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Originally Posted by frankieo
Its a little to scary for me to do!
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RESPONSE TO ALL,
I will get a picture of the fender and post it tomorrow. Pictures of the finished car in a month or six!!! (lazy)
To be honest, I had to clean up a scratch on the top corner of the fender and just got carried away.
I have wet sanded and polished thee previous cars. I did it to my son's 2001 F-150 Supercrew that was dark blue. It had so many swirls and surface scratches that it wouldn't even hardly shine, even after waxing. I couldn't believe the difference! It looked like a brand new paint job....no, better than a brand new paint job. It turned out absolutely beautiful.
The second car I polished out was my red 1970 GTO. When I bought it, the paint was getting to look old and had a lot of orange peel. I'll attach a picture of it. I probably spent about 25-30 hours on it. Luckily the GTO had a base coat/clear coat paint job.
Third one was my son's 69 Chevelle. I'll let the pics speak.
Its actually easier than it looks. Keep the sand paper wet, rinsing it constantly (one little grit can put a deep scratch in the paint). When the surface is smooth (completly dull appearance, no shine at all). Time to get the high speed polisher out. I use a wool pad with a cutting compound. It only takes a half dozen maybe a dozen slow swipes until it starts to polish up, then continue until it has a pretty nice shine (can't run the polisher too fast or move the polisher too slow or you could burn the paint). Then I switch to a foam pad and with a fine polishing compound. (I actually have 3 a stage polishing compound system that I got from the body shop that painted my son's 69 chevelle), but I usually cheat (lazy again) and just use the step #3 compound. Anyway, it takes another half a dozen or so swipes with the foam pad until it begins to shine like glass. It would probably look even better if I used all of the stages of polishing like I'm supposed to, but it looks good to me!
If anyone is trying this for their first time, I definely recommend trying it out on an old car that you really aren't worried about or test it out on a small area on the lower portion of a fender.
One last thing that I am going to have to do if I decide to do the whole car is to purchase a sanding block/pad to use on the flat surfaces. I noticed when I did my GTO, that even after sanding the flat surfaces down where I didn't see any more orange peel, that it was still orange peeled a little after I polished it out. I was told that using your hand to sand flat surfaces will not always get all of the orange peel out.
Thanks for the replies
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