Re: Pictures & Comments from May 14th, 2011 Saturday Detailing 101
Continued...
After demonstrating proper techniques with each of the tools it's hands-on time!
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Ali testing out the Porter Cable 7424XP
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Kyle testing out the Griot's Garage DA Polisher
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Larry loves the Flex PE14 with a 7.5" Wool Cutting Pad and a Solo Flexible Backing Plate
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Frank in the two pictures below was actually very good with the rotary buffer, you could tell he's been using an RB for decade as he made it look so easy...
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That's a Flexi-Foam 5" Backing Plate with a 5.5" Hydro-Tech Crimson Pad... I highly recommend flexible backing plates, especially if you're new to the rotary buffer.
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We didn't get a lot of pictures showing people using all the different polishers because everyone's hands had polishers in them instead of cameras... but the hands on portion goes for around 3 hours easy... so there's plenty of time to for each person to put each polisher to work...
After we buffed out the Cadillac and worked it all the way up to the waxing step, we brought in Kendra's Honda for a demonstration on how to restore headlights using the Diamondite Headlight Restoration Kit for Machine Application.
The Flex PE14 is hands down the perfect polisher for machine cleaning and polishing headlights due to its lightweight, compact size and 400 to 2100 RPM Range.
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If you look at the Big Screen TV you can see a Crystal clear headlight lens after polishing...
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Showing Rick how to pick up a bead of plastic polish using the 10 @ 10 Technique on the face of the headlight... hands-on training dramatically flattens out the learning curve.
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After tweaking Rick's technique just a little he's making using a rotary buffer look easy...
(Look at the Big Screen TV)
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Yancy did a spectacular job of running all the cameras and computers during the both classes...
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Wrapping up the class with a time for questions and answers both from the students in the class and our online students...
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After completion of the class, each student gets the Autogeek Show Car Garage Certificate
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The following Monday, before returning the car to the owner I took a short video to show the after results...
First the before pictures of our scratched and swirled-out demo car... a 1996 Cadillac Sedan Deville
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Now the after video...
Show Car Results by the May 14th Detailing 101 Class
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Be sure to clear your schedule and make plans to be at our next set of classes...
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