Cummins/82 C10

[DodgeFreak]

worst that will happen is you have to redo it....

[cmann250]

And you want to put stickers over that? You may need you head checked! (besides the obvious Chevy thing )

[RumbleFish]

Arent moms always right??

[ellis93]

Arent moms always right??

She has been so far

[ellis93]

And you want to put stickers over that? You may need you head checked! (besides the obvious Chevy thing )

Not "all" over it...... Just some of it,that's a lot of silver

[ellis93]

worst that will happen is you have to redo it....

Yeah and that would suck

[ellis93]

Well....I've been looking on YouTube at some wet sand/buffing vids. It doesn't look to much harder than polishing out anything else....just more touchy
I see this working out for me about as well as a turd floating in a punch bowl

[dazedandconfused]

Dar can probably give you some pointers.

[ellis93]

I'm kinda hopping Andy, but I may just bail off into it and see what's what

[1STGENFARMBOY]

sorry man I have been having some chest pain this week, haven been on much...so far so good .

first thing you really really need is a small black foam 3M wet sanding pad ( to wrap the paper around )
use 1500g paper, 5-6 sheets will do it.
keep a bucket of water with a sponge in it, wet it down before you start sanding and squeeze water on it as your sanding( keep it flooded with water)
get a light set up where you can look at the reflection of your work
after sanding a bit slide the paper off the pad and squeegee off the water using the pad and you can see what you have done.
I recommend stopping just before it's smooth( with just a little texture still there), this will insure you haven't sanded through.
sand light on sharp edges, your buffing wheel will contact the edges with more pressure and won't need as much sanding.

buffing .....this is where you mite have a stroke at how much supplies cost.

you will need two black glazing foam pads, and a qt of 3M light cut compound.
when buffing the a panel that meets up with another with a seam, like hood, door, gas door, tailgate, mask off the panel your are not buffing, ( this will insure no
accidental burning off the paint on a adjoining panel, then when it comes time to buff the adjoining panel tape off the opposite.
when doing lets say the hood, pop the latch so the hood is higher than the fenders, and ( ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ) have the rotation of the pad going off the edge, if you don't it will dig in and burn the paint off the edge in a micro second.

the key is good light, you must be able to see what is going on.

good luck.

[ellis93]

Dar thank you for the guidance. I tried it today and it's polishing out but looks dull still. I'm not seeing a deep shine coming up from the amount of buffing I'm doing.
I called up the paint store that sold me the supplies and told them how it was coming out then they asked about a dozen questions to which I had no answer to.
Long story short....I was sold panel clear, not the actual clear for a super shiny finish. The crap I was sold was for spot jobs on old paint. I was informed while I'd make it better I would never get it like i want it. SOB

[1STGENFARMBOY]

Well...........crap.........if you had a thought of reshooting the clear now would be the time, you could give it a quick wet sand retape it and shoot the correct stuff.

I don't guess you could get them to give you the clear could you.

[ellis93]

Their probably not gonna want to but come Monday I'll be sitting in their parking lot at opening time. I got fairly hot when I was told what I had been sold but some how I managed to stay cool. Guess I'm growing up some

[ellis93]

I'm tired water sanding and buffin takes it out of you

[PToombs]

Just be thankful you don't have some old Japanese guy standing over your shoulder going "wax on, wax off"!