Wet sanding clear coat...with lots of photos!

[hemi-hampton]

If you did the whole entire vehicle in 8 hours & another 2 rubbing I think thats pretty good, fast. Or was that just half the vehicle LEON.

[AKcharger]

Nope, whole thing. Did it last Friday

[superbirdtom]

A friend of mine is such a good polisher that lots of his restoration business is just polishing cars. The owner has the car painted at a shop and then they take it to jimmys shop to have him block and polish it . it takes him about a week or two to do it. but it is perfectly flat and looks like glass.  he uses a product called RACERS.  he requires 4 coats minimum of clear be put on as one and a half coats will be sanded off.

                                                     Right now he is painting and polishing a black 64 grand prix 421 tripower 4 speed car I guess their very rare. did you do your final polish with a foam pad??    I use a 3-M blue waffle velcro pad with some 3-m blue finish swirl remover as my final. it makes a huge difference jut when you think it can't get any better. I use a flex -50 buffer . Some guys still use air buffers, they went the way of the dinosaur back in the mid 80,s.  looks like your truck turned out pretty good! lord I hate buffing anymore. I am going to try the trizek system sometime just for crash jobs I heard its pretty fast.   

[AKcharger]

I used a Meguires pad (a red one) the paint shop suggested, seemed to work good. I suspect I could have made it a lot better but as I mentioned before the body isn't razor stright so don't mind a lil' OP

[Silver R/T]

I bought a SOLO kit by Meguiar's. It comes complete with backing pad, cutting wool pads, polishing pad and finessing pad. Also included is universal cutting/polishing compound. I found it works pretty good for me

[hemi-hampton]

If you started with 400 grit on a block like you say then that should of eliminated any orange peel real quick LEON.

[AKcharger]

If you started with 400 grit on a block like you say then that should of eliminated any orange peel real quick LEON.

It did...I could have went farther but was happy with result...slightly more orange peel then you'd find on a new car.