![]() ![]() Every microscratch makes your paint shine less as it deflects light away from the eye. If you do not use a high quality towel you will put more scratches back into the paint than you took out. I see so many people waxing with paper towels it makes me cringe. You will need some good Microfiber towels, even if its just the onces at sams club or costco. Now there are various other things you can do throughout the process to condition the paint before hand, but I doubt you will want to invest the time or money. Meguiars ultimate compound is actually a very good product for being OTC. 3m is going to be the easiest to get locally, some may have some meguiars stuff. I like Menzerna but being a foreign company they are not as easy to come by. There are many different compounds out there. You need to use various stages of compounds and polishes to get the paint back to a mirror finish. But you have to be careful as you can ruin the paint. For the heaviest correction you need a rotary buffer with a wool pad. To get good correcting you need to go down to a 5" or so foam pad. Most are 10-12", these will not offer any correcting ability on a random orbit machine. ![]() They are not powerful enough and their pads are far too big. They basically jiggle your arms and do not cutting to the paint. These have a large pad and have the motor/handles above the pad. I am going to guess you purchased a "wax spreader". You cannot do this with the buffer you purchased. You have to abrade the paint if you want high quality results. This means there is a small amount of abrasive in it to help cut through the oxidation, but far from enough to do any real good if you want that mirror image. The reason the waxes appear to remove the oxidation is due to them being an All In One cleaner wax. Wax is a protective coating, it WILL add depth to the paint, but the shine comes from the surface underneath. WAX DOES NOT MAKE YOUR MACHINE SHINE!!!!!!!! You can buy it at Iowa 80 truckstop or online thru them. A buffing wheel makes it easier but be careful not to burn the paint. Make sure you use your buffer flat like a sander not angled and force full like a grinder the angled approach is what makes the swirls and lines ![]() one, 1st and 2nd time make sure u don't "burn" the paint, use high rpm but low pressure. Posted 21:55 (#3108408 - in reply to #3108343) Subject: Re: Waxing equipment ?įirst use a buffer with cleaning compound, then come back by hand or buffer, with polish. But got streaks on the top of the hood, that will come out with something real wet, but still wont shine like everything that I got to buff out with the buffer. What I got done shines like new after putting another coat of a different wax on. ![]() I used the Mequirs heavy cut thru cleaning wax. Meguirs has a cleaner wax we used it with a buffer and after getting the oxidation off we then hand waxed it and could not beleive how good of a job it did I went from thinking I might paint it to it looking like it has new paint. I used this on an oxidized New Holland tractor, all by hand, no power tools. I had good results with Mequiars rubbing compound, followed by their polishing compound, and lastly their wax. I wax my moustache, does that count? I use Stache Bomb stache wax, sure makes my stache equipment look sharp. Posted 20:59 (#3108214 - in reply to #3108207) Subject: Re: Waxing equipment ?Īside from that, U may need a new paint job. What is a good method for nice even waxing and buffing? I tried several different waxs this afternoon and still had a ruff feel too it, so went and bought a cheap buffer, made alot of difference but I still have like streaks that are ruff and rest really smooth and shiney, and no matter how long I stay on those streaks, they dont want to come out. I dont usually take the time to wax much, but got a new to us SP swather that has good paint underneath but very oxidized. Waxing equipment ? Jump to page : 1 Now viewing page 1 ![]()
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