#7 and cornstarch????????

Yeah, sounds like he's got the sickness!



Should we send this guy an invite to our little OCD community...he left his email address on his review. :lol
 
Yeah, if he can be open minded....wouldn't want him telling all of us we are crazy and need to put cornstarch and nuts and bolts into all our products (hopefully, no metal particles come off the nuts and bolts...)
 
Bill D said:
Sounds like a throw back to methods from 40 to 50 years ago.
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Well, not *quite* that long ago! We did stuff like that back in the '70s, though I always used the #7/cornstarch by hand instead of by rotary. The cornstarch gives the (nonabrasive) #7 some cut and it wasn't a bad approach on the single stage of the time.



NO way would I use that method on Spies-Hecker b/c paint though, and I can't help but wonder how his S4 would look under certain lighting conditions.
 
Well, besides the way I find most *every* Audi in the real (non-Autopian ;) ) world pretty horrifying, I bet the #7/cornstarch and #9 doesn't really do anything to make it *worse* than normal. Just a weird way to do something very mild and load on the fillers. Hope he knows what he's doing with the rotary though (thinking "holograms").



Big lesson is that times change and our methods/products oughta change with them. This observation coming from a guy who still uses the same #5/#16 combo he's used since forever :o
 
If I'am not mistaken tinsmiths use cornstarch to polish metal panels to a mirror finish so thats where this comes from.
 
EdLancer- I wonder if they still use such things these days :nixweiss Sorta reminds me of the old "lemon juice and salt" approach to chrome plating and using Coca Cola on stuff. Some very competent people (at least for their time) have done some very strange sounding things!
 
Hmm..I wonder if some use products like English Custom Polish--apparently they're used in museums.
 
Many many years ago when Simonize Paste Wax was the best you could get , corn starch was used to help remove it . Simonize was hard to use and corn starch made it much easier. Also before machine glazes and swirl removers corn starch was used with a rotary buffer and wool pad to remove swirls after componding on new lacquer paint. The history of car care products is very interesting. Some of you guys would be amazed at what Grandpa used to keep there cars sharp, and most of the stuff worked great for its day.
 
lawrencea said:
Many many years ago when Simonize Paste Wax was the best you could get , corn starch was used to help remove it . Simonize was hard to use and corn starch made it much easier... Some of you guys would be amazed at what Grandpa used to keep there cars sharp, and most of the stuff worked great for its day.
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Yeah, my mother always remembered how tough Simonize was; when #16 came out in the early 50s she and her sister thought it was a miracle product in comparison. She never tried the cornstarch with Simonize though (I remember her interest when I first borrowed some for a detail in the mid-70s). Might've saved her some work, but I guess people weren't discussing detailing "tricks" with women back then. She always felt that the guys who sold them the "Mirror Glaze" products thought it was weird for women to be buying such stuff (same way they felt about the cars those two ladies bought ;) ).
 
Ah yes, the good old days of car care.........I had the best looking wheels in school and never did tell my friends how I kept them looking that good, and mom always wondered where her mop & glow went! :waxing:
 
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