Once buffed, always buffed ? please help

scottIN · 10-05-2012, 12:46 PM

In most cases, you're you're not using a PC (or rotary or Cyclo or a similar professional tool), you're not really removing scratches - you're just filling them with the products. Most of the polish products you can buy at retail like Walmart or auto parts stores have fillers and oils. Most professional polishes do not. Look to see if the polish says 'Body Shop Safe'. If it doesn't, it's got fillers.

So it's not really the buffer that's doing anything - it's the product that's filling in the swirls. And the product fill will work for a while, but eventually it wears off and you have to polish again (even though you're not really polishing).

Junkman2008 · 10-10-2012, 11:09 PM

Some guys posting in this thread need to check out the first 5 videos in this thread. You will learn a ton.

37Z · 10-11-2012, 07:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scottIN

In most cases, you're you're not using a PC (or rotary or Cyclo or a similar professional tool), you're not really removing scratches - you're just filling them with the products. Most of the polish products you can buy at retail like Walmart or auto parts stores have fillers and oils. Most professional polishes do not. Look to see if the polish says 'Body Shop Safe'. If it doesn't, it's got fillers.

So it's not really the buffer that's doing anything - it's the product that's filling in the swirls. And the product fill will work for a while, but eventually it wears off and you have to polish again (even though you're not really polishing).

Plus one

Bear in mind that your removing the clear coat when your buffing it with any polish machine. This in not necessary a bad thing though. When the clear coat become thin; it time to respray several layers of clear coat. Next, start the machine polishing again in order to eliminate fish eyes/uneven clear coat.

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10-05-2012, 12:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
scottIN Track Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: New Castle, Indiana Posts: 764 Drives: '12 370Z Rep Power: 55	In most cases, you're you're not using a PC (or rotary or Cyclo or a similar professional tool), you're not really removing scratches - you're just filling them with the products. Most of the polish products you can buy at retail like Walmart or auto parts stores have fillers and oils. Most professional polishes do not. Look to see if the polish says 'Body Shop Safe'. If it doesn't, it's got fillers. So it's not really the buffer that's doing anything - it's the product that's filling in the swirls. And the product fill will work for a while, but eventually it wears off and you have to polish again (even though you're not really polishing).