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Seems like it's been years since we posted our work - we've been so busy with actually doing the work that we haven't taken the time to post recently. Anyhoo, Mike and I had the privilege to work on this restored 1952 Kaiser Henry J:
It had been restored and repainted, but had some swirl marks and orange peel. The owner wanted to take this car to the next level, so we obliged!
Here you can see the orange peel:
Sanding marks that hadn't been removed:
Swirling:
After washing and claying, Mike and I took paint thickness readings over the entire car. We found 1 area with very thin paint on the passenger door:
We used our G110's and Meguiar's 1500 film sanding discs to level the orange peel, and followed that with Meguiar's 3000 padded discs to remove the sanding marks left by the 1500 grit film discs.
Here the hood has been finished up to 3000 grit and is ready for compounding:
We sanded by hand in areas where the G110's couldn't reach, using Meguiar's Unigrit 1500/2500 grit papers
We compounded with M105 and a solo maroon pad on the rotary @ 2000 RPM to remove the 3000 grit sanding marks - this paint was rock hard!:
The hard paint required 2-3 applications of M105 on a heavy cut wool pad on the rotary to fully remove the sanding marks. We followed the M105 on wool with M105 on a polishing pad on the rotary @ 1500 RPM. Then we followed that with M205 on a light polishing pad on the G110.
Turned out looking great:
I should mention that we worked the hood to completion before proceeding with the rest of the car. It's very important to know your entire process before moving past the first panel.
After we compounded and polished the entire car, we topped with, what else, M26 Hi-Tech Yellow Wax! Orange peel is GONE! Afters:
We also cleaned up the interior:
We polished dash by hand with M105 and M205:
Thanks for looking
It had been restored and repainted, but had some swirl marks and orange peel. The owner wanted to take this car to the next level, so we obliged!
Here you can see the orange peel:
Sanding marks that hadn't been removed:
Swirling:
After washing and claying, Mike and I took paint thickness readings over the entire car. We found 1 area with very thin paint on the passenger door:
We used our G110's and Meguiar's 1500 film sanding discs to level the orange peel, and followed that with Meguiar's 3000 padded discs to remove the sanding marks left by the 1500 grit film discs.
Here the hood has been finished up to 3000 grit and is ready for compounding:
We sanded by hand in areas where the G110's couldn't reach, using Meguiar's Unigrit 1500/2500 grit papers
We compounded with M105 and a solo maroon pad on the rotary @ 2000 RPM to remove the 3000 grit sanding marks - this paint was rock hard!:
The hard paint required 2-3 applications of M105 on a heavy cut wool pad on the rotary to fully remove the sanding marks. We followed the M105 on wool with M105 on a polishing pad on the rotary @ 1500 RPM. Then we followed that with M205 on a light polishing pad on the G110.
Turned out looking great:
I should mention that we worked the hood to completion before proceeding with the rest of the car. It's very important to know your entire process before moving past the first panel.
After we compounded and polished the entire car, we topped with, what else, M26 Hi-Tech Yellow Wax! Orange peel is GONE! Afters:
We also cleaned up the interior:
We polished dash by hand with M105 and M205:
Thanks for looking
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