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Haven't been on the forum for a very long time owing in part to illness and then starting a PhD in Physics which has taken up a lot of my time... But I'm happily settled into my PhD now and feeling miles better (dropping in weight to just 6.5stone aint fun!) and have been back to detailing now...

Well this was a tough old day! Am a bit demorlaised today, this car exhibting what appeared to below sub-laquer swirls (not impacted by Power Gloss, despite 10um of clear removed per set) which detracted from the finish unfortunately... Nothing I can do, I know, but still gutting... at least...

An early start for me today, 6am, to travel down to Ayr to detail a lovely Porsche. Bryan unfortunately was at work today, so only one half of the Krankies was on this detail... Arrived in Ayr nice and early, the weather was looking good and the new sat nav I bought for the car (TomTom 501)...

Second detail of the weekend was a rather nice metallic black BMW 330Cd cabriolet. Full Krankies team on this one! :thumb: While I was commuting home from Ayr last night, Bryan did the inital prep work on this car. The cabriolet hood was treated using the Autoglym Fabric Hood Kit, I'm...

Well this car was a shock indeed... First thing to point out is that this car has been "professionally" machine polished by a bodyshop. When I heard about the car, I though "hmmm, maybe a few holograms then but nothing too bad surely". Then I turned up at Bryan's this morning, and I swear the...

Hi guys, How do I check the gearbox oil in the Makita 9227 rotary, and what is the best lube out there for these gearboxes? Cheers. :)

Okay, performed a test recently on a scrap panel to test the ability of a variety of products to remove swilrs by hand for those who dont have access to a machine polisher. Each product was tested on a small area of a red metallic bonnet, pre-washed with some steelwool. This left light...

An early start todau, up a 6am, and get ready and met up with Bryan at 7am for the drive through to detail this lovely car - a metallic black Porsche 911 GT3. The car on arrival looked pretty clean: A quick discussion with the owner revealed that he uses the two-bucket method and a...

A detailing supplier who I purchase a lot of product from is considering bringing Menzerna pads to the UK, so sent me a couple to try out as a sample. So trial them I did, and I thought I would share my personal findings. These pads I have not seen in the UK before, they may be popular in the...

Decided to compare the finish achieved by the rotary and the PC suing a couple of finsihing polishes: Tools: Makita 9227CB; Porter Cable 7424 Polishes: Meguiars #80 Speed Glaze; Menzerna PO85RD Final Finish Meguiars #80 A light cutting polish, there are lighter abbrassive in the...

The paint on a car with a clearcoat is made of usually of two or three stages: primer, colour coat and lacquer. When polishing, either by hand or machine, we are abbradding away a very small layer of the lacquer/clear coat in order to remove the paint defects. If you polish too far using...

Thought I would post up my learning process with Farecla G3 for fun, and to show that just because you dont get the results you want first time round, doesn't mean that the product is bad - just means your technique needed altering a bit, as mine did for the G3. :) Now, I've been using the...

Another Each One Teach One PC session today! :) Took a trip up to Montrose to visit Malcom44 from the forum and Tommy (Bainie from DW) popped down from Aberdeen for the day too... Not intending to do a full detail here, the point of the day being to show various products on the PC...

Bryan and I took a trip through to the west coast today to visit Chris (PuntoGT), and give Bryan's car its pre-winter exterior detail... The Signum was in very good condition as you'd expect, only minor swilring on the paintwork from an incident with concrete dust... :( This was soon to be...

Paid John, a fellow member of a detailing form, a visit today to go over some techniques for using the PC to get the best results on his Astra VXR. Rather than doing a full detail on the car, the point of the day was to show John my techniques for using the PC and to help him get started in the...

Today's Dundee Tag Team detail - a 1987 Lotus Excel, in solid white. The car arrived yesterday evening with Bryan, so he got started preparing the car for polighint then... Here's the car on arrival: Bryan TFR'd the car first with Autoglym Power Max 3, then washed using the...

After the marathon detail on the Rolls Royce Slver Ghost, the black residue from the bare metal covered the Porter Cable! So, decided that I couldn't possibly detail a painted car with the PC in that state, so it had to be cleaned... Neither water not Fairy Liquid looked at it, as the...

Guys and gals, this is a huge write up and is gonna take me a fair old while to post up as will need to be done in separate posts.... Please bare with me, hope you enjoy the thread! :up

Couldn't resist taking a photo of this while I was along at the Rolls Royce detail!! :chuckle:

Could this be my detail of the year??? Aint no paint or coating here... So we set to first off by hand on a test section on the bonnet: But still many swirls, so switched to PC: Not bad considering this is bare aluminium we're polishing here - full defect removal is...