rolling around on the paint) except for that little trail of residue that's left on the paint as I move left to right. This is different from using a random orbital with a lot of product that leaves a layer of polish on the paint that has to be removed or at least finished completely down to see if the defects have been removed. This does leave a swirl mark, but I handle that with the dual action Makita.



When I use the dual action Makita in forced rotation mode, again, I try to use the polish in the pad* not rolling around on the paint because I get a faster finish and higher gloss since the abrasives are held in the pad and are running against the paint, again, not rolling around on it.



If you wouldn't mind, show me where I said I was able to flow the paint back into the scratches because I can't recall saying that. I do remember saying I think you can tell how much real work is being done by the amount of heat generated - all other factors being equal, pressure on pad, the kind of pad the type and amount of abrasive, the surface that's being worked, etc. I've mentioned this in comparing dual action - true forced rotation elliptical machines with random orbitals.



Since I've tested the temperature of the panel while I'm polishing by having a friend use a non-contact infrared thermometer while I was working and running the heat up higher than I would normally ever go and that temp was only 138 degrees F. I'm very confident that I, in fact, don't flow the paint back into the scratches. I look forward to you finding where I said I could because I can only guess that marks the last time I had a beer.



Robert
 
Greg,



As I said, the only reference to heat I can remember making is the one I pointed out.



Leaving several periods at the end of your sentence implies that I've said it other times. As far as I can recall, I've never said paint can be re-flowed. I know people who say they can and even a couple who think I can because they've watched me work, but I don't believe that's what's happening. So, let me be more clear in my question to you:



Where did you come up with your post: "So the heat was able to flow the paint back into the scratches, thus heat is your friend?"



Robert
 
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