Tomsdad
New member
Hi everyone. I’m looking for advice on compounding and polishing. The boat is a Birchwood 25 1975 ish. Now I have detailed many cars in my time but always with a dual action (DA) polisher and foam pads. The combination of different coloured pad and different compounds gives me the control.
But now thinking of the boat it seems that a rotary polisher is needed along with wool pads.
So first off. Is the rotary polisher a must?
Second do you use only wool pads or a combination of both?
The initial work will be in localised areas doing chips and redoing poor repairs. So very small and very localised. So used in the prepping of the repair area ( getting rid of oxidation) and then after applying the gelcoat filler, wet sand then compounding and polishing to get best result possible.
But at some stage the boat will come out of the water where I will de oxidise the whole boat.
But now thinking of the boat it seems that a rotary polisher is needed along with wool pads.
So first off. Is the rotary polisher a must?
Second do you use only wool pads or a combination of both?
The initial work will be in localised areas doing chips and redoing poor repairs. So very small and very localised. So used in the prepping of the repair area ( getting rid of oxidation) and then after applying the gelcoat filler, wet sand then compounding and polishing to get best result possible.
But at some stage the boat will come out of the water where I will de oxidise the whole boat.