Burning Plastic

[Firstson]

I know that the PC is supposed to be a lot safer than a rotary. But would it be possible to "burn" plastic bumpers with the pc. When i was detailing my magnum, don't have any pics now, its been fixed, i was polished with #80 on an 8006 with the pc just like i would on any other panel. When i was done the product was very difficult to take off and left a sort of very hazed, spotty haze on the paint. I was able to correct it by hand with #105 but would that be considered burning?

Peace

[Mike Phillips]

Re: Burning Plastic

When i was done the product was very difficult to take off and left a sort of very hazed, spotty haze on the paint. I was able to correct it by hand with #105 but would that be considered burning?

Peace

The term burn or burn through the paint means to buff-through the clear coat and expose the color coat. With a single stage paint it would mean to buff through the color coat and expose the primer or the panel.

It's pretty hard to burn through the paint with a DA Polisher due to the clutch which acts as a safety switch, which prevents the pad from rotating when too much pressure is applied.

Sounds more like the M80 became gummy or close to drying while you were buffing?

Hard to say without being there or without a pictures.

I've never seen a DA Polisher burn through a clear coat finish on a modern car. It's possible but highly unlikely and in order to do this a person would either have to be buffing on paint that was very thin to start with and in most cases not using the tool properly.

Another way of putting this would be burning through a clear coat finish with a DA Polisher would be the least of my worries.

Glad to hear you recovered from the issue however...

[Fischer]

Re: Burning Plastic

I dont think so. Its just the polish getting into the plastic and it kinda staining? it.

[Mike Phillips]

Re: Burning Plastic

I dont think so. Its just the polish getting into the plastic and it kinda staining? it.

When you say plastic, what do you mean?

Plastic Trim? Like the pebble textures stuff? Or something else?

Or are you talking about painted plastic components?

Can you post a picture or send it to me via e-mail and I'll post it to this thread so we can see what it is you're working on?

[Firstson]

Re: Burning Plastic

It was the painted rear bumper of my car. Same as most cars, at least i assume they're made from some kind of plastic. And yea, the drying out would make sense, there was product to remove but it was very difficult.



It was on the right side of his rear bumper, but like i said, i didn't take any pics at the time.

Peae

[christian6984]

Re: Burning Plastic

you could have overworked the polish, this would cause it to be difficult to remove. plastic panels wont disperse the heat the same so the panels will be warmer and stay that way for longer causing the product to dry out faster.