Cutting question

[peedee]

hey folks,

So, went to remove some swirl marks today. Full clean and decontamination carried out beforehand. I used a Megs G220 DA with green hex pad in conjunction with megs 105. For some reason, the 105 seemed to stick on the bodywork and was very hard to buff off? Any ideas?

This was carried out in a garage (out of direct sunlight) but was pretty warm in there.

 

[Yellow Dave]

Talk us through the process used in using the polish? Time, passes, speed etc

 

[Sunglasses_Ron]

I've had this before. Would car pro eraser be a good option to clean any polish residue left after machine polishing?

 

[peedee]

So, the cutting process I use....

Slightly damp pad.
4 blobs on the pad.

Dab the area with the pad first to put a couple of blobs on the area. First of all, on speed number 3, I do three passes across the area (3 sets of complete passes if that makes sense i.e I go over the area 3 times completely), then crank the speed up to number 5 and do a couple more complete passes

 

[Chrisgti6]

Not enough passes in my opinion. You need to work the polish until it's fully broken down. Sounds like all you've done is spread it around.

 

[Yellow Dave]

Not working the polish enough was my first thought

 

[Knuckles]

So, the cutting process I use....

Slightly damp pad.
4 blobs on the pad.

Dab the area with the pad first to put a couple of blobs on the area. First of all, on speed number 3, I do three passes across the area (3 sets of complete passes if that makes sense i.e I go over the area 3 times completely), then crank the speed up to number 5 and do a couple more complete passes

You're leaving it at the breaking down stage (when it starts to go translucent)

Knock it up to speed 6 (or the top speed) for some more passes.

This will do the cutting, but will leave your own marks in the paint.

Bring it back down to speed 3 or 4 for a few more passes to buff out these marks