Hi All,
Firstly, great site! I've been looking through the site over the last few weeks and there is some great info.
Now my question. I'm having trouble with buffing paint. The paint is a 2 pack, acrylic urethene enamal (sounds like a contradiction to me?). I've used a black base coat with 2-3 coats of clear. The cars looks very good, considering I'm an amateur but I got a few bits of crap land on it while it was drying (top clear coat only) and orange peel in a couple of areas. As a result I think i really need to cut it back and buff it. I've done a trial on the boot (trunk) and it looks pretty good. The only problem I see is on certain light angles you can just see some finally sanding marks. I used 1200, then 1500, then 2000. I then buffed the s*&t out of it. I used a 'G3' compound which was recommended by several good painters. Where did I go wrong? Is there a more aggressive compound I should use? The scratches are really light (maybe from the 1200). I've resanded the panel with just 2000 until all the scrathes appear to be gone and again heavily buffed the panel but still i can see light scratches!!?? I've painted heaps of cars in acrylic before and this final process is far far easier.
Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Galman:ears:
Firstly, great site! I've been looking through the site over the last few weeks and there is some great info.
Now my question. I'm having trouble with buffing paint. The paint is a 2 pack, acrylic urethene enamal (sounds like a contradiction to me?). I've used a black base coat with 2-3 coats of clear. The cars looks very good, considering I'm an amateur but I got a few bits of crap land on it while it was drying (top clear coat only) and orange peel in a couple of areas. As a result I think i really need to cut it back and buff it. I've done a trial on the boot (trunk) and it looks pretty good. The only problem I see is on certain light angles you can just see some finally sanding marks. I used 1200, then 1500, then 2000. I then buffed the s*&t out of it. I used a 'G3' compound which was recommended by several good painters. Where did I go wrong? Is there a more aggressive compound I should use? The scratches are really light (maybe from the 1200). I've resanded the panel with just 2000 until all the scrathes appear to be gone and again heavily buffed the panel but still i can see light scratches!!?? I've painted heaps of cars in acrylic before and this final process is far far easier.
Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. Galman:ears:
