New Toy - #5000 Grit Trizact Foam Finishing Discs

[Mike Phillips]

New Toy - #5000 Grit Trizact Foam Finishing Discs

Came into work this morning and found a box of 3M Trizact #5000 Foam Discs on my desk to test out...

Meguiar's #3000 is considered a ultra fine grit sanding/finishing disc
Mirka Abralon #4000 is considered an ultra fine grit sanding/finishing disc

I guess this makes 3M #5000 Ultra Ultra Fine?

#5000 Grit Trizact Foam Finishing Discs


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Need something to sand now... hmm...

[greg0303]

Wow, that's gonna be a super fine experience.

I guess in some cases that super controlled sanding may be beneficial.

[smack]

Wow. I thought 3000 was ultra high...

[Michael Stoops]

Boy, refine your sanding marks down to 5000 grit and you can easily buff them out with our DA Microfiber Correction System. How long before the rotary is made totally obsolete?



Or did that just touch a nerve for some??????

[smack]

Speaking of this 5000 grit as Mike pointed out, I think it is going to make the rotary almost obsolete. I mean, I have had success pulling out 3000 grit marks and rotary holagrams on a small test panel with the mf system (The guy hasnt brought me his car that is full of the mess to finish).

Im kinda curios though as to why we would need this. If a rotary can pull out 1500 pretty easily and the mf disc on a D/A can do 3000 with enough patience why have 5000? Am I missing something?

[Wukin2k2]

Are those sand discs use for heavy overspray removal? Just my non educated guess.

[Mark Kleis]

Speaking of this 5000 grit as Mike pointed out, I think it is going to make the rotary almost obsolete. I mean, I have had success pulling out 3000 grit marks and rotary holagrams on a small test panel with the mf system (The guy hasnt brought me his car that is full of the mess to finish).

Im kinda curios though as to why we would need this. If a rotary can pull out 1500 pretty easily and the mf disc on a D/A can do 3000 with enough patience why have 5000? Am I missing something?

Mr. Stoops can likely answer this best, but my guess would be that sanding will level paint better than any type of compounding or polishing. So you might want 5,000 for specific types of jobs, and not for others.

[Mike Phillips]

Did some comparison testing between,

#1500 Grit Sanding Discs - Meguiar's
#1500 Foam Backed Finishing Discs - Meguiar's
#3000 Foam Backed Finishing Discs - Meguiar's
#5000 Foam Backed Finishing Discs - 3M

I'll let the pictures do the talking...

From left to right...

#1500 Grit Sanding Disc, #1500 Foam Backed Finishing Disc, #3000 Foam Backed Finishing Disc and #5000 Foam Backed Finishing Disc











At the #5000 mark you're really starting to restore reflectivity to the paint...





Stay tuned, we'll see what it takes to remove the sanding marks...

[greg0303]

I like 5000-grit finish.

[Michael Stoops]

At the #5000 mark you're really starting to restore reflectivity to the paint...





Stay tuned, we'll see what it takes to remove the sanding marks...

The level of reflectivity that appears following 5000 grit is no big shock, given the fact that a full 1500 grit process shows almost zero reflectivity while a 3000 grit pass will show obvious reflections of overhead lights. It's very cool to see that you can actually read box labels through the 5000 grit marks, so you know that is a very refined, predictable sanding scratch. Removal of these 5000 grit marks should be a snap on most paints since the 3000 grit marks are often removed quite easily with our DAMF System.

Looking forward to your findings here, Mike.