Using
Meguiar's Blue Clay I removed the bonded above surface contaminants.
After claying the paint the next step was to check the hardness and see how it responds to polishing. These are the
two pads I'm going to use along with
Prima Swirl, my favorite polish. Those with sharp eyes might see the swirls in the paint made visible by my lighting rig.
With the abundance of curves, I wanted to see if the paint could be polished with a dual action orbital polisher.
The results were very impressive, but not perfect. I stepped the pad up to the orange pad, and it helped remove those isolated defects, but it also hazed the paint.
So I opted to use the white pad on the rotary. The reason it's so dark is because I believe that there is no better way to light the paint and see the true condition than in a dark environment where all light is focused on the panel being corrected.
Look at how crisp the reflection of the light is now!
Compare this to the adjacent door and see how bad the paint used to look
Moving along, I performed another test on the hood
With the tape line removed, you can see the fuzzy paint and how the light changes both the color of the paint to a pinkish hue, as well as looking very scratched.
With the light focused over the unpolished side, you can see how the reflection of the light isn't clearly focused like on the polished side.
Here's a view of the lighting rig and the environment. It looks brighter than it actually is. Outside was actually dark and lit by the street lamps, though it looks almost day time due to the long exposure.
More pictures will be posted tomorrow along with the rest of the paint polishing.
Richard
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