What is the most obscure detail job you ever had

Tasty said:
Wow. To that I can make only one reply...















PICS!! :chuckle:



As if detailing the pen in the first place isn't strange enough, I fear photographing the result would have been over the top even for me.



Still, it's coming due for another touch up, so maybe one of these days......before AND after pix!!





I need help. :nervous:
 
Does anybody here wax there appliances such as washers and dryer? I'm only in college, but when i do get a house I planned on doing just that. bad idea?
 
throttlethumb said:
Im wondering what is the weirdest thing anybody detailed. Im asking because this evening a customer who comes to me on a semi regular basis called tonight and asked if I could detail his diecast collection. I started thinking while he was talking that how many 1/24 scale cars can somebody have? It was on the tip of my tounge... $25.00. Then he told me that he had well over 300 NASCAR diecast cars. I damn near dropped the phone. He asked me a price and I hoonestly had to tell him to give me a few minutes and I will call him back. Now knowing a bit about NASCAR diecast and having a couple choice cars myself, I picked one up off of my office shelf and pulled out theMF,QD, NXT paste wax. It took me about 4 minutes art to finish on one car. Im going to quote him $600.00 and basing it on the time to do one car, Im quoting him low. He also has 12-24 car acrylic cases all in one room. Not a bad rainy day job if you ask me. I hope he goes for my quote. Oh just so you know how this happened, He had come to me a few years ago and had me detail his jeep cherokee. He had a couple of diecast car boxes in the back and we started talking about his collection. He had told me that he had hundreds of cars and I thought he was blowing smoke up my butt but I guess he wasnt.





Don't forget pics ! :bigups
 
I regularly BUFF my Nextel I860 phone. It has black finish and get scratched very quickly. I use a polishing pad on a rotary with ssr2.5, then move to my wax of choice. It has been s100, but lately I have been using EX w/carnuba. Very shiney. Cant get pics of my phone b/c my phone is my camera!
 
Brandon1 said:
I regularly BUFF my Nextel I860 phone. It has black finish and get scratched very quickly. I use a polishing pad on a rotary with ssr2.5, then move to my wax of choice. It has been s100, but lately I have been using EX w/carnuba. Very shiney. Cant get pics of my phone b/c my phone is my camera!



What's wrong with a mirror (or the hood of your car :D )?
 
Mailbox. No kidding. Our neighborhood HOA is a bit anal and insists that our mailboxes be well-maintained. Most people in the hood have been spraypainting their dull mailboxes and number plates (the plate on top with the house number in brass). The spraypainting looks little improved, other than covering the bird droppings with black paint.



I took the mailbox down one day, looked it over and decided that it looked very similar to a poorly maintained car's finish. Got out the paint cleaner, polish, and wax. The brass numbers took some time. The ribbed mailbox housing was a bit challenging, too.



But, a couple of hours later, it looked like new.



I'd love to get my PC going on my wife's baby grand piano. I just don't know what polish to use.
 
Be careful with high gloss pianos as most are polyester (some uerothane) and it's soft compared to car paint and can burn so go slow and be extra careful of getting product on the strings and action. I never trust myself with any liquid products near pianos, the potentioal for disaster is too great and I've been a piano technician for about 15+ years. When I polish pianos I use a rotary buffer with a 10" cotton wheel and a mild plastic polishing rouge but I've tried a finish foam pad with very mild abbrasives like Malco Light Finish and it seemed to work well, just kept the pace up much faster than on paint to reduce any chance of heat.
 
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