Wet sand & Buff

[tengals123]

As you all know my painting of my boat in 2 part is finished. I have a question for anyone who has ever worked with 2 part paint ( pref. on a boat)<br />I'm tossing up between leaving the paint as it is ( nice ) or wet sanding with like 2000grit and buffing with a machine and compound of some sort. What are the pro's and con's of both? Anything I should really look out for?<br /><br /><br />cheers

 

[Mark42]

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The responses to this one should be interesting! Kinda like the buffing gel coat questions!

 

[tengals123]

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yeah i know. Still waiting for a response though. <br /><br />cheers

 

[Pun]

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Some specs on the paint would help...

 

[Realgun]

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Tengals that looks so good why do you want to start messing with it? I say leave it alone for a month then just coat it with wax.

 

[Dunaruna]

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Tengals, try and get lubedudes attention, he'll know (I think).<br /><br />From my limited knowledge, you'd want to wait a few weeks for it to dry rock hard before you touch it with paper.<br /><br />Aldo

 

[flashback]

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Hey tengals, hows it going? I don't think you can get all ten gals in that boat at one time, so just make 5 trips with 2 at a time.. . That is one beautious boat you have built..as for sanding and buffing the paint, I have done it with imron only to get orange peel out of it, some may dis-agree, but I think you will shorten the life of the gloss by sanding and buffing. my question is, why would you want to?? it looks great as it is.!!!!

 

[tengals123]

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thanks heaps guys. I think i'll just leave it 'as is'. It has great gloss and only a tiny bit of orange peel.<br /><br /><br />cheers

 

[oceansbreeze]

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Wow! What a fantastic restoration!! I can't WAIT to see the final result, the paint looks AWESOME! I'll be watching your project site for more pics!

 

[tengals123]

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thanks heaps oceansbreeze. If you want to catch up from start to finish on this project read my thread ' Cruise Craft Restoration'<br />Thanks for the post, hopefully will have some new pics in the next few days.<br /><br />cheers