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Easy Buffing Buffing Made Easy With Presta Products Presta Products are water based compounds are very easy to clean out of jambs, require very little product to use and they are very inexpensive as the typical gallon of compound or polish sells for about $40.00-$49.00 per gallon. The Presta finish will look the same after the car has been washed or set out in the sun! Light and Dark color cars for a show car shine: Step 1. Wet sand with 1200-2000 grit then begin buffing with Presta Ultra Cutting Crème with a Black Presta twisted wool pad. Twisted wool is very important as it cuts twice as fast as non-twisted wool pad. If you aren’t sure what type of pad you have ask your paint store. Place a quarter-sized glob on the panel and place the center of the buffer on top of this glob as this will keep you from slinging compound all over the place. Wool pads are designed to cut fast only at high speeds between 2200-2800 RPM’s. If you are afraid to run the buffer this fast then throw the wool pad away and get a cutting foam pad and anticipate on spending twice as much time buffing and using twice as much product. Now buff a 2’x2’ square at a time with the Ultra Cutting Crème until all the scratches in that area are gone. Buff clean. Step 2. Once you have removed your scratches with the Ultra Cutting Crème switch to a Presta Green wool pad and buff at the same RPM’s with Presta 1500 Polish. Start with a drop the size of a dime and work a 2’x2’ area. Buff clean. If you ever have a greasy surface then you used way too much polish. 2-3 quarter sized blobs of Presta 1500 will do an ENTIRE full size pickup hood! If a show car shine is not needed you can stop here. Step 3. for a show car finish. Now switch to a Presta Blue foam polishing pad and Presta 1500 Polish. Foam pads work best around 1500-1800 RPM’s. Start with a blob the size of a dime and work a 2’x2’ area. Complete the panel then with the remaining polish that is in your pad after spritzing the panel with Presta Aurora 4000 Spray N’ Shine. This will pull the polish out of the pad and break it down into a finer polish creating a glass smooth finish. Repeat this step as many times as you like if you are looking for a very deep show car shine. Short cut: Light colored cars in a production shop: Follow step one from above. With the Ultra Cutting Crème left on the panel switch to a Presta Green wool pad and spritz the panel with Aurora 4000. Buff at 2300-2800 rpm’s working a 2’x2’ area at a time until the panel is complete. This will provide a great finish on 99% of your light colored cars in a production shop. Presta Products will work with foam pads, but you will NEVER find a foam-cutting pad that will cut as fast a wool-cutting pad. If you use foam pads anticipate using more product and time to buff and this is true with any compound line out there! Presta’s doubled-sided long-lasting pads are usually less than $21 each to the shop (2 sides to buff with remember?).Presta’s long lasting single-sided Velcro pads are usually less than $11 each to the shop.Presta offers a kit with one each double-sided black wool, green wool and blue foam plus a free quick release spindle for you buffer for less than $63 to the shop. Presta is all we buff with. Period.
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