Recent content by smak

Its been a while since my last visit but i got to be honest i havent been detailing my cars all that often of late.. motorcycles either. I try to keep things neat though and often throw a coat or two on, and a quick detailer. One product that has always been a staple in my arsenal though.. is...

if you were thrown into another detailers garage, a "typical" detailer or non-autopian if you will.. do you think you could make due and put out your usual quality finish? would you even make an attempt? i am going to be doing a few cars in the coming week/s for a guy who has quite the...

has anyone had issues armouralling or applying QD to the slider area (shiny) of a hood shock or motorcycle (or vertical door system) shock? apparently they are all self lubricating and the seals very sensative to third party lubricants. supposedly just cleaning the slider with a clean rag...

Some of the aftermarket vertical door kits are hit and miss these days and i was wondering if any of you know of a product that may cover my needs here. it seems vertical doors dont always line the door up just right when closing and sometimes chip off sections of paint in the doorjam if you...

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=92623 for $30 bucks.. can i go wrong? comes with a backing plate even.

just got a chance to test drive a recently purcahsed grecian wonder sponge i found at an advance auto in new britain the other day.. look like its a man made attempt to improve on the natural softness and porus nature of a true natural sponge. i am pretty impressed actually. thinking of...

have half a bottle of z8, would trade for vm or pb spray on rinse off wheel cleaner. prefer not to ship it.

heya.. i have about 1/2 a bottle of z8 left (purchased last year but stored indoors over winter) and have given up on it.. just finding it too tempormental about application in direct sun, hazing easily if not applied right with spotless applicators etc.. z6 is plenty impressive for me. if...

this past weekend i tried topping zaino with souveran on a black eclipse. there could have been contributing factors such as temp/humidity but i found the two completly incompatible. any amount of qd with crystal mist would not remove the streaking on the hood. i may have applied the...

okay this was definatly a learning experience in the aspect of photographing the detail process.. i really should have taken a before-before shot or two, with car dirty.. increased image size to full 2.1mp mode, not taken shots into the sun (duh).. and remembered the areas i zoomed in on...

http://www.toolsofthetrade.net/articles/showarticle.asp?articleID=1583&position=2&type=article&partID=1 compares various D/A units including the makita and porter cable offerings. good read, although its based on sanding applications.

could you do everything a orbital could do with a quality rotary? i'm wondering if i should even bother getting a PC? just step up to the metabo and be done with it. how much vibration does the PC generate? like a pager on vibe mode, more.. less? i'm thinking that using a quality...

i've got (more than) a bit of a crack in my dashboard and was wondering if theres anything out there you guys have used that works well to minimize/hide the damage. replacing with new dash is not an option (very labour itensive) i seem to recall watching infomercials in the past claiming...

I'm trying to broaden my horizons here but all these new products i'm learning about are hard to keep track of. would it be possible to get by with just a PC, optimum polish and nattys blue.. if all you detail are dark cars with med/light swirls? with a cutting and finishing pad for the...