Orange Cabby Project!!! With Pics :) UPDATED!!!
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Orange Peel
I have a case of orange peel on my car and asked at the HEX holdings paint shop their answer was:
You always get some orange peel with paintwork you have a few options:
1) Leave it and just apply a good polish.
2) By hand:
Use wet and dry sand paper (about 1200 to 1400grit) with plenty of soapy water and a sanding block.
Then use Farecla G4 rubbing compound (G4 is the cheapest and v-good)
Then use a wax polish such as Farecla finishing compound.
Doing it by hand is the slowest but most effective way - and it will get you arms like Popeye.
* They did also say you could leave out the Wet&Dry and just start with the G4 - lot more rubbing though!
3) Machine polishing:
I asked a spray Painter and Hex Holdings both said dont go down this route unless you have experience.
The painter said he had loaned his polisher to a friend who hod some limited experience - he said this guy went through the paint on almost every edge of the bodywork.
If you chose to go down this route you need a polisher - bit like an angle grinder but spins slower. The cheapest costs about ?30.
There are also many different heads for these things and they can get quite expensive.
In my view I'd say have a go at hand polishing, if that fails take it to a painter to have it machine polished.
Could always have it re-sprayed…
All the best.
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Orange Cabby Project!!! With Pics :) update with more pics!!
Many thanks to paul c who came and gave me a hand and got the engine loom in place and told me loads of parts that im missing which iv now sourced so ill prob be needing you again soon lol
Anyway here are some pics for everyone,
Picked interior up and got it fitted so inside is much nicer and just needs a few bits doing now
Got all 4 wheels, mirrors, grill and roof with torneaux cover and wipers fitted
finally got chrome door locks and pins fitted and thats it up to now,
Well let me know what you think, hopefully have it finished in the next few months, fingers crossed
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this will tell you how to approach wet flatting and polising, just polishing with a rotary polisher removes about 10 microns with a mild polish, wet flatting requires a more agressive polish in order to remove all the flatting marks and as you are also removing paint this rapidly reduces what you have left to play with.
if you are definately going down the route of polishing it make sure you can competantly use a rotary as its very easy to burn through edges or dwell on one spot too long. it may be an idea to look at using a dual action polisher as they ramdomly orbit and therefore do not generate anywhere near as much heat build up but result are the same, it will just take abit longer.
if it was me, i would flat the whole car back using the 2 bucket method (to avoid any fine scratches) and jus get the whole thing clear coated. the result will be a much better finish, deeper shine and will be much better in the long run for protecting the paint
my 2pence worth anyhow :wink:
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the orange peel isnt that bad and i just wanna get the car complete and mot'd and going then once its done i will sort out the paintwork, it looks presentable to its not an issue at the moment!
also if people read the thread properly weve all been through ways of getting rid of the orange peel,
cheers
jay
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