Wow - you should not have to press hard with the polisher - I'm wondering
if you were spinning to fast and not letting the polish do its job - the
rest I agree with you several passes and lots of time.
To me polishing is not difficult - kind of a zen thing..... :-)
Ken
>Marc,
>
>About halfway through cutting the oxide off our 1960 Pacer I got an email
>from a friend who had done it. His words have stuck with me:
>"Grinding the crust off an old Airstream is hard work!"
>
>That's what you're really up against--"grinding the crust off". Aluminum
>oxide is hard--that's why they use it for an abrasive! And you will
>probably find, like I did, that a lot of streaks and pits show up when you
>get into the job.
>
>Sad to day, it does take a lot of work--3 passes with F7 on a rotary
>polisher is about right, and it can take more. I used a Milwaukee
>professional body-shop type polisher that turns pretty fast, too. Count
>on going through several wool polishing bonnet.
>
>I personally found that when "grinding the crust off" that it paid to use
>more Nuvite than Perfect Polish recommends and to press *hard* on the
>polisher. I would lean on the Milwaukee till it started to slow down--and
>that's about a 3 HP polisher! There's definitely a learning curve
>involved--the last panel took me much less time than the the first
>panel. And you will find variations in the metal from one panel to the next.
>
>Needless to say,scaffolding is a must. You can't put the necessary "lean"
>on the polisher working from a ladder.
>
>Good luck. Everybody who has polished an old one knows what you're up
>against.
>
>See you down the road,
>
>John & Barbara Sellers
>WBCCI/VAC #1587
>1960 Pacer
>Dayton, Ohio