Motorhead Garage - Machine Polishing with Pinnacle - Episode 7

[Mike Phillips]

Motorhead Garage - Machine Polishing with Pinnacle - Episode 7


On Sunday, February 13th, at 11:30am Eastern Time, and on Monday, February 14th, at 4:30pm Eastern Time, a brand new how-to segment will air with with myself, Dave Bowman and Sam Memmolo on the Fox Sports Network.

Removing Swirls and Oxidation By Machine

Products Featured

Pinnacle Ultra Poly Clay Kit to clay paint
Pinnacle Advanced Swirl Remover to chop out dead, oxidized paint
Pinnacle Advanced Finishing Polish to maximize gloss, clarity and richness of color
Pinnacle Souveran Paste Wax - This is a "Finishing Wax" or a true "Show Car Wax"

You could also use the liquid version, I demonstrated the paste version to show how to apply a paste by machine.

Pinnacle Liquid Souveran Car Wax

I used Microfiber Gloves to hold the wax in my hand as I spread a little over the face of the foam pad.

Lake Country 5.5" Flat Orange Light Cutting Pad - To remove the oxidation
Lake Country 5.5" Flat White Polishing Pad - To Maximize Gloss, Clarity and Richness of Color
Lake Country 5.5" Blue Finishing Pad - To Machine-Apply the Pinnacle Finishing Wax for True Show Car Results
Microfiber Wax

Porter Cable 7424XP - For all machine work.


Speed Settings
6.0 for removing oxidation and swirls with firm downward pressure and move the polisher slowly over the paint.

5.0 for polishing the paint to a high gloss with firm downward pressure for the first 3-4 Section Passes and then lessen your pressure and you can move the polisher a tick faster at the end.

4.0 for applying the wax or paint sealant. At this point of the process you don't need high speed because all you're trying to do is spread out and work in a layer of wax or sealant.



Machine Applying a Wax or Paint Sealant
AFTER you have removed all the oxidation or any other paint defects and then after you have polished the paint to a high gloss you can apply your wax or a paint sealant by machine but instead of doing small sections at a time you can apply to pretty much as much paint as you can reach and cover with your polisher as long as you have enough wax or paint sealant to continue moving around a panel or the car. That is you don't apply finishing waxes or sealants to small sections.

The reason you remove swirls to small sections is because you need to focus the cleaning or abrading action of the polishes to "small" sections or you won't remove the oxidation and other defects.

Make sense?


We show this in all our Detailing 101 Classes



Our Detailing Project
In this segment we taped with Dave and Sam we used an extremely oxidized 1965 Ford Truck and demonstrated The Baggie Test and also how to use a PC 7424XP with Pinnacle products to remove the oxidation, swirls, scratches and water spots and restore a show car finish.


Before & After - 1965 Ford F150 Custom on Motorhead Garage





Before - Uniform Ugly



After - One shiny Test Spot!










From left to right...

Dave Bowman, Mike Phillips and Sam Memmolo



The Camera Crew for this show is also the Camera Crew for our show and these guys do a great job of capturing the action, editing the footage and getting it in the can and ready to air.

They'll be here in the next few weeks as we film our embedded Autogeek's Show Car Garage Features for the TV Show as well as a few more projects.

[dad07]

Sounds like a ton of fun Mike!!!! You have the best job!

[Mike Phillips]

Sounds like a ton of fun Mike!!!! You have the best job!

Yancy has a pretty cool job too... I'll try to get pictures of all the cool cars he gets to drive as we have quite a few lined up for the future and he's in charge of positioning them for each segment we shoot here at Autogeek's Show Car Garage Studio

[dad07]

Yancy fits that bucket well! A very cool ride for sure!

[Mike Phillips]

Here's a brand new article to help you find the actual number of the channel our TV show will be airing on but also for any TV show that you're looking for.

In our case, you'll be looking for Fox Sports Network

How To Find the Channel for our TV Show in Your Hometown

[Mike Phillips]

"BUMP"

Just a reminder the new how-to segment airs today at 11:30am Eastern Time today.

As I type this, that's about 30 minutes from now.

[Mister B]

Thanks for the reminder, Mike. I will be watching it in 12 minutes.

[Mike Phillips]

Embassy Suites doesn't get the channel so we drove to "Fox Sports Grill" and alas, they don't get it either.

It repeats on Monday at 4:30pm Eastern time and we get this channel at work.

Dang, was hoping to see it, Dave Bowman does "The Baggie Test".

[Mike Phillips]

The machine polishing segment on Motorhead Garage just aired a second time did anyone get a chance to see it?

I was out all day working on segments for the What's in the Garage? TV show and it was over when I got back to the office.

It should show up here in the next day or two where it can be watched online...


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[Mister B]

The machine polishing segment on Motorhead Garage just aired a second time did anyone get a chance to see it?

I watched it on Sunday. It's nice to see some information on the proper way to care for your paint finish coming into the automotive enthusiast TV show world.