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goherd90

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Ok..I took out the pc with 4" orange lc pad to smooth out bad touch up job I had done the other day. I used with a fairly aggressive Blackfire SRT compound and used at speed 5.....I fear the worst but am hoping my damage is correctable. The pics are horrible but I am sure you'l be able to see the circle marring I left. Did I remove the clearcoat???? Can I repair? I'd be willing to bring to a professional????:mad:



Ugghh



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If thats burning then its pretty light, i bet its just deep micro-marring.



Its VERY possible you burnt the paint with that combo.
 
Well I did feel the area afterwards and it was pretty warm.....so if I burnt the paint then I am screwed??? Is there anything I can try on this or would I need to repaint entire hood!
 
goherd90 said:
Well I did feel the area afterwards and it was pretty warm.....so if I burnt the paint then I am screwed??? Is there anything I can try on this or would I need to repaint entire hood!
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Did it hurt to touch it? Last time I burnt paint (rotary, yellow cut pad, 2000rpm, it was on a scrap panel) it was too hot to touch after. You might have f-ed it up permenantly but probably you didn't - try FPII on a 4" white pad.
 
dshreter said:
You can easily burn paint with a PC? I hadn't heard that before....
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with 4" pads you certainly can, it's pretty aggressive. hopefully, accumulator will chime in...
 
I read a post by accumulator in which he did say you can damage paint with PC....I cannot believe I did this!!!!!!



I felt the area almost immediately after and it was not scorching hot where I could not keep my fingers on it.



Is there a way to definitively tell if I've burnt the paint? If its burnt then I am looking at needing a new paint job correc?



Leave it to me...the first to post pics of of burning paint with a PC



Its strange because when I look real close up under light it DOES NOT APPEAR like the clear coat is damaged...kind of seems like its underneath???
 
Um...you didn't need to actually burn the paint (as in smoke, too hot to touch) to thin out the clear to the point of failure. And sorry to say, it looks like that's what you did...although I'll defer to Timmah's eye if he thinks you didn't. It's just that spot looks a lot smaller than a 4" pad...so it doesn't look like marring to me.
 
I'm a bit confused because I can't figure out the orientation of the pictures and where the "damage" is located and how large it is. Could you take a full(er) view of the car so we can see how large the damage is?
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Um...you didn't need to actually burn the paint (as in smoke, too hot to touch) to thin out the clear to the point of failure. And sorry to say, it looks like that's what you did...although I'll defer to Timmah's eye if he thinks you didn't. It's just that spot looks a lot smaller than a 4" pad...so it doesn't look like marring to me.
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thanks Mike..I was just trying to respond to timmahs post earlier about it when he burnts some paint that it was too hot to touch afterwards.



I may have thinned out the clear to point of failure as you've stated, BUT like I mentioned when I look extremely close up under halogen on a side angle...so I can look to see where good and bad area's kind of meet...the clear seems to unblemished...I don't know maybe I THINNED the clear as you stated, but wouldn't that seem noticeable to the area of good clear?



What are my alternative to try in repair if this is NOT burnt. I'd at least try to give a shot of correcting before assuming its unrepairable and repainting entire hood.
 
How big an area were you working? How big is the "blemish" in relation to the area you were working? If you were really using the SRC compound, maybe it's just hazing, as mikebai said it's kind of hard to see from the pics, what is that, an Acura hood?
 
mikebai1990 said:
I'm a bit confused because I can't figure out the orientation of the pictures and where the "damage" is located and how large it is. Could you take a full(er) view of the car so we can see how large the damage is?
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Sorry its on the drivers side hood near the very end of the hood. The damaged is about the size of a quarter...perhaps just a tide wider on each end.
 
Hm... I'm curious how a 4 inch pad would produce paint burning the size of a quarter... Did you tilt the PC when you were polishing with those pads?
 
Setec Astronomy said:
How big an area were you working? How big is the "blemish" in relation to the area you were working? If you were really using the SRC compound, maybe it's just hazing, as mikebai said it's kind of hard to see from the pics, what is that, an Acura hood?
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How is this picture? It's an 07 Chrysler 300 srt8....



I was only working on that small area as I mentioned in my first post I did a shabby paint touch up job and was trying to smooth down the Bump that I had created with touch up.



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mikebai1990 said:
Hm... I'm curious how a 4 inch pad would produce paint burning the size of a quarter... Did you tilt the PC when you were polishing with those pads?
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I don't think I was tilting the PC? I was using pretty good pressure just moving in that one area very slowly.



Perhaps it was a combination of using compound, a 4 inch orange pad and a pretty decent amount of pressure at speed 5/6 in such a small concentrated area that caused the burning???
 
It also looks like the lubricant from the polish absorbed itself into the paint from heat transfer. With the blackfire polishes, it is possible. Use a finish polish by hand and see what happens.
 
I'm just throwing this out there since I really don't know much about this stuff... but you said you were trying to fix a touch up job, is it possible the touch up paint is crapping out and got spread around or something?
 
It looks like the clear got to hot lifted a little. Too much pressure. Try to polish it out with a

softer pad and a non aggressive polish. See what happens. Good luck.Joe
 
The touch up paint had dried for over a week so I doubt that this is the cause. I will try some polishes by hand. What type of finishing polishes do you recommend?
 
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