Okay so our repair is going to start
with this is 
consider very severe scratching which
we've done with a 200 grit diamond pad
as you can see the scratches through the
Quartz and the resin okay so we have a
nice circle. See the scratches? See it's
definitely hazy? Okay so we're going to
bring this up I'm going to quickly go
through the steps just to show you where
you need to be in order to start with
the Quartz Renew. Okay so the
scratching that we have in the quartz
top is 200 grit level, we've done some
quick polishing with that 200 soma pad
and we're going to work our way up from
here so I'm going to the 400 grit pad
and I'm going to lightly mist my area
I've already traced around the haze that
was there with the China pencil you know
whatever works for you China pencil
works great but does help you keep
focused on the area that you're
polishing without making your area too
large. So and using the soma pads we
are going to use a slightly higher rpm
than we would with a resin pad. Resin pad
we would go love, very low rpms and at 7 or 800
range.
I'll go slightly higher with this with
wet but I want to go much over a
thousand as we do not have a water feed
and primarily the reason for keeping the
RPMs low is so that your water is not
evaporating  you know so quickly that
you can
keep the top wet, so we keep a low rpm,
low feed rate, water will pretty much
stay on the surface and you don't have
to mist the top every couple seconds to
keep it wet. As soon as the product gets
as soon as the area gets dry so you have
a high potential of burning  the resin
on the top very quickly. So when you're
lower low rpms, plenty water low feed
rate.
Okay so we're at the 800 grit level
now with the Soma pads and we've
removed our damage but as you can see
during that process as which happens
with quartz is the Snake Skin has been
removed, or at least partially removed
during the process. So trying to get a good
shot here where you can really see the
difference in the Snake Skin between the
factory level which is here, and where
we've been polishing which is right
there. and this is my black color and as
you notice they react quite differently
to polishing okay but pretty much the
same effect with my black piece as you
can see it's my Snake Skin back here and
kind of a glass-like finish on my my
polished area. Okay it's really no
Snake Skin at all.
Okay so we worked our way up through the
800 grit level with the Soma Pads and
now we're going to do the last step of
polishing with the pads. This is 1500
grit the polishing we've been doing up
to this point has been a low rpm, slow
feed rate and to get a nice even finish
1500 while traditionally the resin pads
would go for 3,000 this stops at 1500
and this would be completely dry. All the
previous steps we did wet and the last
step will have to be dry the pad is such
a fine grit that if you do it wet it
will gum up immediately and you won't
get good results. So this will be
completely dry and higher rpm. We're
going to run around 1800 rpm and this
makes pretty quick work of it. This will
be the last step like I said and it will
it will pop the color pretty quickly and
we will also move across the surface
quickly as well.
A 1500 grit Soma pad polishing and as
you can see there's a little bit of
residual hazing at this point, our
Snake Skin is definitely gone, mostly gone
in our repair area, as you can see in the
forefront there the Snake Skin is pretty
prominent, that's the factory finish.
So the Quartz Renew™ will definitely take
it from here and so I wanted to
basically do this to give you a visual
to understand where you need to start
with this with the Quartz Renew™. Okay we
finished our 1,500 soma polishing,
we've removed all of our damage and you
know brought our gloss level up so that
as much as we can go with the pads. So
show you on each piece here. There's the
black you can see the Snake Skin has
been removed and most of our repair area.
Our sheen is is almost there. The Quartz
Renew™ should be able to take it from
here without too much struggle, but you
can see when I mentioned that there's
residual hazing and that's what the
Quartz Renew™ addresses, this is what I
mean
and so our color you know I would say
is about 80% so that's a point of
reference. The black is obviously
probably the hardest color to work on so
that's why I want to show this as an
example, and here's a typical color, this
is probably 80% of the colors out there
and the states anyway or this type of
color and it's definitely a little more
forgiving but as you can see the
Snake Skin is also gone  in our repair area here and you can
see from that level. So the Quartz Renew™ will
definitely take it from here.
