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From last week's testing session with Gordon, Allie and myself, this was one was one of the biggest tests! Gordon and myself spent time with the machine doing the sets for this test :) Polishing technology that many of us are used to uses diminishing abrasives - abrasives that break down as...

The rotary polisher - fire breathing dragon that will burn paint as soon as look at it... Well, so the myth goes anyway ;) With many thanks to my girlfriend, Allie, and good friend Gordon, we set about introducing a total newbie to the rotary polisher with no prior experience of machine...

Dodo Juice (DJ) Lime Prime is a lightly abrasive paint cleanser that was developed for use by hand or machine to prepare paint finishes for the application of a wax. In my eyes, this product was designed for either enhancing a finish by hand where a machine polish is not possible or for use...

3M Ultrafina SE is an oily light cutting finishing polish that was designed to remove holograms left by more aggressive cutting compounds. The product can also be used for light correction on many finishes as well when used with a polishing or finishing pad. The product is marketed as being...

It has been a while since I last used a rotary polisher in anger, but with my car looking a bit sorry for itself, I decided to spend the week of good weather tinkering away small bit at a time to get it looking back in shape again :) I stopped detailing professionally at the end of last year...

Another example thread, this time looking at removal rates and correction achieved from the full Menzerna range of polishes. The point - to see how the polishes perform, what paint removal corresponds to what correction, the abilities of the polishes and at the end, where it all goes wrong...

Search the forums and you will find thousands of threads about the correction of defects from paint - hard paint, soft paint, white paint, black paint, pink paint etc etc etc... But you'll also notice a complete dearth of threads about removing defects from glass! In this thread I am going to...

One of the most important factors of polishing, be that by hand or by mahcine, is the amount of paint that you are removing from the car with any given polishing method. In this thread, I am going to outline an example of a car which is being polished and the amount of paint removed by each set...

This Sunday past was the first Aston Martin that I have detailed, and I have been looking forward to it for quite some time :D On arrival, the car was already in superb condition - a credit to its keeper, the paintwork was in excellent condition with little or no swirls, and the whole car...

The owner of this Audi A4 Sportline, in black, contacted us when he was concerned with marks on the back of his car and that machine polishing didn't seem to be making them better... It was only on a few section, mainly the rear 3/4s where some scratches had been removed, and you could see the...

The subject of saturday's tuition detail was a rather tidy looking Skoda Fabia VRS belonging to Paul, a DW member :) The car on arrival showed typical road grime, and some flies from its drive up, and underneath the dirt you could start to make out a bit of flatness to the paintwork...

As a thank you for being my advanced driving observer, I offered to detail Iain's Volvo S80 V8... But as part of the fun of detailing, we organised a small team to work on the car: myself, Gordon (caledonia), Iain himself, and Craig. The plan was to do a full detail on the car, and enjoy the...

As a detailer who likes the social side of what I do, tuition details are one of my favourite parts of detailing - working with someone and teaching the detailing process on a car as you see the results for yourself. Very rewarding :) The subject of today's tuition detail belongs to Stuart...

Perfection is a strong word, but the condition in which the car of today's detail turned up has to be the best I have seen - there was hardly a mark on the car, just a light hologram on a rear 3/4... Nearly three years old but only a few thousand miles, the current and previous owner clearly...

The thickness of paint on a car determines how aggressively it can be polished in the quest to remove surface imperfections such as swirl marks or scratches. Assessing what thickness of paint is “healthy� and what is “thin� however is very difficult and requires a lot more effort than...

Its called Ultra Finishing Polish and uses Meguiars' new Super Micro Abrasive Technology (SMAT) [am I the only one who thinks SPLAT when I read/type that?!:lol:]... Its been designed to rock the best and be the best finishing polish on the market, no doubting, Meguiars have gone for the jugular...

The second Ferrari 360 detail I have been involved with in the past month, I'm starting to generate a soft spot for these cars - maybe Diane will let me buy one, who knows... :D The car is owned by Jim, who has put up with my coffee drinking habbits on a couple of previous details, including...

The subject of Saturday's tuition detail, this Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch... The car is owned by Helen, MissyR on the forum, who is already experienced with a DA polisher but fancied learning how to use the rotary :) Gordon (caledonia) was also along for the day to help out...

Its been a cracking day of detailing, the main focus of which was MissyR's white Astra Sporthatch, writeup to follow in the next couple of days when I sort through the piccies... But one things caught my eye today, and that was the bonnet on Gordon's (caldeonia) car... It had just been...

Some pics from today's walk up Ben Lawers, nr. Killin in Scotland. Ben Lawers... From summit of Ben Lawers: Yes, I made it: and so did Diane... Celebrating our engagement with a Munro climb :) More from the summit...