Glass Cleaning on "My Classic Car" with Dennis Gage

[Mike Phillips]

Glass Cleaning on "My Classic Car" with Dennis Gage (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/ask-expert-featuring-mike-phillips/76215-glass-cleaning-my-classic-car-dennis-gage.html)


Check out the tips for cleaning and coating glass on this episode of "My Classic Car" with Dennis Gage. This is one of two segments we used this beautiful 1955 Ford F100 with a Candy Apple paint job.

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[Mike Phillips]

See all the pictures of this truck in this thread....


Candy Apple 1955 Ford F100 with Black Label Diamond Paint Coating (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/ask-expert-featuring-mike-phillips/72484-candy-apple-1955-ford-f100-black-label-diamond-paint-coating.html)


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[cmanningjr]

Cool product.. Nice truck too!!


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[Mike Phillips]

Cool product.. Nice truck too!!




Something I always point out to people is that cars or in this case a 1955 Ford F100 Streetrod, are the most common for having overspray on them, this includes overspray paint on the paint and on the glass like we found on this truck.

The reason?

Because the guys that own trucks like this and the kind of cars you see at car shows or on "Car Guy TV Shows" are always working on car projects and a lot of times that includes using some type of spray paint in or around their finished toys.

Thus they get contaminants like overspray paint on their way cool truck like this one.


No way of knowing 100% for sure if the contaminants we found on the glass was overspray paint, could have been something simple like Tree Sap Mist as most green things, trees, bushes, etc., emit sap on hot days that becomes airborne.

Point being, the only way to know if a surface is smooth is to first wash and dry the vehicle and then inspect it using the "Baggie Test" like we demonstrated in this segment.


The Baggie Test - How to inspect for above surface bonded contaminants (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/how-articles/27967-baggie-test-how-inspect-above-surface-bonded-contaminants.html)


After washing and drying your car, the next thing you want to do is to inspect the paint for what we call,

Above Surface Bonded Contaminants

These contaminants can be,


Tree Sap Mist
Industrial Fallout
Overspray Paint
Air-borne Dirt and Dust
Pollution
Road Grime
You can check for above surface bonded contaminants by feeling the horizontal surfaces with your clean, bare hand using your sense of touch to detect what will feel like little bumps or surface texture on the finish. This type of inspection works well and is a good general indicator of above surface bonded contaminants.

The Baggie Test
If you really want to feel what's going on at the surface level of your car's paint or your customer's car's paint, then use "The Baggie Test" when inspecting the paint for above surface bonded contaminants.

Better yet, if you want to share with your customer one of the problems with their car's paint that you're going to correct, let them also do "The Baggie Test" with you. The average car owner doesn't know what detailing clay is, how to use it or the benefits of using detailing clay to clay automotive paint, let alone how to test for above surface bonded contaminants.

Sharing this little tidbit of knowledge with your customer will demonstrate to them that you really know your business and later, after you've finished the job, letting them feel the now smooth and slippery paint will solidify their trust in your expertise. This can help you to retain their business and potentially led to referrals via word-of-mouth advertising.

To do "The Baggie Test", simply use a clean sandwich baggie by placing your hand inside the baggie and then feeling the horizontal surfaces like the hood, roof and trunk lid. The film of plastic acts to intensify the surface texture created by contaminants bonded to the paint making it more dramatic to your sense of touch when you feel the paint through the baggie.


The Baggie Test
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You can also inspect the vertical panels and if you detect above surface bonded contaminants on these areas then they should be clayed also. Generally speaking, air-borne contaminants will land and settle on the horizontal surfaces but drift past the vertical panels where they will land on the ground. The main exception to this rule is any air-borne contaminant that is sticky, like Tree Sap Mist or Overspray Paint.



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