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A meaningful discussion about buffing wheels.

By Skypilot

7 years ago


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    #60 7 years ago

    Funny that this thread popped up.
    The ramp on my Raven is clouded, broken & missing a piece, so I bought a sheet of polycarbonate & solvent & drew up a template in CAD. I'm going to use a rotary tool with a router attachment & a spiral bit to cut it. I'll use a sanding drum in a drill press to even out & clean up the edges.
    I was thinking last night that I could use 1500 grit sandpaper to get rid of most of the sanding marks & then put a buffing wheel in the drill press & buff out the edges. I've got rouge from back when I had a '79 Trans Am & buffed up the rims.
    What type of wheel & what colour would be best? Vid's table on the first page says to use a 'string' buffer & blue compound. I'll have to make sure I've got blue. What a 'string' buffing wheel?
    Then again, maybe I'm being too anal. The solvent will probably end up making the edges clear anyways.

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