DA Dry/Wet Sanding
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 Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 8:26 pm
How many of you guys use your 6in orbitals with a interface pad to dry sand your clears? Are Wet Orbitals the best to use? What grits are you using with your sander? thanks
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:54 pm
GO dry, it is what i mostly hear of anyone doing now.. Use the backing pad and you can use the 3m hookit setup, it will cut the sanding time for clear in half... Make sure you use a seperate DA for that only... DO NOT USE your DA that you use on bodywork.... You will just be asking for trouble if a piece of something falls off that thing and you grind it in your fresh clear.
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 1:50 pm
I used to do wet but as Matthew said a lot of guys are going dry now and most of the custom body shops around me are going dry. Having a dedicated "finish sanding" machine is definitely the way to go (the tighter the pattern the better). He's right, it's just too easy to get crap crunched in the coating adding a swirl pattern from hell that won't become apparent until later when compounding and polishing. I've used 1000 all the way out to 3000 grit for sanding in this manner.
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:49 pm
I have noticed that when i dry sand clear coat with 1500 on my da, the paper tends to clog up quite quickly... is this normal?
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Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 11:12 pm
How long are you waiting beofre sanding, and what type of paper are you using??
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 12:12 am
try using 1200. 1500 is too fine for cutting fresh clear
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Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2005 6:11 pm
actually 1500 works great on new clear... however i tried sanding a bumper that has been dry for about a year and i used like 3 discs and didnt even get it half done... the paper kept cloging....
I am also going to be dry sanding some heavy oxidation off of a gel coated boat...what grit do you guys recommend? |
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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 9:48 am
were you using 1500 on the bumper?
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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2005 6:58 pm
Yep 1500 on the bumper...
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Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:34 pm
why is it u guys are dry sanding the clear instead of wetsanding??? i was always told to wet sand...
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