Buffing Question?

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Shawn - in ID

>I'm new to the buffing game but it sounds like you used too much wax.

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adrien

>Did you let the Waterlox dry between coats?

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Fog Tanner

>I have used the Beall system on pieces that were oiled with mineral oil, an hour after they were finished with no problems. The lesson I learned about the system, is it doesn't really take a lot of wax to load the wheel. Running at 1750 rpm, I hold the wax on the wheel for 1-2 seconds. This is sufficient to wax a bowl. I made the mistake on my first bowl of really loading the wheel, and got a gummy surface with little bits of wax smeared on it. Like in hot rodding "if one 's good two 's better", if two seconds were good in the instructions - 10 has to be a lot better - riiight. After the wax wore off the wheel, it has worked great ever since.

Ding! Ding! Ding!

Mike Schwing from Md.

>We have a couple of winners. I'd put money on it that there is too much wax, especially if the problem didn't surface with the tripoli or white diamond. Like they said, just "scare" the wheel by showing it the wax block, thats about enough.

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Sean Troy

>You can clean the wax buffing wheel by lightly and for a few seconds, holding a hack saw blade, teeth to the wheel.Of course while its spinning. Sounds crazy but works well for me. Good luck, Sean

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Gil Milone

>An old jewelers trick, take a file and hold the main part of the file in your hands. Use the point of the file IE the handle to clean the buff while the machine is turned on. Jewelers buffs always get caked with Tripoli.

-Gil

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Kevin Gerstenecker

>Gil has it right. You can clean the wheel using the file handle, or even a straight screwdriver. This is a trick I learned years ago from a buddies Dad who was a Auto Body Man. He always used a screwdriver to clean the bonnet of rubbing compound when buffing a paint job. He called it "Spurring" the wheel. That old, dried crusty compound would just fly right off the buffing bonnet and it was soft and fluffy and ready to go again. I have tried the same thing with my Tripoli Wheel for my Beall, and it works like a charm!

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Don Pencil

>Metal may discolor the wheel. If you put it in the washing machine you can start from scratch and it will work very well.

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John Bussom

>Don,

you did mean to mention the laundromat :)

LOML would really frown if I used ours!

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John Lucas

>John Send her to the mall with your credit card then use the washing machine. It costs a hell of lot more but you get the job done.

Heat?

TDaniel

>Jack, did you get the finish too hot while buffing? The Waterlox will gum up if overheated, expecially if it hasn't had a couple of week's of cure time.

TD

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Jack Freeman

>Thanks a lot for all the great suggestions, I think the waterlox was about 5 days old on the last coat and the wax was built up on the buff wheel.

Thanks

Jack