That time a painter at a local shop showed me I was buffing wrong for 3 years

Honestly, I was at Allstar Collision in Houston last month watching a guy knock out a Mercedes hood. He looked at my buffer and just laughed, said I was running it too slow and using too much compound. Called me over and showed me a two step process with a wool pad at 1800 rpm and then foam at 1200. I tried it on my own car that night and got a finish with zero haze for the first time. Has anyone else had an old timer wreck their whole technique in like two minutes?

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brookerobinson22h agoMost Upvoted

Did you check your pad angle too? Running it flat like that at those speeds might be why you were getting the haze before.

ryan_clark4012h ago

Yeah I read somewhere that running pads dead flat can trap heat and cause glazing. Heard a slight toe-in helps with that.