meeni wrote:
was it painted recently? if so sanding it is fine but make sure there is enough material to play with.
cutters wise anything from farecla, 3m or at work we use a new brand called juice but i dont know the availability of these brands to the public.
buy a cheap $60 buff from supercheap auto (the reason being dont spend 800 bucks on a buff that you will use once), not one of those buzzer ones but a proper machine buff that looks like a big angle grinder. ditch the wool pad, buy a foam one and use a medium compound cutters for your initial polish, then switch to a soft foam pad (all of these things are best bought through a panel industry distributor) and a swirl remover polish to get rid of your buff marks and really give it a deep shine, do one panel at a time and wipe the excess off before you move on and porvided you know how to use the buff in theory you should have a shiny mini.. finish with a hand wax.
cutters wise anything from farecla, 3m or at work we use a new brand called juice but i dont know the availability of these brands to the public.
buy a cheap $60 buff from supercheap auto (the reason being dont spend 800 bucks on a buff that you will use once), not one of those buzzer ones but a proper machine buff that looks like a big angle grinder. ditch the wool pad, buy a foam one and use a medium compound cutters for your initial polish, then switch to a soft foam pad (all of these things are best bought through a panel industry distributor) and a swirl remover polish to get rid of your buff marks and really give it a deep shine, do one panel at a time and wipe the excess off before you move on and porvided you know how to use the buff in theory you should have a shiny mini.. finish with a hand wax.
Couldn't have said it better myself
just make sure, like meeni said, that there is enough paint there to play with. Otherwise you will just cut-thru and then it'll need to be re-painted.
Also, remember that Acrylic gets soft with heat, so you need to take it slowly until you get the hang of it otherwise you can burn it, resulting in re-painting aswell.
