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Lowejackson

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I have had problems trying to get my windscreen really clean, so yesterday I tried using clay (3M). The glass did not look any cleaner but I have had a problem with the wipers juddering across the windscreen. I have tried various brands with no luck, but when it rained today they worked perfectly.



There seemed to always be some ghosting on the glass when the blades swept across, this is reduced so maybe there was some kind of buildup.



Hope this helps someone else.



Steven

Alfa 164

Autoglym polish, gloss and Blitz



PS Anybody know the military way of cleaning shoes to get that mirror finish?
 
Spit Shine



Layer a medium to thick coat of polish, usually black, let dry, take a cloth wrap it around your index finger, dampen, not wet, the cloth and add a very small amount of polish, lightly rub it into the area with the dried polish, do this with small amounts of polish to layer it on the shoe. If you put to much the solvents or cleaners in the polish will dissolve all the previous layers and you gotta start over. After you get the shine you want, wipe with a soft cloth and there should be a high gloss mirror like finish.



You can see different colors reflect off my dress oxfords (like a mirror), even though its layers upon layers of black polish on there.



This method shines the shoes and makes them look nice but it degrades the leather and it rots from the inside out, happened to my old pair of shoes I had, I had to replace them.



Good luck with this and it might take a while to get the hang of, took me 5 years to get right, started at age 12.



Jason



Also, the clay windshield/windscreen is used already, I think VW recommends it?
 
If i'm not mistaken (and you don't have patent leather shoes), many of the military strip their shoes with shaving cream (no not Dawn :) ) some people actaully leave it on the shoe for extended periods at a time. Then they take those Copenhagen looking tins of shoe wax and layer it on with a rag and a finger. They actually light the wax right in the tin to melt it a little and then apply it. When I used to live in the dorms in school they had a lot of shoe polish parties the day before big military events.
 
Thanks for the advice, so is this a good time to try a MF on my shoes?



If I cant get my paint to be perfect, I WILL get my shoes to a mirror finish.



Steven

Oxfords and Brogues :)
 
I heard of the melt the wax routine but I prefer my paste polish/wax in paste form. I also think its kinda messy with softened wax and flames. Shaving Cream????????? I use acetone or rubbing alcohol to strip my shoes, only did it once though. for my Corcoran jump boots they say to wash with dawn and rinse, let air dry, then spit shine. Again i only washed these boots once.

I have a pair of leather oxfords and a pair of poromeric oxfords (Bates hi-gloss.) I wear the leather ones to drill team competitions and when its not raining. The poromeric ones I wear for rainy days and stuff.

Out of the entire Army Jr.ROTC Battalion in my school, I got the best shoes and brass woohoo (well not much competion and some people show off their spit-shined tips of their shoes, not the whole shoe!)

I wonder what kind of wax they use for their shoes. I use Kiwi black original (whole shoe) and Kiwi Neutral/Ultra Gloss Neutral on the sides (so the rub off won't get my pants black.) I also have some Kiwi brown shoe polish, black kiwi parade gloss shoe polish, some black leather dye, and edge dressing for the soles (not cars).

Anyway heres a picture of the poromeric ones I have (not mine but same thing, shine these shoes up with windex, atake out the scuffs with brasso metal polish)

Its the one in the front,
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Anyway, I'll stop my babbling and wish you good luck on making your shoes shine and your car shine.

Jason


EDIT: I have never tried MF to shine the shoes, only cotton, but hey its worth a shoot.
 
How did you know?? Well it won't focus on anything 2 feet away from it anyway....Just Kidding. Gosh darn viagra! are you taking these or any other pill/drink/solution that increases testosterone?? be honest Steve...



I never thought of that or will I ever do that. Women need respect and common courtesy and not some voyeristic teenage cadet with some hi-gloss mirror like shoes. Once that uniform goes on, its a professional, serious me, well I am serious almost all the time in and out of the uniform.



This post is so brutaly honest that it even scares me.





Keep on posting, I need a good luagh every now and then,



Jason
 
Do you all remember your first car? Mine was a 1978 Olds Cutlas Supreme.

It's like your first love, you never forget her.:smile:
 
77 Ford Explorer Custom F-150 4X4. My parents bought it for me new. It was black with red stripes and a short wheelbase. I put a rollbar, foglights, and new rims/tires on it. I would give a good price to find that truck back. I always kick myself for selling it when I got married. It was like a member of the family. A lotta firsts in that truck.
 
In 1968 I bought a 1964 Ford Galaxy 500, 2 door. Silver with black vinyl top, chrome wheels. I rebuilt the 390 engine; high lift short duration cam, bigger carb, headers, straight dual exhaust, 2.89:1 rear end. Sweet car!

I can't remember what I had for breakfast yesterday but I remember everything about that car!
 
This is always a good thread as new members check in and as us old farts get our memory straight.

As I recall the first for me was a '62 VW Beetle, 36 hp, no gas gauge and you had to lift the hood to fill it up, I seem to remember getting 10 gallons for $1.90.....

Then again it could have been a '64 Willy's CJ 5, at any rate my first was one of these :out:


I'm too young to have 'old timers disease'.
 
1950 Ford 4 door, stick six, flat black...that I painted with a brush. 6 transmissions,the most I paid was $9.00, three axle shafts. Beat the crap out of it but it would not die. The body just rusted off the frame and I had to put it to sleep.
 
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