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Cut and polish for the first time
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<blockquote data-quote="Tourmax" data-source="post: 183840" data-attributes="member: 5304"><p>Meguirs is available at crappy tire. Same “good stuff” you get anywhere else.</p><p></p><p>Cut and polish is not an easy task. You need some experience with it to do it right.</p><p></p><p>It’s not a “one part” process. You need to cut with the compound, then you need to poilish with the meguirs ultimate polish, and finish with meguirs ukrimate carnauba wax. The compound cuts down the high spots, but leaves the paint “hazy”. The polish takes away the haze and brings the shine back. The wax protects it all.</p><p></p><p>I use meguirs ultimate compound, polish and wax. I also use a dewalt dwp849x rotary buffer. The rotary makes cutting and polishing possible, but it’s also super easy to mess your paint up...bad.</p><p></p><p>Not familiar with your buffer, but I think that is an obital. You can cut with an orbital, but it takes a lot longer than a rotary. Upside is you really have to do something really wrong with an orbital to mess up your paint.</p><p></p><p>Also be aware there are different pads for cutting, buffing and waxing. Using rhe wrong pad for the wrong purpose will get you poor results at best, or worst case; damage your paint.</p><p></p><p>What I would recommend is find someone who does paint correction (professionally) and just pay them to get your paint up to snuff. Then use your ordital to wax it and keep it clean.</p><p></p><p>Heres mine after doing my paint correctiin:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]33934[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>1988. It took roughly two weeks to do the whole car. Had I paid a pro to do it, it could have been done in a day....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tourmax, post: 183840, member: 5304"] Meguirs is available at crappy tire. Same “good stuff” you get anywhere else. Cut and polish is not an easy task. You need some experience with it to do it right. It’s not a “one part” process. You need to cut with the compound, then you need to poilish with the meguirs ultimate polish, and finish with meguirs ukrimate carnauba wax. The compound cuts down the high spots, but leaves the paint “hazy”. The polish takes away the haze and brings the shine back. The wax protects it all. I use meguirs ultimate compound, polish and wax. I also use a dewalt dwp849x rotary buffer. The rotary makes cutting and polishing possible, but it’s also super easy to mess your paint up...bad. Not familiar with your buffer, but I think that is an obital. You can cut with an orbital, but it takes a lot longer than a rotary. Upside is you really have to do something really wrong with an orbital to mess up your paint. Also be aware there are different pads for cutting, buffing and waxing. Using rhe wrong pad for the wrong purpose will get you poor results at best, or worst case; damage your paint. What I would recommend is find someone who does paint correction (professionally) and just pay them to get your paint up to snuff. Then use your ordital to wax it and keep it clean. Heres mine after doing my paint correctiin: [ATTACH type="full" alt="630B22E8-CC70-4CE5-A84E-0726CAC61C9A.jpeg"]33934[/ATTACH] 1988. It took roughly two weeks to do the whole car. Had I paid a pro to do it, it could have been done in a day.... [/QUOTE]
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