What's your secret recipe to make old paint shine? I'm working on 80 year old black paint and useing Dupont Number 7 chrome polish. So far of the differant things I've tried it works the best. What do you use??
You might try some 3M Super Duty. Its about the oldest compound out there I can think of and can bring some shine out of most anything. It does a "rough" job of it though. You will want to step it up to a less agressive compund after using the super duty first.
ok so are you guys being serious or just joking? Sometimes its hard to tell sarcasume for a serious reply!
I use 3m finesse it. The stuff isn't cheap, but a little goes a long way and you can hand polish with it. I polished the paint on an 1957 pontiac that had been sitting for 30 years,turned out great, didn't make it look new but still was way better than average.
I don't use polish at all, I use WAX. A good "cleaning" liquid wax has a bit of polishing compound in it, but it also seals the paint as you buff. I've done this with some very old, very oxidized paint and sometimes the results are stunning. The Turtle Wax color match stuff is nice, but you can only do a very small area at a time because it dries hard and dull too fast. Nu Finish works nicely, too. Ignore the directions, and use it like polishing compound: put a little on the rag, rub like hell until it's shiny, and then move on to the next patch.
My dad talks about how the guys who drove those big Dodge army trucks during the war in Korea would actually use motor oil on the paint to make them shine. Then one trip down a dirt road and they we covered in dust. So go ahead and oil it up. Just dont drive it anywhere. Ha.
haha yeah thats what i was told too just dont drive on dirt roads...some old guys around here in the 50's had black model a's and wanted them to look good so the rubbed em down with motor oil
Hey, Diesel#1 and cornstarch. Diesel #2 has to much oil in it, but that's probably not a bad thing if the finish is really dried out. Just plan on washing it often. Other, more aggresive compounds and polishes are out there, but may cut more paint than you're after! Swankey Devils C.C. "Meanwhile, back aboard the Tainted Pork"
I've posted this before,but here goes..I get a 25 liter bucket of cold water,squirt liquid bath cleaner into it just a squirt is plenty ( Jif ,is what I use here... not too sure in other parts of the world) and mix it all up,then using soft cloths ,wash the car completely with it. a rinse off with clear water gets rid of any remaining Jif and the oxides etc are all gone and the car is shiney again.To keep the shine i use Farecla polish,it's a high end pro product,not cheap but gives the very best results. To bring laquer back up,spray the car with laquer thinners( IF you can find it),as if you are painting it. Really old trick from the 30's which does wonders.
Great tech for rubbing out older paint jobs. http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=184233
talcum powder cotton diaper. soft rubber squeegee or an old wiper blade johnsons paste wax make a paste outta the talc with water till its a lil thicker than pancake batter. fold the diaper in half. make a pocket and fill it with some of the talc paste. fold the ends in so you can twist the ends to keep the paste inside, but still fill it up again. wet an area 2'x2' with water, sprinkle LIGHTLY with dry talc, then rub away with the pocket of talc/diaper... use a spray bottle and squeegee the dirty talc-paste off as it gets the oxidation off the surface. once you have a large area free of oxidation, wax with the johnsons... talc is about the lightest abrasive that you can get, and it doesnt have the solvents to damage the surface like brasso or the like so it wont scratch hell out of the paint... you just wanna remove the oxidation, not whats left of the paint.
I use Maguire's Show Car glaze rubbed in and buffed out and Maguire's cleaner wax. It's the best for dark colors and is available almost anywhere.
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