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Re: Getting Into the Little Areas
Another 'tool' for the in between areas is a Popsicle (or craft) stick. It is rigid, but the wood is soft enough to 'dent' too. Wrap it around a MF towel, apply some of the product to the MF, and clean away.
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Not sold here but check Amazon for different sizes of Q-tip type items. There is a wide variety of swab shapes and sizes for detailing. I bought several of the different sizes and one of them is a pointed swab that is perfect for getting around emblems and trim. They came in handy on a vehicle that had been waxed with the old type of wax that would harden and turn white. Nothing would remove this white crap except these pointed swabs.
Yes I am a little OCD.
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Re: Getting Into the Little Areas
Nothing wrong with wanting your emblems white residue free. Being OCD might be constantly polishing them.
Treat it like it's the only one in the world.
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Re: Getting Into the Little Areas
Originally Posted by
Mike Phillips
Sometimes just typing on-the-fly while multi-tasking... I saw your post while typing out e-mails and did my best to chime in.
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What I normally do is machine buff every vehicle I work on. I only work by hand if I have to. What this means is via the machine buffing process I end up with whatever I'm using, (compound/polish/AIO), in these areas, that is enough splatter or reside gets into these area that there's enough to "work".
Then I take a thin, microfiber towel, scrunch it into the tight area and rub the splatter residue out.
Whatever I get - I get.
Whatever I don't get - I usually move on.
I don't major on the minors. I major on the majors. By this I mean, if I were to buff out your FJ, when you stand back about 5-10 feet and look at it in full sun, the panels are going to look GREAT.
I call this Big Picture Detailing.
I would go nuts trying to do what I call Perfectionist Detailing. I'll leave that for the AR guys and there are plenty of them.
Hope I don't disappoint you but I'm a realist and pragmatist, not the OCD type that others are afflicted with.
Lmao, Yes I'm one of these guys. All the tiny little chips and pits on the paint drive me mad. Just can't do anything about it until I can afford a car with a better paint job. Even then I'm sure it will look sandblasted "under a microscope" just for the simple fact that driving basically is sandblasting the paint.
Lord knows I do strive for perfection though, no matter how painful it is.
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Re: Getting Into the Little Areas
Originally Posted by
rlmccarty2000
Not sold here but check Amazon for different sizes of Q-tip type items. There is a wide variety of swab shapes and sizes for detailing. I bought several of the different sizes and one of them is a pointed swab that is perfect for getting around emblems and trim. They came in handy on a vehicle that had been waxed with the old type of wax that would harden and turn white. Nothing would remove this white crap except these pointed swabs.
Yes I am a little OCD.
If you have a Meijers near you, you might check around the car care aisle. I came across a bag of about 100 Q-tips (about 5 different sizes). I think it was about $7.
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Re: Getting Into the Little Areas
Originally Posted by
Mike Phillips
Sometimes just typing on-the-fly while multi-tasking... I saw your post while typing out e-mails and did my best to chime in.
Here's the full size image
What I normally do is machine buff every vehicle I work on. I only work by hand if I have to. What this means is via the machine buffing process I end up with whatever I'm using, (compound/polish/AIO), in these areas, that is enough splatter or reside gets into these area that there's enough to "work".
Then I take a thin, microfiber towel, scrunch it into the tight area and rub the splatter residue out.
Whatever I get - I get.
Whatever I don't get - I usually move on.
I don't major on the minors. I major on the majors. By this I mean, if I were to buff out your FJ, when you stand back about 5-10 feet and look at it in full sun, the panels are going to look GREAT.
I call this Big Picture Detailing.
I would go nuts trying to do what I call Perfectionist Detailing. I'll leave that for the AR guys and there are plenty of them.
Hope I don't disappoint you but I'm a realist and pragmatist, not the OCD type that others are afflicted with.
Mike,
What about the big dollar cars you do? Or maybe one your doing for a Concour's. I figured not the everyday driver, but these I would think it would get done.
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