Couple of questions

[8Banger]

Well, I cleaned the garage enough to pull the stang in, which I did. I have the halos that were on sale form Black Friday. I know theres spider webbing on my hood and a ton of scratches from when my friend ran his fingers across my pollen filled hood like 8 months ago. But, I can't see the webbing or the scratches under my halos with floro lights on the cealing. What gives? I CAN see the scratches under parking lot lights though. I went ahead and did this to 1 side of my hood:



clay

OD light polish on White pad

OD wet glaze on Grey finishing pad

opti-seal



The products were kind of dusting, is this because I had the halos too close and it was causing the products to dry out?

How should I position the lights where I can get better lighting and less heat on the surface?

When I was working I had both lights on, but on the low setting, after working my products I bumped the lights up to the high setting, but still couldn't see the imperfections before or after application.



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Btw, my pads were all 6.5" LCC pads





Thanks for your help, guys.

 

[MattPersman]

I know you are supposed to be able to use the light polish in the sun even, so halogen lighting should not be a problem. And the glaze should just about melt into the paint.



too much or too little product? not sure what Justin recommends speed wise on his products.

 

[8Banger]

the polish was dusting, but just a tiny bit - i've heard all polishes will dust no matter what



i was working the polish on speed 6 after spreading it on speed 3

my problem might be too much product and working it too long :nixweiss







the glaze worked out great, i just worked until it disappeared on speed 4



but i still can't see my imperfections under the lights..what gives??

 

[Accumulator]

.. I can't see the webbing or the scratches under my halos with floro lights on the cealing. What gives? I CAN see the scratches under parking lot lights though. ...When I was working I had both lights on, but on the low setting, after working my products I bumped the lights up....

A few things come to mind.



First, turn off the fluorescents when you do your inspection. It's not enough to just have the other lights on too, you gotta kill the fluorescents, period.



Inspecting in an otherwise dark shop is the way to go (it's related to something like "dark field.."....uhm...dark field.. *something*, sorry I forget... ). You don't want any lights on except for your inspection light(s).



Second, brighter isn't always better. You might do better with the halogens on the lower setting. It's not about brightness, but rather about "point source lighting" and a certain type of contrast.



FWIW, I can't see certain types of marring under halogens, but I see the same stuff quite clearly under old-fashioned incandescents. I have ~300W incandescnets in the shop for this (both ceiling mounted and hand held), but even the 60W bare bulbs in my other garage's ceiling mounts show marring just great.



Incandescents are "point source" illumination..the sorta-spherical bulbs are, for instance, more like the sun (and the gas station lights) than the tube-type bulbs in halogens (let alone the long tubes in fluorescents). You still gotta play around with different illumination and viewing angles/distances, but since I switched to incandescents for my final inspection I've no longer had any unpleasant surprises at gas stations at night, even on tough-to-inspect colors like silver.



Lowe's sells a cheap incandescent trouble light. I got the high-wattage model (~$25) but the lower wattage one might work fine. But again, you still have to play around with it to see stuff. On silver, I might spend several minutes checking out a small area before I find some light marring, and *a few minutes* is a *LONG* time to look at a foot-square area of paint Heh heh, once I turn away for a moment, I might have to start all over again to find that marring again so I can start polishing it! So I smear a dab of polish/etc. on the flaws when I see them so I don't have to remember where they are.