How to avoid swirls and holograms?

[Holden_Caulfield04]

Re: How to avoid swirls and holograms?

Curious, what machine operates at 200 rpm? I know the Flex 3403 rotary starts at 1100, the Dewalt DW849 at 1000 rpm and I believe the Hitachi rotary does as well. I always thought the Makita had the slowest starting speed at 600 rpm.

[Mike Phillips]

Re: How to avoid swirls and holograms?

Curious, what machine operates at 200 rpm? I know the Flex 3403 rotary starts at 1100, the Dewalt DW849 at 1000 rpm and I believe the Hitachi rotary does as well. I always thought the Makita had the slowest starting speed at 600 rpm.

Could be a tool specific to Singapore?

I love M80 Speed Glaze, it's my go-to product for restoring oxidized single stage paints, but I've never found it to be the best finishing polish with a rotary buffer on most clear coat paints.

People all see things differently thus my follow-up question above. Great if it worked for him, but not sure finishing with M80 using a rotary buffer at any speed is a good process for the majority of people working on clear coat paints.

[Dav_C]

Re: How to avoid swirls and holograms?

I was using a Flex 3401, the rpm range is 100 - 480rpm. This machine is good for finishing and polish. But I'll not say it is suitable for compound use.

Makita 600rpm is not the lowest. In 220V version, Flex has a L602VR which operates from 0 - 2400 rpm. Can't find even one product review in English language yet. Took some risk, ordered one, should be arriving in 1 week time.

Didn't inspect in full sunlight, aren't they too strong to even open the eyes and see directly? Please tell me if I'm wrong. Where I live, the car park lighting is orange in colour. These lights (dim surrounding with strong light) reveals the most swirls even those not visible in some day light situation, in my eyes.

[Mike Phillips]

Re: How to avoid swirls and holograms?

As long as you're happy with the results that's all that matters.

Don't want to see hordes of people trying to duplicate your results using the products and process you used unless they test first and then inspect and make sure it's working for them.