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Going to machine polishing please advise

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xjay1337:
I defo agree, working with DA is slower.

I barely use DA's anymore, I have my D6P sat somewhere but most of the time I use either a 3m rotary or a Flex one and both are far, far nicer to use.  Like you say, much less vibration. The time saved can be depending on the kind of paint, on harder paints you are saving a lot of time. Can do a car in about 50% of the time as you say!!

On softer paints it's not really much in it, especially as you don't have the necessity to refine when using a DA, although it is recommended.

rocky_rullez:
http://store.carcareeurope.com/pulidora-orbital-ez-polisher-880W.html

It's my option

WolfsburgEd:

--- Quote from: Hevoshullu on June 18, 2014, 08:45:04 pm ---First of all, correcting the hard VAG black paint will take a lot of time and patience. Also it is important to be familiar with the technique of machine polishing in theory before starting it in practice. I would recommend reading this guide: http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=63859 as well as this http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/images/misc/rotarypolishing.pdf

As for your car, the black VAG paint can be a pain to correct with a dual action machine. The DAS-6 basic model is not powerful enough for the job and even the more powerful DAS-6 Pro will struggle to correct your paint. Using normal common sense you can easily start off with a rotary machine (it's not as dangerous as the internet makes you believe it is). You need to be aware of leaving holograms into the paint and just take it a little bit easier with plastic body parts with a rotary machine. For your case I would probably get the Shinemate EP801 rotary polisher, a 3,5" M14 backing plate, Hex-logic pads in 5,5" and 4" sizes (at least orange, green, blue and black) and them Scholl Concepts S17+ and S30+ compounds. The Scholl compounds are lovely as they work much faster than the traditional Menzerna ones and they don't leave any dust behind.

I don't know about Meguiar's Ultimate Compound, but I wouldn't use the Farecla G3 for paint correction as there are so much better compounds available. AG super resin polish is just an all-in-one product that fill up and mask the swirls. It also doesn't last very long at all, and the swirls come back in sight after just a few washes.

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Sorry to resurect this thread but there is some useful noobie info here on pad and compound choice.

http://www.lakecountrymfg.com/applicationguide/lakecountry-pad-application-guide.pdf

Based on the above quote of getting Orange, Green, Blue and Black (possible White?) pads with the two names Scholl Concepts compounds and the link to Lake Country's chart is the recommendation to use Orange with S17, Green with S17, Green with S30, Blue with S30, White with S30 and then glaze with Black and seal / wax with Blue?

Orc:
I used a rotary with all the appropriate pads and substances for the first time on my black edition 30 about a year ago and now it's still all I use go slow and take it easy it's pretty good to use and unless your doing some serious forcing you won't burn through dude. I find it works way quicker than my mates das 6 that just takes forever, absolutely love my rotary and won't go back.

Shedboyzz:
Agree with everyone above. Give up polishing by hand and probably go to a detailer to achieve a decent correction. I used KDS in Essex

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