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Polish/Compound Abrasive Chart

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Polish/Compound Abrasive Chart

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Handy info to have kicking around if you're venturing down the machine polisher route soon :good:

http://www.dano.pocketrubbish.com/detai ... tchart.htm

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Menzerna IP and Final Finish also contain optical fillers :yup:
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It's like looking into the mind of a mad man... I can see it, but it makes no sense, lol.
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Funky Diver wrote:It's like looking into the mind of a mad man... I can see it, but it makes no sense, lol.
Optical fillers fill in swirls and marring using fillers contained in the polish, these are usually Kaolin/china clay, this will leave the surface optically smoother, basic physics tells us that the angle of incidence = the angle of reflection; the smoother the surface the better the reflection. :hugegrin: Hope this makes more sense :yup: It gets worse the deeper you understand Detailing, dont worry we wont talk about the Cloud Point of surfactants quite yet :chortle:
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