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I need to remove the orange peel texture from my painted parts. I will sand the flaws to remove them.
But then I need to use finer and finer sandpaper to prepare to buff and polish the paint to a mirror finish.
This evening I'm learning how much work it takes to sand away the flaws, and what grit to use. (400? 600?)
And I'm learning how much work is needed at finer grits to prepare for buffing.
If you have ever ground and polished glass, this will be a familiar process.
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@KrajciTom I'd go to 1200 grit paper before starting to use the paste (applied with a spinning wool pad, in a cordless drill in my case). I've got a day of polishing winglet moulds ahead! Always worth spending more time than you think with the coarser grades, it's so depressing when you get to what you think Is the final polish and you find marks appear that you need to go back to coarse again to remove! Be really sure you've done enough with one grade before you move to the next.