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Originally Posted by radroach
@ Sam86
Here's how you would normally apply a compound and polish out a panel:
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differences of opinion
other than for wowzah before/after pictures, i hate the tape method across the fender-- it's creating a hard line that you end up polishing too much on one side of, and not enough on the other side of. yes, it's easily correctable, but i don't like creating more issues for the future...
that's also about twice as much compound as i use now
i'm at the point where i drag the compound bottle across the fender in a single line, lay a very thin/spotty 1/8-1/4" bead, and then use the pad to work it around the rest of the fender. generally that 1/8-1/4" bead covers up to a about a 10-12" area.
on doors, i'll do a 3-point squiggle from top to bottom to get all of it covered, with a touch of extra compound in the door pull area for hand polishing.
but remember, i'm using a rotary polisher-- i migrated to this technique because i got tired of putting it on the pad, dab it around, and then having half of it spin off when i started it up!