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ChipsAway came and touched me up :biggrin: yesterday - good old by only charged £35 inc. VAT, also rubbed out some scratches around the door handle.

 

What would the wet-and-dry be he was using ??, obviously very fine, but worked a treat at removing them..

 

Would like to try it myself in a few other areas.

 

 

 

 

Dean..

 

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I told my wife to get me some 2000 grit the other day, she said she couldnt find it, I told her to get back behind the sink and went and looked myself and I couldnt find 2000grit either, Im using 1000grit for my cam cover.

 

Is 2000grit pretty specialist then?

 

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2000 grit *is* pretty specialist, yes.

 

It's a very fine paper that is designed to flat re-finished paint. It's the stuff you would use if you wanted to create a perfect (or thereabouts) paint job, i.e. paint that is absolutely flat with no orange peel.

 

From the gun you flat with 1500 grit, then with 2000 grit, then compound.

 

Yours,

J

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Quote: from branners on 4:35 pm on July 26, 2001[br]doesnt really bother me that much, I wont be touching the body work on my car with any sandpaper ever. I might be giving it a good seeing to on Saturday with 3m handglaze.

 

JB

 

Did the man from Chipsaway leave the surplus paint with you? The franchisee for my area did, along with instructions as to how to use it.

 

Now while I wouldn't normally go near my car with anything more harsh than the occasional swear word, having had a play with 2000 grade (thank you Ash), I no longer have any fear. If your local Brown Bos. fails I 'll ask body-shop-man where they order it in from.

 

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The chips' man took his pot with him, it cuts the cost, as he did different chips last year, he had a perfect matched pot ready this time.

 

If i'm touching up myself, i had a can mixed for me by a local paint shop, and just spray into the cap etc., which funnily enough i did tonight when my front lip and a ramp had a slight altercation, the lip coming off worse :( - though only on the underside thankfully and not on display. Poor Nick Phelps will be so dissapointed to see his paint work damaged...

 

So could i cut back my whole car with 2000 grit, and then polish it to remove swirls etc. or would i be creating more ?? - i was so impressed with the job it did, i can see plenty of little scratches that could be removed.

 

 

Dean..

 

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Please do not start rubbing down your car with any kind of "grit" unless you are confident about the process.

 

That said, 2000 grit is very mild and will only really do damage if you start sanding edges. It should be used with water that has had a tiny amount of washing-up liquid added.

 

The key skill with getting rid of any scratches, whether they be scratches that occured as a result of coming into contact with a tree-branch (say) or just surface swirls, or anything inbetween... the one key skill is to be able to tell the approximate depth of the scratches and to be able to match the relative severity to the "process" you need to use in order to remove them.

 

For instance, a trained "eye" will see which panels may need flatting with 2000 grit and panels that may come up with a light polish.

 

Ultimately, what it comes down to is, I don't want some member desperate to blow my brains out because they just screwed up their whole paint.

 

Such a skill *does* take a while to accomplish, as I discovered to my cost.

 

So do *please* tread carefully.

 

Yours,

J

 

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What little I picked up watching chipsaway-man and body-shop-man was, if it's through the lacquer, touch it up and flat that, then polish it.

If it's not through the lacquer hire/borrow a polisher and machine polish it.

 

I only used 2000 grade on my mirror to flat was already matt'ed by the garage door pillar. Once I had removed the matt area, I could see the cuts where I needed to place the tiniest amount of touch-up paint which I flatted and polished afterwards.

 

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