Hi guys and all detailing senior practitioner, and KC...
Here are some pictures of my first time, DIY wet sanding and rotary... **Parental Advisory (18F)**: What you are about to see is nothing like what sifus and seniors here did. This is a first attempt.
The day I got my warriors assembled, I was so excited!!!
The night before, I tried to ask my friends if anyone is willing to let me try on their car... Nobody was convenient. God is good. I thank God for that because what would happen would have been disastrous.
Morning, 9am. Went out to look for scrap bonnet. Chop shop wanted to chop me for RM150. Finally, went to a paint and body shop owned by a friend and he sold to me for RM30. No bonnet available, so he gave me a wira trunk hood. Here goes...
The hood was really beaten up and dirty with dust, soil, and grease. It looks perfect and undamaged at first because of the amount of dirt that covered it... Even damaged my car's interior when I was transporting it back. Sprayed with water and used OPC full strength. After seeing how much OPC i've used and the dirt remaining, I got no choice but to resort to detergent...
Really inconvenient because house is undergoing renovation. Had to work beside this metal grinding guy with sparks flying all over... Thank God the sun was kind and weather was cool today and without rain!
After the aggressive cleaning and the ONR, the imperfections started to show up!!! Countless of deep scratches as if people use the hood to operate a pan knife/cutter blade.
Rust spot, body fillers, gum, what ever you name...
This is the thing that gave me hell and took the most time removing it. The double sided tape for the mini spoiler (wira). The gum is sticking so tough onto the paint. And yet when I scrub it, the sponge breaks off leaving the sticky part to it. I even tried to sand it starting from 400 grit. But seeing the rate, I think this is impossible to finish today. So I drove off to buy more aggressive sandpaper.
Here... So what I used was 80, 240, 400, 800, 1000. KC asked to narrow down to 1500, 2000, then 2500 but there is none available here! Hard to find stuff in KK! What to do?
Some of the damages on the hood... For this scratch, I have sanded it down till if feels smooth to the touch... But it is still visible... why why why????
After wet sanding the whole hood, I felt that I made a big mistake... How to remove these scratches? But I cannot chose to not sand because if I don't, how to smoothen out the scratches?
More scratches from sanding...
Really screwed up hood from my sanding...
This is what you call sanding super fail! But I had to sand this aggressively to remove that double sided tape. Until some places are sanded through into the metal... OMG...
And now the rotary part... I am totally astounded by this rotary... I never expected Makita is this much of a heavyweight! After every pass, I was panting! And while spinning, it is as if it tried to swing my had away... Had to wrestle with it and it wasn't easy.... I was constantly losing control and being controlled by the machine... Damn... Fishbonezken was right... seeing it and doing it is a totally different thing :joyman:... I have to say this is hard and requires energy, stamina, and practice.
After 2 passes of OHC and wool pad; 2 passes of OHP and wool pad; 2 passes of OHC with cutting pad; 2 passes of OHP with cutting pad... Speed 1 to spread, 2 to work, SPEED 3 when I was really pissed off, then back down to 1.
No use... My OHC sprayer spoilt... So had to open the bottle and rub the compound on the wool.
Even the rusted spot smoothen out to a smooth touch. But the scratches persisted!
After I tore off the dividing tape... Tada!!!! Quoting KC: "Now you see it, now you don't". But mine is "now you see it, now you see it clearer" . Haha....
50/50. Left undone, right done. As you can see, no difference.
Try and compare with before sanding, compound, polish... Looks like just washing with ONR is better. At least still got a tree reflection...
This is my post for today... Lesson learned... KC said never use 80 grit to sand paint because it is for iron rod... Haha... Good and sad lesson...
I would like to clarify, this post is in no way defaming the products used. It is my first trial and I need tons of practice. I believe the machine, the optimum products, are remarkable... The proof is pictures of ONR and OPC at work. This first time, I totally screw up because I used 80 grit. I never expected this... Want to upload pictures also malu la... But the reason I upload is that I really appreciate if you guys, detailers, and KC can give some input, correct me, educate me... I will not give up...
