imported_WCD
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It's been a while since I posted. I hope all is well with my fellow Autopians this year.
Last week I received a distress call from a friend. Short version.... jealous woman spray painted her car with angry female vulgarities. This was black paint on a metallic/champagne SUV.
Being that she has kids and worried they would see, she and some friends quickly grabbed some sponges from the kitchen and went to work. She called to state that the paint came off (mostly), but where they scrubbed, well you get the picture. I arrive. You can read the words because they used the "other" side of the sponges. Marring was the least of my concerns since 1500 paper did not remove what they did.
She does not have money to spend on this so she pleaded, "The words just can't be visible to my kids."
Here is what I did-
2000 by hand over letters and 1500 in some areas. This removed the rest of the black "splats" easily and worked on the deeper scratches.
UNO with yellow foam on Flex- OK for shine, but under lights...still scratched.
I took to the new wool UNO pad that has been on my shelf for months. Speed about 5- 5.5 and PRESSURE. 2 applications made it incredible. Now, up ultra close, you can faintly see some very fine lines here and there, but remember she wanted to pay less than $500. I was thinking to make it perfect would be about 1k in time and materials.
Followed with green foam.
She says it looks better than when she bought it since it took out older surface defects.
I still have to do 3" areas around the door frames (need a new 3" backing plate), but for 5.5 hrs. of work, I was very pleased.
I wish I had taken pics, but this was done in secrecy due to the nature of the situation.
The wool pad shed for quite a while even after using my pad tool, but it worked great and I'll be getting more.
My shoulder hurts as well as some muscles in my legs- roller hockey on 2 teams doesn't leave me this sore.
Enjoy your weekend! Finally getting some rain.
PS- If you are attending Earth Day in SB, we'll have a booth with our towels and will demo nearly waterless washing. Drop on by!
Rob
Last week I received a distress call from a friend. Short version.... jealous woman spray painted her car with angry female vulgarities. This was black paint on a metallic/champagne SUV.
Being that she has kids and worried they would see, she and some friends quickly grabbed some sponges from the kitchen and went to work. She called to state that the paint came off (mostly), but where they scrubbed, well you get the picture. I arrive. You can read the words because they used the "other" side of the sponges. Marring was the least of my concerns since 1500 paper did not remove what they did.
She does not have money to spend on this so she pleaded, "The words just can't be visible to my kids."
Here is what I did-
2000 by hand over letters and 1500 in some areas. This removed the rest of the black "splats" easily and worked on the deeper scratches.
UNO with yellow foam on Flex- OK for shine, but under lights...still scratched.
I took to the new wool UNO pad that has been on my shelf for months. Speed about 5- 5.5 and PRESSURE. 2 applications made it incredible. Now, up ultra close, you can faintly see some very fine lines here and there, but remember she wanted to pay less than $500. I was thinking to make it perfect would be about 1k in time and materials.
Followed with green foam.
She says it looks better than when she bought it since it took out older surface defects.
I still have to do 3" areas around the door frames (need a new 3" backing plate), but for 5.5 hrs. of work, I was very pleased.
I wish I had taken pics, but this was done in secrecy due to the nature of the situation.
The wool pad shed for quite a while even after using my pad tool, but it worked great and I'll be getting more.
My shoulder hurts as well as some muscles in my legs- roller hockey on 2 teams doesn't leave me this sore.
Enjoy your weekend! Finally getting some rain.
PS- If you are attending Earth Day in SB, we'll have a booth with our towels and will demo nearly waterless washing. Drop on by!
Rob
