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Detail2Correction
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I'm currently doing a full correction/coating on my personal vehicle. The first step consisted of Rupes 21, Megs MF cutting disc and M101 doing multiple passes to give you an idea how hard the paint is. Normally my second step would be a flat white foam pad w/ M205. I had picked up a couple Gloss pads from Corey this past week and was wanting to try them out. Given how hard this paint was I was curious to see if it could remove the micro marring left behind from the first step. For polish I grabbed Shine Supply's Classic Polish. I didn't think that Reflect would have enough "bite" especially with the soft Gloss pad. The result? Ahhhhh buddy.
It finished down great which I was expecting due to the super hard paint. What really surprised me was is removed ALL the micro marring. I took a bunch of pictures but only a few turned out decent. For whatever reason the halogen lights were doing strange things to my camera on the red paint.
5 in Gloss pad
Fits the Rupes perfectly
This is all that was needed to do 1/2 a fender or 1/3 of a door.
Classic polish broken down
Pad afterwards
50/50 2nd/1st step. It was really difficult to pick up the micro marring in the pics due to the halogens. There was zero marring on the left side.
Gloss shots
I used speed 4 for two passes then speed 3 for two passes. Moderate/firm pressure on the first two passes then backed off a little on the last two but still keeping pad rotation to about 2 per second.
There is one thing that is definitely worth mentioning. When I first read about the Gloss pad and how the foam was soft I had my doubts about it's "fine polishing" ability. In my experience a "soft" pad does not finishing down well on soft-moderately soft paints(that's a whole other topic I'll cover some other time)and that firmer pads actually do better. I expressed this concern to Corey and he assured me that it wouldn't be the case with the Gloss pad.
The foam is very soft and the dense foam backing plate is very firm, I believe the dense foam is the key. When compressing the pad it does not act or feel like a typical soft foam finishing pad. The dense foam does a great job transferring the machine's motion/energy efficiently to the foam.
Thanks for reading. If you get a chance pick up a Gloss pad. IMO it's versatile and will work well with many different types of compounds/polishes.
J@D2C
It finished down great which I was expecting due to the super hard paint. What really surprised me was is removed ALL the micro marring. I took a bunch of pictures but only a few turned out decent. For whatever reason the halogen lights were doing strange things to my camera on the red paint.
5 in Gloss pad
Fits the Rupes perfectly
This is all that was needed to do 1/2 a fender or 1/3 of a door.
Classic polish broken down
Pad afterwards
50/50 2nd/1st step. It was really difficult to pick up the micro marring in the pics due to the halogens. There was zero marring on the left side.
Gloss shots
I used speed 4 for two passes then speed 3 for two passes. Moderate/firm pressure on the first two passes then backed off a little on the last two but still keeping pad rotation to about 2 per second.
There is one thing that is definitely worth mentioning. When I first read about the Gloss pad and how the foam was soft I had my doubts about it's "fine polishing" ability. In my experience a "soft" pad does not finishing down well on soft-moderately soft paints(that's a whole other topic I'll cover some other time)and that firmer pads actually do better. I expressed this concern to Corey and he assured me that it wouldn't be the case with the Gloss pad.
The foam is very soft and the dense foam backing plate is very firm, I believe the dense foam is the key. When compressing the pad it does not act or feel like a typical soft foam finishing pad. The dense foam does a great job transferring the machine's motion/energy efficiently to the foam.
Thanks for reading. If you get a chance pick up a Gloss pad. IMO it's versatile and will work well with many different types of compounds/polishes.
J@D2C
