tuscarora dave
"Luck" Residue of design
Hi to all. Yesterday Barry Theal gave me some HD UNO to play around with. I told my good friend about getting a new product to play around with and he offered up his newly purchased old BMW E-30 as a test subject for today's trial. Overall I am impressed with the way that HD UNO worked out on this red single stage paint. This to my surprise was pretty hard paint for single stage and as you will see it was very oxidized too. The HD UNO is amazing in how it did not dust at all. Usually when someone tells me that a compound doesn't dust at all, the reality of it is that it doesn't dust much. HD UNO really doesn't dust at all!! That's a first in my experience.
While I am a very open minded person who goes outside of the box on a regular basis in many areas of my life, I am still somewhat set in my ways so many of you more experienced HD UNO users may tell me that I used way too much product on this maiden voyage trial of the product. I got my friend to agree to drive the car around like this for a week and show it to anyone who will look at it and then told him I would finish the rest of the car next weekend. The photos will do most of the talking from here.
Here's the test subject, a 1988 BMW E-30 with original single stage red paint on some panels including my test panel.
The photo above is the best that I could get HD UNO to finish for me on my first time using it. Just to clarify things a little about the amount of product that I used, I used the amounts pictured to buff the entire half of the hood except for with the wool pad cutting step where with all the oxidation I had to spur the pad and add more product a few times as would be expected. All the foam pad work I only loaded the pad one time with product and worked the entire half of the hood.
On the final finishing attempt using the flex and PRO final finishing pad I could not get it to finish without hazing and a lot of micro scratches present in the finish. My pad was clean and was just stained from working on a black single stage car. I tried again and shrunk my working section down to about 15 square inches running the flex at full speed for 4 slow section passes and then reduced the speed in half for an additional 2 slow section passes but the results were the same so I switched to a brand new pad and finished it with M-205 and waxed with AutoGlym HD Wax. Here are the final results.
I did a lot of reading here about HD UNO last night and had seen a lot of you trying this product also having a hard time finishing with it but then also read a few claiming to have mastered finishing with this product with some practice and tweaks in technique and nailing the right pad selection. Others said that they would continue to try and so will I. I would have liked to have tried out the HD Poxy that Barry gave me but I wanted to wash this entire car after playing around with this test and was afraid that I would wash the HD Poxy back off in doing so. When I do the rest of this car I intend on not only practicing some more at finishing with HD UNO but to try out the HD Poxy as well. Thanks again Barry for being so generous in giving me these products and thanks to the rest of you for reading through this thread.
To the moderators, If I posted this in the wrong section I apologize for doing so and feel free to move it to the correct location.
While I am a very open minded person who goes outside of the box on a regular basis in many areas of my life, I am still somewhat set in my ways so many of you more experienced HD UNO users may tell me that I used way too much product on this maiden voyage trial of the product. I got my friend to agree to drive the car around like this for a week and show it to anyone who will look at it and then told him I would finish the rest of the car next weekend. The photos will do most of the talking from here.
Here's the test subject, a 1988 BMW E-30 with original single stage red paint on some panels including my test panel.
The photo above is the best that I could get HD UNO to finish for me on my first time using it. Just to clarify things a little about the amount of product that I used, I used the amounts pictured to buff the entire half of the hood except for with the wool pad cutting step where with all the oxidation I had to spur the pad and add more product a few times as would be expected. All the foam pad work I only loaded the pad one time with product and worked the entire half of the hood.
On the final finishing attempt using the flex and PRO final finishing pad I could not get it to finish without hazing and a lot of micro scratches present in the finish. My pad was clean and was just stained from working on a black single stage car. I tried again and shrunk my working section down to about 15 square inches running the flex at full speed for 4 slow section passes and then reduced the speed in half for an additional 2 slow section passes but the results were the same so I switched to a brand new pad and finished it with M-205 and waxed with AutoGlym HD Wax. Here are the final results.
I did a lot of reading here about HD UNO last night and had seen a lot of you trying this product also having a hard time finishing with it but then also read a few claiming to have mastered finishing with this product with some practice and tweaks in technique and nailing the right pad selection. Others said that they would continue to try and so will I. I would have liked to have tried out the HD Poxy that Barry gave me but I wanted to wash this entire car after playing around with this test and was afraid that I would wash the HD Poxy back off in doing so. When I do the rest of this car I intend on not only practicing some more at finishing with HD UNO but to try out the HD Poxy as well. Thanks again Barry for being so generous in giving me these products and thanks to the rest of you for reading through this thread.
To the moderators, If I posted this in the wrong section I apologize for doing so and feel free to move it to the correct location.
