02-14-2005, 02:48 PM
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Join Date: Jan 1999
Location: Duvall,
Wa
Cobra Make, Engine: KMP286, Shelby 482, Webers, 593HP
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FlakMan, my intension has been to follow the swift method and I have the polisher and the nuvite compounds. That said, with my current project, I belive it will be for final polishing only. The body from Kirkham has been filed and sanded, so the swift method will come after I have fully sanded smooth and course buff/polished the car. At that point the swift method should work nicely for final finish (I'll let you know over the next month or two how that works out).
It's a heck of a lot of work to sand the body from 220 to 800-1200 then it only slightly gets easier. What I found is that after using a random orbital sander that it leaves a lot of little marks in the metal and they don't tend to expose themselves until you're at a really fine grit paper or you've started polishing, so you'll spend a lot of time chasing the little defects. After you get done sanding for the 10th time  , taking a regular buffing pad to the project didn't seem to move enough metal to get rid of the very small blemishes, so I switched to a high speed grinder with an 8" sisal wheel and appropriate compounds to really blend and pull out the shine (careful to move quickly with a high speed unit as you'll generate heat really fast). All the sanding and the sisal wheel is getting me to the point where I think the swift method will come in to play. In other words, there is a tremendous amount of work to get to the point where it's useful and there's a lot of work left for final finish (the swift method). |
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