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Re: 1969 Corvette Stingray - Cobra Clay Mitt Review
Amazing results for 5 and a half hours mike.
Great job, was it single stage or base coat clear coat ?
Did you have help or you did it all by your self, what percentage correction wise would you rate it.
And what machines did you use.
Amazing job 👍
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Wow that looks great!
I don't think I could make it look like that in that amount of time, Mike. Not with moving a DA polisher around 1" a second...even if I used my rotary for the compounding step. I might be able to do the two steps with my rotary and a final with a DA, but that's probably 1 more step than you did. I'm not concerned with getting that fast...but ding dang as you say...I would like to speed up things a little bit. Compounding with my DA takes generations it seems. I'm not afraid to use the rotary for that first compounding step and maybe I should.
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Re: 1969 Corvette Stingray - Cobra Clay Mitt Review
Mike, you did an outstanding job on the Corvette
You stated it was a race car and the owner tamed it down a bit, was it a Baja racer?
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Re: 1969 Corvette Stingray - Cobra Clay Mitt Review
Looks great Mike, doesn't even look like the same car.
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1969 Corvette Stingray - Cobra Clay Mitt Review
Looks good! Does your same principle about washing classics with a waterless wash apply to restored classic/muscle cars?
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Beautiful work Mike! That classic black Corvette looks incredible!
Question, where would this Mitt fall in terms of clay classification? Fine grade, medium grade, aggressive grade?
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Excellent work Mike! The car looks awesome, how would you compare the Cobra Clay Mitt to the Nanoskin Autoscrub?
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Re: 1969 Corvette Stingray - Cobra Clay Mitt Review
Originally Posted by NextLevelDtail
Amazing results for 5 and a half hours mike.
Great job, was it single stage or base coat clear coat ?
Basecoat/clearcoat.
This Corvette actually has a different paint on it from different stages of it's life but all of it is basecoat/clearcoat.
I met the owner at our local Tuesday night car show. He watched me demonstrate how to use detailing clay and asked me to look at his Corvette. He told me the paint felt rough and that he had tried clay but to no avail.
I felt the paint and then showed him the baggie test but the baggie test wasn't needed as the paint felt like #40 grit sandpaper. The problem was years of contamination and overspray paint from multiple paint jobs.
Somewhere I have an article that explains the MOST common place to get overspray paint on a car is at a body shop. They are always spraying paint and not always inside the paint booth so it's pretty easy to get air-borne overspray paint on your car while it's at a body shop. In fact real common.
Originally Posted by NextLevelDtail
Did you have help or you did it all by your self, what percentage correction wise would you rate it.
Knocked it out by myself. I'd say about 95 percent correction.
Originally Posted by NextLevelDtail
And what machines did you use.
Flex 3401
I used all the same techniques I teach in my 3-day Competition Ready Training Academy classes. Next class in in January.
Compound = BLACKFIRE SRC Compound with LC 6.5" Orange Hybrid Cutting Pad
Polish = BLACKFIRE SRC Finishing Polish with LC 6.5" White Hybrid Polishing Pad
Wax = BLACKFIRE All Paint Protection machine applied using LC 6.5" Red Hybrid Waxing Pad
Originally Posted by NextLevelDtail
Amazing job
Thank you. Appreciate the compliment and this was a fun project.
The night before I knocked out this old car, did it in 5.5 hours too... I don't take breaks when I detail except for a drink of water.
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Re: 1969 Corvette Stingray - Cobra Clay Mitt Review
That Vette turned out amazing! Would love to know what's going on under that hood! LOL
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