Thank you...
Here are some pictures of my first time, DIY wet sanding and rotary... **Parental Advisory (18F)**: What you are about to see is nothing like what sifus and seniors here did. This is a first attempt.
The day I got my warriors assembled, I was so excited!!!
The night before, I tried to ask my friends if anyone is willing to let me try on their car... Nobody was convenient. God is good. I thank God for that because what would happen would have been disastrous.
Morning, 9am. Went out to look for scrap bonnet. Chop shop wanted to chop me for RM150. Finally, went to a paint and body shop owned by a friend and he sold to me for RM30. No bonnet available, so he gave me a wira trunk hood. Here goes...
The hood was really beaten up and dirty with dust, soil, and grease. It looks perfect and undamaged at first because of the amount of dirt that covered it... Even damaged my car's interior when I was transporting it back. Sprayed with water and used OPC full strength. After seeing how much OPC i've used and the dirt remaining, I got no choice but to resort to detergent...
Really inconvenient because house is undergoing renovation. Had to work beside this metal grinding guy with sparks flying all over... Thank God the sun was kind and weather was cool today and without rain!
After the aggressive cleaning and the ONR, the imperfections started to show up!!! Countless of deep scratches as if people use the hood to operate a pan knife/cutter blade.
Rust spot, body fillers, gum, what ever you name...
This is the thing that gave me hell and took the most time removing it. The double sided tape for the mini spoiler (wira). The gum is sticking so tough onto the paint. And yet when I scrub it, the sponge breaks off leaving the sticky part to it. I even tried to sand it starting from 400 grit. But seeing the rate, I think this is impossible to finish today. So I drove off to buy more aggressive sandpaper.
Here... So what I used was 80, 240, 400, 800, 1000. KC asked to narrow down to 1500, 2000, then 2500 but there is none available here! Hard to find stuff in KK! What to do?
Some of the damages on the hood... For this scratch, I have sanded it down till if feels smooth to the touch... But it is still visible... why why why????
After wet sanding the whole hood, I felt that I made a big mistake... How to remove these scratches? But I cannot chose to not sand because if I don't, how to smoothen out the scratches?
More scratches from sanding...
Really screwed up hood from my sanding...
This is what you call sanding super fail! But I had to sand this aggressively to remove that double sided tape. Until some places are sanded through into the metal... OMG...
And now the rotary part... I am totally astounded by this rotary... I never expected Makita is this much of a heavyweight! After every pass, I was panting! And while spinning, it is as if it tried to swing my had away... Had to wrestle with it and it wasn't easy.... I was constantly losing control and being controlled by the machine... Damn... Fishbonezken was right... seeing it and doing it is a totally different thing :joyman:... I have to say this is hard and requires energy, stamina, and practice.
After 2 passes of OHC and wool pad; 2 passes of OHP and wool pad; 2 passes of OHC with cutting pad; 2 passes of OHP with cutting pad... Speed 1 to spread, 2 to work, SPEED 3 when I was really pissed off, then back down to 1.
No use... My OHC sprayer spoilt... So had to open the bottle and rub the compound on the wool.
Even the rusted spot smoothen out to a smooth touch. But the scratches persisted!
After I tore off the dividing tape... Tada!!!! Quoting KC: "Now you see it, now you don't". But mine is "now you see it, now you see it clearer" . Haha....
50/50. Left undone, right done. As you can see, no difference.
Try and compare with before sanding, compound, polish... Looks like just washing with ONR is better. At least still got a tree reflection...
This is my post for today... Lesson learned... KC said never use 80 grit to sand paint because it is for iron rod... Haha... Good and sad lesson...
I would like to clarify, this post is in no way defaming the products used. It is my first trial and I need tons of practice. I believe the machine, the optimum products, are remarkable... The proof is pictures of ONR and OPC at work. This first time, I totally screw up because I used 80 grit. I never expected this... Want to upload pictures also malu la... But the reason I upload is that I really appreciate if you guys, detailers, and KC can give some input, correct me, educate me... I will not give up...
Thank you...
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