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Originally Posted by GMC83  Mike,
How did the swirls come out so easily with something as light as Deep Crystal Paint Cleaner? Is single stage paint that easy to work on? |
Most old lacquers are very soft and easy to work defects out of.
Note my pads are
100% cotton terry cloth, the nap, or little cotton loops act as form of gentle abrasive and give your choice of product more bite. This is all old school stuff, I wasn't around in the old days, I've just had the good fortune to have met a lot of old-timers and learned from them and also the good fortune to work on a lot of antique and original paints. In fact, I would say that not only is that my specialty, it's also my favorite thing to do in the paint polishing world, (restore original and antique paints).
I wrote an article back in 2002 or 2003 on Autopia that goes into paint hardness and specifically touches on single stage white paints. I see people posting stuff from this article all the time now days when the subject of paint hardness and white paint comes up. At the time I thought everyone would think the article was boring... well it is kind of...
Here you go, check it out, what I've typed here is actually the original title, DB changed it when he edited it and posted it.
The Lesson White Paint Teaches Us
I actually found a bunch of pictures of both the white Honda Prelude with the from bra on it and also the 1959 Flattop Cadillac used in that article.
That article is actually a single story in a book I wrote and sold for a very brief time in Oregon called,
The Art of Polishing Paint
(This domain is parked for now)
I went to re-write it after the first successful sales and then never got it put back together. I actually have the original somewhere in a box. After meeting Barry Meguiar at the Cars & Cigars Party mentioned
here, he asked me to send him 3-4 chapters from it, which I did and after that he hired me as his Corporate Writer and after a year of doing that job I kind of forged my own new position at Meguiar's running their forum and teaching their Saturday classes for which I'll always be thankful considering I'm just a blue collar dog detailer from a hick town in Oregon. Meguiar's has always been first class in my book.
A lot of people don't know where MOL came from but it came from
ShowCarGarage.com which I brought up because I wanted a place to post my write-ups from cars I detailed and at the time Autopia was the only game in town and one thing led to another and SCG went up. Then one day the VP at Meguiar's asked me why I was always posting my detailing work on SCG and I explained to him that it was because Meguiar's didn't have a forum.
You have to remember that forums like this one powered by vBulletin were still a
new thing in 2002.
Anyway, after posting a very detailed write-up for an all original 1954 Oldsmobile Rocket 88 and putting a colored print-out of it in his in-box he walked over to me and handed me my write-up with his notes on it and that's when he asked me,
"Why are you always putting this on your website?"
I said,
"Because Meguiar's doesn't have a discussion forum. This is what I've been trying to explain to you"
He looked at me and said,
"Make it happen"
As they say, the rest is history and in about 3 weeks MOL went live, that was the last part of January, 2004, here's the first post.
Mini Coopers at Meguiar's NXT Generation Garage!
Meguiar's always taught classes, I just joined the real-world together with the cyber-world by coordinating the classes via discussion forum. By the way, I still have the pictures of the 1954 Oldsmobile Rocket 88.
And here's the good news! We're getting ready start detailing classes here, in fact I turned in my outline for the class subject matter today. Sometime after Labor Day weekend you'll see the first sign-up thread go up as well as new set of forums, a set for signing up for classes, (The sign-up forums), and a set for "Pictures from the classes", that's where we'll post the pictures and videos we take and forum members can add their pictures.
It's going to be a blast!
Man time flies when you're having fun...
Hope that wasn't boring... About the only other person that knows that story is 2hotford aka Tim Lingor as he was my Super Moderator on both TheArtofPolishingPaint.com and then ShowCarGarge.com
We have an exiting future ahead of us. Autogeek is great, everyone that works here is so tuned-in to their job and Max sees the future, he's truly the power and creative genius behind the scenes and he does everything he can to help everyone on his team to be the best they can be. It's fun working here, and it's a lot of hard work, but it's more fun than hard work.
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