View Full Version : Pictures & Comments from July 9th, 2011 Saturday Detailing 101
Meghan
07-09-2011, 09:48 AM
Pictures & Comments from July 9th, 2011 Saturday Detailing 101 (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/pictures-saturday-detailing-101/38222-pictures-comments-july-9th-2011-saturday-detailing-101-a.html)
Well all the guys are here and in the class learning about the great top of detailing!! Nick has been nice enough to bring me out some photos of the first hour of class. So here they are so you can see what Mike is up to in the garage!
You might even spot a forum member or two in there!
Here they are getting started!
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Mike explaining the car they will be working on today!
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A quick inspection of the paint surface.
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Always good to understand what you are dealing with before you tackle the job.
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Sometimes you just need to feel the paint, and this is some fresh paint!
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Some of the guys do their own inspection.
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Time to Clay the paint, amazing how many people are afraid to clay till they try it out.
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This paint needed some help.
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A little hands on training, as you can see Mike has protected the top from splatter.
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The baggie test.
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Explaining the Porter Cable and DA polishers.
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Flex and the differences in DA vs Rotary
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and then there is the Cyclo!
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Mike explains the difference in all the machines and the benefits of each.
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Applying Polish to the Pads
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Coating the pad with the polish
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A spare hood always serves as a great testing spot.
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Stay tuned for more photos from the class today!
Meghan
07-09-2011, 12:12 PM
After a little lunch break and it's back to business!
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Showing everyone the pad washer on the great new Grit Guard Cart.
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Cleaning pads on the fly!
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Mike getting ready to tape off an area on the hood.
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This is the area you don't want to run the polisher over!
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A little Pinnacle Polish to bring that paint back to life!
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Important to do a test spot before attacking the whole car!
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Meghan
07-09-2011, 12:29 PM
Mike talking about working with the polisher and proper way to move it across the paint.
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Showing some technique
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Keep that chord over the shoulder!
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Let's inspect the paint with our Brinkman, see how that test spots looks.
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Now let's give the Cyclo a try at it....
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Mike explaining the Dual Heads
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This is the newer model of the Cyclo
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One of our own here working the Flex, Bill from the forums!
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Bill getting a little instruction from Mike
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Time to move on to the next Flex Polisher
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That paint is starting to look like a lake, full of reflection!
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Explaining some of the features on the Flex.
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Everyone is ready now to give it a try on this sweet ride!
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Meghan
07-09-2011, 01:24 PM
Trying out the Meguairs Polisher on the back.
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Looks like Meguiars vs Flex here! Nick is read with towel in hand for any polish to fly!
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Applying some Pinnacle to the Flex...
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Safe first, chord over the shoulder
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and now its the battle of three polishers, I can see why Mike picked this car, there is a lot of paint to work with...
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Mike giving a little one on one with how to attack the side panels.
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Nice to see everyone helping each other out.
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Sergio removing some residue.... another forum member! (he drove a long way to hang out with us)
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I love this show makes me think of children on Christmas morning crowding around the Christmas tree. Everyone was very exciting to get a change to try out the polishers on this car.
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I believe they were practicing picking up a bead here...
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This is where a KreepStool will save your back!
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James K
07-09-2011, 01:48 PM
Great pics! I can't beleive the cars they got to work on this time!!! Amazing!!
Meghan
07-09-2011, 02:00 PM
Great pics! I can't beleive the cars they got to work on this time!!! Amazing!!
James this weekend we have amazing cars, but the guys attending the class are also great. Always fun when it's a great group to work with...
James K
07-09-2011, 02:02 PM
That is very true!!!! Good folks can easily take work and turn it in to nothing more then fun!
dchristo
07-09-2011, 02:22 PM
that look like alot of fun, I wish I was there
Meghan
07-09-2011, 02:50 PM
And now to clean some pads...
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Griots Polisher with the Grit Guard Pad Washer
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And this is what your pad looks like after a good cleaning!
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Meghan
07-09-2011, 02:54 PM
Now everyone knows how to dirty the pads AND clean them!
If you don't have a Grit Guard Pad Washer you need one! They are awesome.
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Night and Day difference already
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Sergio likes the 3 inch Griots, great for those tight areas you need to polish
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Meghan
07-09-2011, 03:02 PM
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Mike showing everyone how to properly "Jewl" the paint using Pinnacle Advanced Finishing Polish, Flex PE14-2-150 Rotary Polisher and a Lake Country Gold 6.5" CCS Pad.
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CrownKote
07-09-2011, 03:59 PM
I would love to come down there and learn from the best!
Brace1
07-09-2011, 06:07 PM
I would love to come down there and learn from the best!
You gotta do it next time :buffing:
Was an amazing experience, learned a TON from Mike. Having the hands-on with the tools and feedback from the "sensei" on technique were priceless. The turnaround of that '62 Cadillac (super-swirl model :laughing: ) gave me a lot of confidence to tackle my vehicles. I realized I wasn't working the product long enough to get the results I wanted on my previous lame attempts at "paint corrections". Watching videos until you're blue in the face or reading relentlessly doesn't come close to again getting that realtime feedback Mike gave.
Everyone at Autogeek are always such gracious hosts as well. Max gave us a tour of the warehouse and discussed their order fulfillment process, soup to nuts.
Mike Phillips
07-09-2011, 09:47 PM
Super fun class today and you guys did a great job! The Cadillac looks absolutely fabulous. :xyxthumbs:
I hope you all had just as much fun as I had and learned a few things you can put to use the next time your working on a detailing project.
For those of you attending tomorrow's class... before I left I did a test section on the GTO. Sanded a section with Unigrit #1500 Unigrit Sanding disc on PC speed setting 6 and then re-sanded using #3000 Unigrit Finishing disc and then removed sanding marks using Pinnacle Advanced Swirl Remover with a wool pad at around 1400 RPM using 7.5" Lake Country Wool Pad.
Paint sanded and buffed easy, came out looking real clear and glossy...
Taken with iphone camera, will get some better with Canon tomorrow.
Before
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After
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Scarelane
07-09-2011, 09:55 PM
Very cool! I really would like to come down to FL and attend a class some day!
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