Sign-Up for July 9th - Machine Polishing 101

[Mike Phillips]

First Class Training Facilities...




Richard let us use his car for our demo car, it had plenty of above surface bonded contaminants and swirls to remove.





Here's a great example of Cobweb Swirls




The Baggie Test to check for Above Surface Bonded Contaminant



The Baggie Test - How to inspect for above surface bonded contaminants




When there are above surface bonded contaminants present you can also "hear" them by rubbing your hand over the finish...



To enable people to feel the difference between before and after claying, I only clayed a thin long section down the middle of the hood and then everyone could run their hand over the clayed section and the un-clayed section and feel and hear the difference.





There were a number of people that had never used detailing clay before so in Detailing 101 everyone has a chance to learn how to properly use detailing clay.










Using the Brinkmann Swirl Finder Light to show how to inspect for swirls...






Thorough and detailed instruction...

Showing how to use the PC Wrench to hold the Free Rotating Spindle Assembly to attach a backing plate.



Attach your foam pad so that it's centered on the backing plate



To demonstrated how safe the DA style polishers are I turned the Porter Cable 7424XP on the 5.0 speed setting and pressed it against the back of my hand as hard as I could.... results... no pain... no problems...

[Mike Phillips]

Everyone gets a chance to test out all the popular electric polishers including the new Flex PE14 Rotary Buffer...

Here's a couple of ladies showing all the big strong guys how to use the rotary buffer...









Cyclo Mark 5 Polisher




Flex 3401 Forced Rotation Dual Action Polisher



Flex 3401, focus on what you're doing, pay no attention to the camera man...








Griot's Garage DA Polisher




Porter Cable DA Polisher



Griot's Garage 3" Mini Polisher



Here's Cory testing out the Griot's Garage 3" Mini Polisher



Meguiar's G110v2 and the Porter Cable 7424XP





Here's Astrid with the PC and Jeff running the Griot's Garage DA Polisher

[Mike Phillips]

Here's Paul aka Paulie12ATT running the Cyclo Polisher...



Here's Andris testing out the Griot's Garage 6" Random Orbital Polisher with a 6.5" CCS Polishing Pad



For most people, it actually helps to remove the stick handle off a Porter Cable DA Polisher as it allows them to apply pressure directly to the head of the polisher which results in keeping the pad flat to the surface for maximum pad rotation.



Jeff really got into it and I think I saw him testing out every polisher on all the different panels on our demo car...



Here's Bill aka theamcguy putting the Cyclo to the test...





Using the Griot's Garage Polisher with a 5.5" Cyan Foam Cutting pad with an Indigo Bonnet to remove Pinnacle Liquid Souveran

[Meghan]

Class is coming up in a couple weeks, sign up now while you still can. I am excited, I plan to be there for this set of classes!

[Robert8194]

I'm signed up for both. Who will be joining me??

I will be there both days. Looking forward to meeting everyone and learning from the best.

[Mike Phillips]

I will be there both days. Looking forward to meeting everyone and learning from the best.

Hi Robert,

It's going to be a lot of fun plus not only will you get to test out all of these tools listed on the first page,

• Flex PE14 Lightweight Rotary Buffer

• Flex 3401 Forced Rotation Dual Action Polisher

• Griot's Garage 6" Random Orbital Polisher

• Porter Cable 7424XP Dual Action Polisher

• Meguiar's G110v2 Dual Action Polisher

• Cyclo Mark 5 Variable Speed Orbital Polisher

• Griot's Garage 3" Mini Polisher

You'll also get a chance to test out the new DeWALT Bumblebee!







Then Saturday Night after the class we'll have the Meet & Greet at the Marriott. I'm also working on getting a really cool car here that's completely swirled out for our Saturday Demo Car.

[Meghan]

Looking forward to a great weekend of classes!!