Thumbs up to 3M Finesse It!

[Tanner]

So I spent some time tonight polishing the boat with 3M finesse it tonight! GREAT STUFF.

I had some scuff marks on the transom that wouldn't ever come out w/ just plain buffing and wax. This stuff took them out, as well as the yellowing I was noticing! I even went in and sanded on the rubrail with 1500 grit paper. I figured I'd need some rubbing compound between the 1500 and this stuff. Nope.... took the micro scratches right out.

Be warned though.... if your using this stuff around metal with a buffer, it will polish your metal as well. Thus giving you that black gunk that comes off of the metal and getting all over your gelcoat. The rubrail was a pain in the butt b/c of this. But all you had to do was take some on a wax pad and buff off the black marks by hand with very little rubbing.

***WARNING - Disclaimer***
If you've never used a high speed buffer before, be warned... as you could burn through your gel coat if not careful! Don't say I didn't warn you!

[bfrank]

Where did you but this at??

[spharis]

On burning through the gelcoat.....don't be intimidated. It's way thicker than car paint. My gelcoat is about 10mil.

[hoopykat]

Boatersworld.com has it, as well as Amazon.com. Google search for 3M Finesse It and there are lots of options.

Mike

[NICKYPOO]

I've never been disappointed with any 3M product, ever. The Finesse It is good stuff. Be sure to wax it after you buff it. So far a burning the gel coat, you really have to lay into it to burn through, especially with the Finesse It. Buffers do bite however. When buffing a boat you are especially at risk as you are generally bent over when doing the bottom half. TUCK YOUR SHIRT IN! I've seen a buddy of mine get eaten up twice now (we used to have a detail shop). This one time he got the buffer hung up in his shirt and it sucked it around the pad and ended up pulling in some of the skin on his belly. His hand was sucked up in the shirt and he couldn't let go of the trigger. It just kept trying to eat him. Just seeing him in that possision and the sheer look of pain and horror on his face still make me laugh. "Ahhhhh, unplug it, unplug it!" Oh man that was funny. He had this big red swirl on his belly for a couple of days after. Ah, memories. So beware, buffers bite.

The other time he had the tie string on his appron that went around the neck hanging down over his shoulder. The buffer grabbed it and started wrapping it up. It happened so fast that it climbed the sting and popped him in the face and gave him a fat lip. "What happened to you?" "I got hit by a buffer." HeHe.

[Tequilasun]

Reminds me of a guy that worked in my dad's machine shop. He never could remember to take the chuck key out of the drill press. That thing would zing him all the time. Ha ha.



He even left it in on time, and another guy turned the drill press on and the Chuck key sailed off, hit a cabinet, and still hit the careless guy upside the head.

Some people are just prone to accidents.