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2013-14 Shelby GT500
Polished Blowers are nice but damn,
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<blockquote data-quote="CV355" data-source="post: 16178700" data-attributes="member: 181885"><p>A year ago, I would have disagreed with you and swore up and down about how "microfiber is so soft, there's no possible way to scratch with them!"</p><p></p><p>After having hand-polished as much as I could in the engine bay of my Mach 1, I have sworn OFF microfiber for finishing polishing aluminum. I designed a radiator bracket, had it CNC machined out of 6061, and decided to polish it to a mirror finish. Microfiber worked for the heavier cutting but I could never quite get it to "mirror finish" without it scratching to hell and back. A co-worker told me that during his years as a moldmaker, he kept a supply of felt and extra soft toilet paper. Toilet paper, of all things. That was the ticket.</p><p></p><p>I use microfiber pads for paint correction, but finish with foam. I don't quite understand how MF scratches the way it does when you get down to the finest levels of polishing. Polyamide MF isn't that hard, but even the ultra-soft ones still friggin scratch. The only thing I can think of is that like-scratches-like, and the MF pile captures larger "chips" than a "flatter" medium, and then in turn those larger chips leave larger scratches. There's physics at work somewhere...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CV355, post: 16178700, member: 181885"] A year ago, I would have disagreed with you and swore up and down about how "microfiber is so soft, there's no possible way to scratch with them!" After having hand-polished as much as I could in the engine bay of my Mach 1, I have sworn OFF microfiber for finishing polishing aluminum. I designed a radiator bracket, had it CNC machined out of 6061, and decided to polish it to a mirror finish. Microfiber worked for the heavier cutting but I could never quite get it to "mirror finish" without it scratching to hell and back. A co-worker told me that during his years as a moldmaker, he kept a supply of felt and extra soft toilet paper. Toilet paper, of all things. That was the ticket. I use microfiber pads for paint correction, but finish with foam. I don't quite understand how MF scratches the way it does when you get down to the finest levels of polishing. Polyamide MF isn't that hard, but even the ultra-soft ones still friggin scratch. The only thing I can think of is that like-scratches-like, and the MF pile captures larger "chips" than a "flatter" medium, and then in turn those larger chips leave larger scratches. There's physics at work somewhere... [/QUOTE]
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