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How to use a microfiber bonnet to remove dried wax by machine Indigo on Hydro If you own a DA Polisher, like a Porter Cable, Meguiar’s or Griot’s Garage DA Polisher, then here’s how you can use your polisher to remove dried wax. Removing dried wax by machine works best when you apply a...

How to prime your buffing pads - How much product to use? Use an "ample" amount of product When I say use an ample amount of product this means don’t use too much product and don’t use to little product. From The Free Dictionary.com Out of the above definitions, I'm using the 3rd...

Tips on Taping Off Thin Paint and Chipped Paint When I first brought the 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass to the shop I had originally planned to carefully Dampsand the paint to remove all the swirls and sanding scratches left by the other guy... The first project I did was an article on how to...

Your Signature - Don't leave one... I don't know if any of you have another name or term for this issue... but here's what I use... Signature As in, leaving your signature on your car or your customer's car. It's actually a bad thing but as hard as you try and as careful as you might...

Tape it off and avoid a lifetime of ugly... So many times in my life when I've buffed out a classic car, when I first get to the car and inspect it I find compound and polish residue splattered into impossible to reach areas. A good example of this is the fresh air intake grill usually...

1960 Ford Ranchero - Extreme Makeover - M105/M205 Tag Team Met this gentleman at our local Autozone and mentioned to him that his car was a great candidate for an extreme makeover; explained the process and gave him my phone number, figured like most people he'll never call. A few months...

"Taking your car's paint to it's maximum potential" I coined this saying back in the early 1990's and here's the story behind the saying. As a detailer, I always run into people driving special interest cars, often unique or classic cars, that are not restored or in mint condition but...

How To Restore and Protect a Vinyl Top using 303 Products Thanks you to Roger Dyer at 303 Protectant Inc. for providing me with the detailed information on on the 303 products and directions for proper use. There's a lot of products on the market for cleaning, conditioning, maintaining and...

Increase Your Grip Strength with Microfiber Gloves Have you ever gone to wipe off a coating of wax or paint sealant using a plush microfiber towel only to experience that when you tried to make your wipe your hand moved but the microfiber towel stayed behind? I have and it's kind of...

The 10 @ 2 Technique for picking up a bead of product with a Flex 3401 The 10 @ 2 Technique for picking up a bead of product is a way you can grabbing your product on the fly with your Flex 3401 in a way that pulls the product under and into the face of the buffing pad instead of splattering...

Flexible Backing Plates for Rotary Buffers Flexible Backing Plates provide, An extra level of cushion when using a rotary buffer which helps you when buffing on curved panel and over body lines. The flexible foam interface heps to distribute pressure more evenly over the face of the...

Lubricating the Felt Ring on the Flex 3401 First there is no official recommendation from Flex on this procedure but most owners of the Flex 3401 like to lubricate the Felt Ring to ensure there are no issues between it and the hard plastic backing material that it comes into contact with...

Holiday & Vacation Here's a picture I took of a car at a stop light where you could easily tell where the owner missed a section when they washed their car. Back when I was in college one of my friends had a mobile car wash business and he used the terms, Holiday, and Vacation, to...

How to Test for Single Stage or Clear Coat Paint To test for a single stage paint, try to find a light colored or white polish if you're working on any kind of pigmented paint. If you're testing white paint then try to use a polish with a color to it and a dark colored cloth, (so you can...

The Soft Flannel Bed Sheet Tip I like to cover up the engine on special interest cars and especially show cars or restored cars where the engine and engine compartment are clean enough to eat off of. The reason for this is because it's all to easy for stray splatter from either wet-sanding or...

3-Categories: Waxes, Paint Sealants and Coatings In an effort to help standardize terms used in the detailing industry, now that CQuartz and Opti-Coat 2.0 are mainstream, there are three general categories in the "Protection" category Waxes Paint Sealants Coatings Waxes Generally...

Imprint Chips - Chips in the paint caused by a thrown egg When an egg is thrown at a car's painted panel, the force of the shell impacting and breaking up against the paint leaves a very specific type of chip pattern I call Imprint Chips. Imprint Chips Fixing Imprint Chips is very...

How-to clean your foam pad on-the-fly When using a dual action polisher to remove below surface defects with any type of abrasive product you’re going to have two things building up on the face of the foam pad that you need to clean off. Spent residue - From the product you’re using...

Why it's important to clean your pads often... ANYTIME you're abrading the surface whether you're using an aggressive cutting compound of an ultra fine polish, you have two things building up on the face of your buffing pad... Spent product Removed paint You need to remove both of these...

The 10 @ 10 technique for picking up a bead of product with a Rotary Buffer The 10 @ 10 Technique for picking up a bead of product is a way you can grabbing your product on the fly with your rotary buffer in a way that pulls the product under and into the face of the buffing pad instead of...