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Old October 13th, 2008, 10:10 PM   #81 (permalink)
Motor
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Portland Oregon
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Here are some photos of wet sanding and buffing. I played with 600 and 800 grit last week. There was still some residual orange peel that looked like dried soap bubbles. I went back to 400 grit, and that took me to a flat matte. So far so good. Then all the way up (600, 800, 1000, 1200, 1500, 2000).

Here is what 2000 grit looks like:




Note the white little pinhole finish sinks. I have less than 10 of these total. They filled in with wet sanding nitro residue:



Here is the 10 dollar buffing kit I got from Home Depot (a lot cheaper than the 20 dollar buffer, plus the buffing pads, plus buffing compound):

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