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justinmill14

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Getting ball to 1500 grit polished
« on: September 14, 2009, 07:19:35 AM »
Ok, I got the storm reacta shine which is supposed to finish the ball to 1500 grit and polish it. Well all it says on the directions is shake well and apply to ball with towel.

What grit should I have the ball at prior to adding the reacta shine?
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charlest

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Re: Getting ball to 1500 grit polished
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2009, 03:55:59 PM »
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Ok, I got the storm reacta shine which is supposed to finish the ball to 1500 grit and polish it. Well all it says on the directions is shake well and apply to ball with towel.

What grit should I have the ball at prior to adding the reacta shine?


My 2 cents:
Normally and generally, that means it will finish a ball to a maximum of 1500 grit. You can start anywhere you like (no sarcasm intended). Reacta Shine is supposed to have some abrasive in it, I believe. So it will smooth out (make finer) any grit level you start with, within reason (Don't start at 220 grit. ). For instance, it you sand a ball to 1000 grit US, then RS will take it up, depending on how much you apply, how hard you press and how long you let it stay on the spinner, to as fine as 1500 grit.

There is no exact way to tell to which level you have taken it, except by looks and remembering what you did (Note taking is recommended). But all that is, of course, not nearly as important as the ball doing what you need, with the shine/gloss/polish you applied.

Theoretically, Xtra Shine can POTENTIALLY take a ball to as fine a grit level as 3500 grit. So it says on its label. It also contains abrasive.


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icewall

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Re: Getting ball to 1500 grit polished
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2009, 04:35:37 PM »
this is my opinion on how I achieve very close results to 1500 grit polished.

grey pad on a spinner
then apply your favorite gritless polish

the grey pad is around 1500-1600 grit (P/Fepa scale <-- which is the same scale storm says the polish is based upon)

that is my preferred and easiest method but as charlest mentioned there is more then one way.

you could use 360, light 500 then step 2
or even 1000 abralon then reacta shine (but ive never tried this method)

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mmcfarland300

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Re: Getting ball to 1500 grit polished
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2009, 09:03:54 AM »
The proper way to do this which has been described by STorm is to sand the ball down to 360 then use 500 abralon, use the Storm Step 2 Compound and then use the Reacta Shine.
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icewall

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Re: Getting ball to 1500 grit polished
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2009, 12:49:50 PM »
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How close can you get by using a 2000abr pad and using a polish that has no grit in it like Power House FF.


the ball will go longer.

1500 grit polish is based on the p/fepa scale and so is abralon.

so the difference will be 500 grit
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