This Morning's Project
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Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 464
From: Mississippi
[quote name='89 Rag' date='Apr 28 2005, 03:36 AM']Overspray is a big one too, being a painting contractor I can tell you guys dozens of horror stories, one in particular was when a contractor underbid me to paint the cranes at the docks on the Washington side of the Columbia river. The specs called for an alkyd enamel as the finish coat, someone didn't do their homework and assumed the east wind coming out of the Gorge would push the overspray downriver and deceided to spray the finish on 100' tall cranes. The weather service predicted wind out of the north the entire week, so as the finish coat was applied the overspray drifted south across the river to the Oregon side (alkyd enamel overspray can drift or miles and not dry) For those whom don't know, the Oregon side is the location of terminals 4, 5, and 6 which are all used by Honda, Toyota, Kia and Mazda to name a few. To make it short the contractor's insurance adjuster's final tally was in excess of 1500 brand new cars that were contaminated with overspray.
The moral to this story is, clay bar your car if you feel roughness, the idea isn't to always use an abrasive, claying will scratch the car and that clear won't last if ppl obsess about claying and cutting and even using polishes with abrasives everytime they wash/detail their car. 8 weeks is all I would go with just wash and vac's to maintain the appearance and protection, afterwhich I would only polish with a non-abrasive, unless it absolutly needed to be clayed and cut.
If stuff embeds in the wax you are putting it on too thick, the mil thickness of wax is un-micable, and hopefully when you say harsh soap you aren't referring to boraxo.
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how to tell if you need to clay:
get the surface wet and soapy, put your hand in a cheap thin sandwich bag and run your finger over the surface. if you can feel any little rough spots, its time to clay. You can't always see the stuff you clay out, till you've already got it out and you look back and think "Damn, that was dirty"...
the plastic bag test really does work...
The moral to this story is, clay bar your car if you feel roughness, the idea isn't to always use an abrasive, claying will scratch the car and that clear won't last if ppl obsess about claying and cutting and even using polishes with abrasives everytime they wash/detail their car. 8 weeks is all I would go with just wash and vac's to maintain the appearance and protection, afterwhich I would only polish with a non-abrasive, unless it absolutly needed to be clayed and cut.
If stuff embeds in the wax you are putting it on too thick, the mil thickness of wax is un-micable, and hopefully when you say harsh soap you aren't referring to boraxo.
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how to tell if you need to clay:
get the surface wet and soapy, put your hand in a cheap thin sandwich bag and run your finger over the surface. if you can feel any little rough spots, its time to clay. You can't always see the stuff you clay out, till you've already got it out and you look back and think "Damn, that was dirty"...
the plastic bag test really does work...
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Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 464
From: Mississippi
[quote name='Rob x-7' date='Apr 29 2005, 02:52 AM']why not just use your hand?
why the bag?
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not sure of the actual reason, but it makes you finger tip much more sensitive the fine debris and stuff... try it, it really does... do it once with your finger and once with the bag..
not a ziploc though, too thick.. just one of those cheap old school fold over thin sandwich bags...
why the bag?
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not sure of the actual reason, but it makes you finger tip much more sensitive the fine debris and stuff... try it, it really does... do it once with your finger and once with the bag..
not a ziploc though, too thick.. just one of those cheap old school fold over thin sandwich bags...
