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| | | | Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 338 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 338 | So as I was cutting and buffing my hood I noticed a flaw - it looks like the gun may have spit a high concentration of metal flake about the size of a finger tip. Needless to say I ain't leavin it that way.
What is the best choice scuff and reshoot? or try to spot fix it? I have clearcoat on as well (hence the Cut and Buff)
Thanks | | | | | Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 1,901 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 1,901 | Sand with 600 or 800.
Re shoot the panel.
Its metal flake.
Last edited by CASO; 04/25/2013 2:47 PM.
Give me ambiguity
or give me something else
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 338 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 338 | I must be going blind - cannot believe I did not notice it when I shot it. Only after wet sanding it all with 1500 and then 2000 and then buffing did I see it.
that is about 30 hours down the tube.
gotta love it! | | | | | Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 338 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 338 | Wondering if Magnets could have been the cause. I had the hood covered with a plastic drop cloth after it was all primed (for winter) that was held in place with a couple magnets.
Is it possible that the metal got magnetized just enough to draw a higher concentration of metallic flake in that spot? | | | | | Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2006 Posts: 9,671 | The metal flake is probably aluminum which is a non-ferrous metal.
Next to impossible to spot metalic painted panels, as mentioned
you're better off shooting the whole panel if you want it to look
even.
DG
Last edited by Denny Graham; 04/26/2013 10:18 AM.
Denny G
Sandwich, IL
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 338 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 338 | think i will pick up some trizact 1500/3000 discs or Norton Ice to see if that speeds up the cutting of the clear.
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 1,901 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jun 2011 Posts: 1,901 | Cutting happens with 4-8 hundred grit. Above that your just polishing.
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