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Blinky

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Just what causes these? I'll polish a panel to what I think is perfection, but when I examine it under critical lighting, these little marks show up. Are they the result of bad technique?
 
Blinky said:
Just what causes these? I'll polish a panel to what I think is perfection, but when I examine it under critical lighting, these little marks show up. Are they the result of bad technique?
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More than likely the result of a bit of imbedded grit or polish residue on the pad or residual dirt on the panel. I inspect and wipe off the pad after every pass before reapplying product. If I see pigtails I switch pads and go over the panel again removing the pigtails. After close inspection I'm frequently unable to find anything in the suspect pad but the corrected results with the fresh pad indicates something was there. YMMV.



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TLMitchell said:
More than likely the result of a bit of imbedded grit or polish residue on the pad or residual dirt on the panel. I inspect and wipe off the pad after every pass before reapplying product. If I see pigtails I switch pads and go over the panel again removing the pigtails. After close inspection I'm frequently unable to find anything in the suspect pad but the corrected results with the fresh pad indicates something was there. YMMV.



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That makes sense. I do get lazy about conditioning my pads between passes. I try to keep the panel clean but apparently need to do better. Thank you.
 
Sometimes pigtails come from the inital bite of a diminishing-abrasive product; the "fresh" abrasives cut the pigtails and the "not fresh"/"slightly broken down" abrasives aren't sufficient to get 'em out. This is generally just a matter of using the wrong product for the paint in question.
 
Accumulator said:
Sometimes pigtails come from the inital bite of a diminishing-abrasive product; the "fresh" abrasives cut the pigtails and the "not fresh"/"slightly broken down" abrasives aren't sufficient to get 'em out. This is generally just a matter of using the wrong product for the paint in question.
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Interesting. Sounds like I'm actually damaging the paint. Perhaps it's time to switch to a fine non-diminishing polish, i.e. M205. Thank you.
 
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