imported_TonyFromOz
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Gentlemen.
I contribute at another Forum, and occasionally I have visited here just to look around.
I read David's guideline on an introduction, and if I was to follow that, it would be a long Post indeed. I am, however not a hello, goodbye type of guy, so I will take up David's offer and use some space, so I hope you guys will forgive me for that.
I am an old guy, so I hope you all forgive me for that also.
I have a favourite singer songwriter dating from the late sixties, one of those numerous stellar artists from Canada, this one being Neil Young.
One of his early songs was titled 'Journey Through The Past', and I'd like to do just that, and I'll only be going back ten years.
My son used to buy older Ferrari's, do them up, and then sell them, gradually working towards his dream. To that end, he always detailed them immaculately. My good lady wife used to see the work he did, and muse to me about why I didn't do the same with the Camry.
I bit the bullet, and asked him for some of his stuff to do the job. He gave me the three stage Mothers products, and off I went. You know how we all read the labels carefully, (yeah! I know that)
So, a cursory glance told me to do the work in the shade, the open garage to be correct. It was midsummer here in Australia, with temperatures nudging a hundred, hence even with the car in the shade, the panels were still quite hot.
Old days here. Squirt product onto the panel, spread around with cut up sections of an old cotton T shirt. Let it haze and then use cheesecloth to remove the product.
Hence, the products, all three of them baked onto the cream paint. True, I did get it off in the long run, but each product took about 6 hours very hard work spread over two days.
The car looked absolutely beautiful, but I remembered the two days solid work and the aching muscles.
That old Camry lasted 17 years, and when I got this newer Holden Astra, my first second hand car, my first non Toyota, my first dark coloured car, and my first Automatic, I again looked around for a product to make the paint look good.
I remembered back to that three stage job on the Camry. (Never again.)
So, I bought a single stage product, and used that. It did a good job, a lot easier I thought. This time I looked on the label and ended up going to their Forum, the Mothers Forum, and there I learned what I had been doing differently.
This time, I then went the whole routine, Clay, and the Three stage process. Only with foam applicators, work with cool panels, in the shade, and removing the product with Microfibre Polishing Cloths. The ease with which the task was accomplished this time was something that led to a pleasing result.
So having said all this, there are no secret products and there are no secret techniques. You just open your eyes, read what you can before you start, and then do the work correctly. The only difference is the size of the smile and its duration.
This forum is absolutely huge and there are most definitely not enough hours in the day to read everything, but I like the big number of 'Off Topic' areas, and other than cruising around looking at what you guys have to say about detailing, I hope to just lurk and not comment very much at all.
Thank you, David for allowing me to write so much, and if you guys have read this far, thank you.
Tony.
Edit. David, might you help me with the area at left of screen where my user name is. The Coomera, Queensland, Australia address might be placed on three lines rather than the one to conserve space. Also, I have a small photograph in my profile that I have reduced to 19KB to use as an avatar, but try as I might, I cannot edit my Profile to reflect these changes. A PM with some clues might assist me with this matter. Thank you, Sir.
I contribute at another Forum, and occasionally I have visited here just to look around.
I read David's guideline on an introduction, and if I was to follow that, it would be a long Post indeed. I am, however not a hello, goodbye type of guy, so I will take up David's offer and use some space, so I hope you guys will forgive me for that.
I am an old guy, so I hope you all forgive me for that also.
I have a favourite singer songwriter dating from the late sixties, one of those numerous stellar artists from Canada, this one being Neil Young.
One of his early songs was titled 'Journey Through The Past', and I'd like to do just that, and I'll only be going back ten years.
My son used to buy older Ferrari's, do them up, and then sell them, gradually working towards his dream. To that end, he always detailed them immaculately. My good lady wife used to see the work he did, and muse to me about why I didn't do the same with the Camry.
I bit the bullet, and asked him for some of his stuff to do the job. He gave me the three stage Mothers products, and off I went. You know how we all read the labels carefully, (yeah! I know that)
So, a cursory glance told me to do the work in the shade, the open garage to be correct. It was midsummer here in Australia, with temperatures nudging a hundred, hence even with the car in the shade, the panels were still quite hot.
Old days here. Squirt product onto the panel, spread around with cut up sections of an old cotton T shirt. Let it haze and then use cheesecloth to remove the product.
Hence, the products, all three of them baked onto the cream paint. True, I did get it off in the long run, but each product took about 6 hours very hard work spread over two days.
The car looked absolutely beautiful, but I remembered the two days solid work and the aching muscles.
That old Camry lasted 17 years, and when I got this newer Holden Astra, my first second hand car, my first non Toyota, my first dark coloured car, and my first Automatic, I again looked around for a product to make the paint look good.
I remembered back to that three stage job on the Camry. (Never again.)
So, I bought a single stage product, and used that. It did a good job, a lot easier I thought. This time I looked on the label and ended up going to their Forum, the Mothers Forum, and there I learned what I had been doing differently.
This time, I then went the whole routine, Clay, and the Three stage process. Only with foam applicators, work with cool panels, in the shade, and removing the product with Microfibre Polishing Cloths. The ease with which the task was accomplished this time was something that led to a pleasing result.
So having said all this, there are no secret products and there are no secret techniques. You just open your eyes, read what you can before you start, and then do the work correctly. The only difference is the size of the smile and its duration.
This forum is absolutely huge and there are most definitely not enough hours in the day to read everything, but I like the big number of 'Off Topic' areas, and other than cruising around looking at what you guys have to say about detailing, I hope to just lurk and not comment very much at all.
Thank you, David for allowing me to write so much, and if you guys have read this far, thank you.
Tony.
Edit. David, might you help me with the area at left of screen where my user name is. The Coomera, Queensland, Australia address might be placed on three lines rather than the one to conserve space. Also, I have a small photograph in my profile that I have reduced to 19KB to use as an avatar, but try as I might, I cannot edit my Profile to reflect these changes. A PM with some clues might assist me with this matter. Thank you, Sir.
