Misanthropy
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Anyone know where I can buy some good buffing pads that plug into a drill. Or if they even exist, pads that hook up to an angle grinder. Just don't feel like throwing 200 on an orbital.
Buffing pads
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LeoC2
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Are you looking for foam pads or for fabric bonnets to put over the foam? I make bonnets http://dftowel.com/orderbonnet.html
Misanthropy
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whatever works best for using a stage 3 cutter/swirl remover and then for applying wax. I have no experience with paint besides hand buffing.
jamies98lsc
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you'll want foam if you are going to be doing any compound cutting. but dont use a drill, buy a variable speed 8 inch buffer from harbor freight. its 30 bucks and mine has buffed 10 cars already and has over 400 hours on it and still looks brand new. best 30 bucks i ever spent. i can get you the pads you need for about $12 bucks each i get a discount from a local bodyshop supply. there are 5 colors most people use, black,green,blue,yellow and white, black being a very aggressive cutting compound pad, to white being a super soft polishing pad. i just had to buy some new ones because the others were getting quite used up. this is basically what i use.
i cut vehicles with a product called clean cut, then usually change pads to a soft cut and hit again with mcguires color x scratch and swirl remover, then finish with a soft polish pad and hand apply mcguires # 7 mirror glaze polish and buff it in until its gone off the panel.
then you can go from something as rough and sanded like this:
to this:
i cut vehicles with a product called clean cut, then usually change pads to a soft cut and hit again with mcguires color x scratch and swirl remover, then finish with a soft polish pad and hand apply mcguires # 7 mirror glaze polish and buff it in until its gone off the panel.
then you can go from something as rough and sanded like this:
to this:
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Misanthropy
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Yeah I was wondering about harbor, they just opened one around here and all of the tools are really cheap. Even if they break its worth it! I will most likely hit you up tomorrow or Friday in a PM about buying 2 pads. Thanks for the info and I already have the scratch x and #3 swirl remover. Then the tech wax, but it says to follow up with something else on top of the tech wax(IMO just the tech is enough for protection I am just trying to get the scratches out of the car.
Oh and does the #3 swirl remover cut deeper than the scratch x?
Oh and does the #3 swirl remover cut deeper than the scratch x?
jamies98lsc
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im not sure scratch X and color X are both scratch and swirl removers so i would assume #3 is most likely not much more abrasive. you can try using some Clear cut for clearcoats or clean cut like the stuff i use, there is no wax in clean cut its a silicone based compound and if it slings all over the car is washes right off with water, awesome for clean up.
just a note pad colors are not constant across all lines 3m and megs both have black as there polishing bad white is a cutting pad ect.
I use dual action cleaner polish and #9 swirl remover most of the time. DACP with a red regs pad follow up with #9 on a black 3m pad maybe a hand glaze and if its not new paint a nice coat of megs #16
I use dual action cleaner polish and #9 swirl remover most of the time. DACP with a red regs pad follow up with #9 on a black 3m pad maybe a hand glaze and if its not new paint a nice coat of megs #16