Quote Originally Posted by 35chevy View Post
Pat, Have you tried scuff gel? We used to sand for blending but we started using scuff gel and the gold scuff pads and we'll never go back. We've been using it 4-5 years now I think. I remember at a paint school once a dupont rep said to soak the yellow backed paper in water a while before using it which would soften it up a bit, you ever heard that? I tried it and it seems to help a bit. I've had problems with metallics standing up in the sand scratches, silver to name one, when I used to prepare the panel with paper before blending. The scuff gel helped that problem.
no i was getting out of the body work full time when the gold back paper was coming out and the junk 3m green tape.the soak in water deal works on the hard back paper and i did for cut and buffing paper 1000 and up .but the 400to 600 yellow back to me is just to coarse. for blending i used 800 on a da and then wet sanded to 1000. or some times just sanded it with 1000 no da with 800. that had a lot to do with how big of a blend on a car with lets say a fender i blend the hood the door and cleared the hole side of the car if the front door needed work i push paint in to the next panle we called them 5 mile blends