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So I was trying to polish out some 2000 Grit sanding marks on a freshly repainted car in bodyshop and ran into some issues. I'm using M105 on the new foam WRFC7 red pad with a rotary and the car was painted 3 days previously with a pretty standard aftermarket MS clearcoat. M105 started to dry and harden on the paint surface really quickly and was difficult to wipe off. As I started to use more product to try and get it to cut it started to load in the pad and kick off ALLOT of dust. Eventually I got my side to look fairly decent but it took a long time and allot of product. Then the guy brings out his bottle of 3M 36060 Rubbing Compound and buffs out the same scratches easily using a pretty beat up pad and machine in half the time using half the product. I did a wipe down with some final inspection and there was no filling going on. Needles to say I lost that contest lol.
I've been using a rotary for almost eight years now and I've had some formal training so I'm pretty confident in my technique. M105 has a very good reputation and I see allot of proof in the forum of the excellent results you can get with it so I'm wondering if maybe the high ambient temperatures and humidity we have here in the tropics is to blame? Maybe M105 just isn't suited to this particular application in this particular environment? If you guys have any advice or experience with this let me know.
Much Thanks
Gamma
So I was trying to polish out some 2000 Grit sanding marks on a freshly repainted car in bodyshop and ran into some issues. I'm using M105 on the new foam WRFC7 red pad with a rotary and the car was painted 3 days previously with a pretty standard aftermarket MS clearcoat. M105 started to dry and harden on the paint surface really quickly and was difficult to wipe off. As I started to use more product to try and get it to cut it started to load in the pad and kick off ALLOT of dust. Eventually I got my side to look fairly decent but it took a long time and allot of product. Then the guy brings out his bottle of 3M 36060 Rubbing Compound and buffs out the same scratches easily using a pretty beat up pad and machine in half the time using half the product. I did a wipe down with some final inspection and there was no filling going on. Needles to say I lost that contest lol.
I've been using a rotary for almost eight years now and I've had some formal training so I'm pretty confident in my technique. M105 has a very good reputation and I see allot of proof in the forum of the excellent results you can get with it so I'm wondering if maybe the high ambient temperatures and humidity we have here in the tropics is to blame? Maybe M105 just isn't suited to this particular application in this particular environment? If you guys have any advice or experience with this let me know.
Much Thanks
Gamma
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