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The result of 30 hours+ of wet sanding on an Edition 30...
Deako:
Stunning Russ. Happy to see you finally complete this after we discussed it so long ago back in the summer. Excellent!!!
WhiteGTI:
That is incredible! Though, i wish i understood how on earth it worked?! I mean, sanding a car's paint to make it more shiny..... :confused: eh???
stealthwolf:
You make it flatter by evening out any peaks in the clearcoat. It's polishing but a bit more extreme. If there were no imperfections, it'd be a mirror!
n_d_fox:
--- Quote from: WhiteGTI on December 19, 2011, 10:42:40 pm ---That is incredible! Though, i wish i understood how on earth it worked?! I mean, sanding a car's paint to make it more shiny..... :confused: eh???
--- End quote ---
If you look at the full write up on DetailingWorld you will see pics of Kelly using a microscope type machine which is connected to his laptop and shows a very magnified image of the paint... in that pic you can see scratches which are not apparent to the naked eye.
Now imagine that scratched surface side on... it would look like a wavey / wiggly line.
When you machine polish a cars paint you flatten that wiggly line down a bit. Wet sanding does the same thing but at a much more intense level but as the pics show not by taking off much more of the clearcoat. The flatter the line the better the finish.
jimk04:
Are the depth readings just the clearcoat or the base colour aswell.
If its both - how do you know the depth of the clearcoat that you are removing?!
My car now has aftermarket paint - (done at a VW dealers) - does this throw up an unknown regarding my paint depth?
Amazing job BTW....very impressed :happy2:
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