Wash Day

[Rich]

Well.....Wolfgang on black looks amazing and leaves a very very slick suface, cant wait to get another coat on tommorrow and then crack open the Souveran on Sunday.

 

[182_blue]

Quote: Originally posted by brazo on 25 March 2005

^^If Id known 182_blue I would have sent you down a sample

thx for that brazo , its a shame as im dying to try it properly, guess i will have to wait till next week now

 

[Gerbz]

Hi guys!

I have spent four hours on my car today so i thought i should share the pics with you!

Let me know what ya think?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/gerber/carpic1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v246/gerber/carpic.jpg

 

[Clare]

Looks good! I miss my silver clio

 

[FiDoDiDo]

Just finished polishing mine but its too dark to take any pictures! It was bad enought trying to find the bits id not done.

 

[Gerbz]

it was gettin dark when i took that pic above!

will take some more tomoz if its sunny

 

[Brazo]

Quote: Originally posted by brazo on 25 March 2005


IIRC Paint thickness is measured in thousands of an inch and typically paint including the clearcoat is around 20 -30 thousands of an inch with the hard clearcoat forming approx 8 thousands of an inch, wet snading with a 1200 grit paper will generally remove 1-2 thousands of an inch per gentle pass, tests were done poilishing paint 30 times in a month with an abrasive polish with no real reduction in clearcoat thickness.

You would therefore literally have to polish your paint every day!

Saying that Renault paint is ony two thousands of an inch thick and can be fully removed after 3 polishes

Just to correct myself the average paint thickness would actually be 4-5 thousands of an inch, otherwise known as mils. Wet sanding will generally remove 0.1 mil per pass