The most important factor for removing any wax or paint sealant is to apply a
thin,
uniform coating, this usually takes a little practice and in my opinion is best done using a DA Polisher.
Once you have a thin coating of whatever it is you're applying, for example a pure polish or glaze, or a wax or paint sealant, the job is to remove it without struggling and without inducing toweling marks back into the paint.
The words
toweling marks are a nice way of saying light or shallow swirls and scratches from pushing too hard with your wiping cloth or in other words struggling with your wiping cloth against the paint as you're trying to remove something that's not coming off easily.
Let me share with you the technique I call
Breaking open a coat of wax and then creeping out...
Kind of a weird title but it's all I can come up with that describes what you do using this technique.
First let me share the problem, most people try to wipe off large or huge swaths of product with each wipe and for some products this works well because the product is very easy to wipe off no matter how you wipe. But for a lot of products, wipe off requires a little more work because of the product itself.
From TheFreeDictionary.com
Swath: the width of one sweep of a scythe or of the blade of a mowing machine
In the context of this article and topic it's the width of one sweep of your hand on a microfiber polishing towel.
When a product wipes off hard, trying to take huge chunks of it off in a single stroke doesn't work very well and usually what happens is you place your polishing towel on a panel, push on the towel and try to move it forward to remove the coating of product in that area; what usually happens is the towel stays in place and your hand moves forward emptyhand... so to speak...
The reason for this is because when you try to take off huge amounts of product, the surface tension between the layer of glaze, wax or paint sealant is greater by the shear volume of surface area as compared to what your hand and a wiping cloth can
convince to release and pull away.
If that makes sense...
Now if you try to take the same product off but instead just take
little bites of product off using a gentle, circular motion with your hand and polishing towel, then taking off any product is easy. This is because when you only try to remove a small amount of product at one time your wiping cloth has more
removing or lifting-off power than the product has
grip strength onto the paint.
Little Bites
With little bites any wax or paint sealant is easy to remove and you
reduce the potential for inflicting any toweling marks...
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