buffing rocker cover help?

[dearing5]

i have sanded and started polishing a rocker cover with a halfords buffing wheel and autosol but its not really doing anything? its not a mirror finish and its got lots of little scratches left from the sanding!!

any ideas?

[Rusty 16v]

How fine a grade did you get down to when sanding?

[dearing5]

i just gone over it with 1200...and polish then 1200 then polish etc its working a i think!! just a slow progress i guess?

[COO]

can be very slow...use powertools if possible !

[dearing5]

yeah i got a buffer wheel on a drill bit..so just keep rubbing it and buffing it?

[eddgsiturbo]

yeah i got a buffer wheel on a drill bit..so just keep rubbing it and buffing it?

yea then work ur way down through the sand paper till its smooth and shiny, then brasso, or tcut it till has a shine, or a engineers should be able 2 do it with a buffin wheel

[steverubberduck]

I bought an ebay polishing kit, came with lots of different mops and grits.
Got the bit i needed polishing from this to this...

[dearing5]

seems to be working now, i got a kit from machine mart...

stilll some light scratches though? and is there a tip for getting a mirror finish?

[Benn]

Once you've finished sanding, don't start again.

A drill isn't fast enough. You want 800+rpm.

What is this halfords buffing head? As you wanna start with a corse one then move to a softer one and on.

Autosol isnt good enough, you want proper polishing soaps.

[dearing5]

but i need to sand to get the scratches out?

i have a sander with has adjustable speeds, can i use that with a mop head etc

its just a soft one and i dont use autosol any more...i have some proper soaps from machine mart.

[Benn]

You need a hard head to start with, this start to remove the scratches. And no a sander isn't fast enough, think grinder speed...

[dearing5]

i have a grinder to lol i will dig that out!

i have a hard head and a soft head in this pack i got with soaps?

[timc20xe]

depending on how deep the scratches are you want to start off with either a 400 or a 600 grit , use the 600 grit untill you can no longer see the scratches from before then use a 800 untill you can no longer see the scratches from the 600 and then do the same with the 1000 and the 1500 , when you can no longer see any scratches then polish away ,

[dearing5]

right well i have sussed this now! i used my hard mop to remove scratches etc and the t cut and then the soaps etc has come up brilliant!!

well just keep doing it until im happy.

cheers

[Benn]

T-cut???????? And yeah hard head then soft wit the right soaps for each.

[dearing5]

yeah its metal t-cut...seems to work well.

[timc20xe]

i used t cut before and thought it was crap , stick to the soaps and autosol

[dearing5]

above posts are saying keep away from auto sol? t cut isn't as abrasive.

[Knoxygtt]

I did the rocker cover on my let, started with 200 grit, 400, 600, 800, 1200 then 1500, then greasless abrasive compound, greased compound with a mopp, then g3, took me 3 ****ing weeks, its a mirror finish now

[Benn]

above posts are saying keep away from auto sol? t cut isn't as abrasive.

Autosol is a very coarse abrasive you can use it at the start but not anywhere near finishing. But as you have the soaps there's no need.