[VAC] Re: another polishing technique

["Kenneth E. Johansen" <johansen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Having done a fair amount of polishing on my trailers and being on this and
other lists for the past four years I offer these observations.

Any agressive abrasives like you are using have, in the past, only been
used for taking out scratches.  I think the risk you run is taking off more
material that you need or want to.  As you are aware you want to be careful
that you are not polishing through the alcad.  I would think it would be
hard to control the amount of material that you are taking off using an
agressive (600 is much more agressive than polish) method.  I think that
using the polishing compounds that you can easily stop at the level of
shine you want.  Yea it takes more time, not necessarily more work.  If its
more work, your probably not letting the polish do the work for you.

In my view, I would take my time doing a section at a time and I think you
will be very pleased with the result.

The good thing about polishing is that once it is done, it only requires an
annual once over with a no-grit or minimal grit polish.

Ken Johansen
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