Which comes first the Chicken or the Egg ? My question is my 170B is hand polished but not yet like a mirror? The paint stripe needs to be redone. Paint chipped and not good. What should I do smooth the paint out thats on there and repaint over it, or strip it off. Then repaint and polish, or polish then paint ? Thanks for your ideas.
Bill
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Speaking from experience, paint first. No matter how hard you try you are going to mess up the polish when you paint. After the paint has throughly cured tape off the paint with 1" and 2" blue painters tape to protect it when polishing with anything other than the finest grade of polish (such as Nuvite S). The only time I don't tape is when I am doing a quick, light touch-up polish. The proper way to do the paint is to strip it off and repaint.
Perfect polish has some good info on stripping. http://perfectpolish.com/paint_stripper.htm
Perfect polish has some good info on stripping. http://perfectpolish.com/paint_stripper.htm
John
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