Rinseless Washes - 2022

@Setec. That’s great information. I knew I remembered the sea sponge was quite the delicacy as far as wash media [for lack of a better word]

I remember they used to come in 1 of a kind shapes because no 2 were exactly alike due to literally coming from the sea.

Speaking of oddities, did you ever come across “Drywash”? If so did you ever use any on a car? Back around 2007 my brother was detailing jets and told me they used something called drywash to wash/wax the planes. He made it sound like sliced bread so I asked him to bring me a sample and I that’s what I used as my lsp when I did my very 1st 4 step detail on my old 92’ Eldorado.

I did the claybar, then the Maroon Meguiars bottles [Paint Cleansing Polish, Deep Crystal Polish] and I spent countless hours researching the then latest & greatest Meguiars NXT liquid “wax” until ultimately deciding to go with the drywash.. I figured if it was good enough to protect planes, then maybe it might just be my little best kept secret for my car. Looking back, I probably should’ve used the NXT. Lol.
 
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Setec Astronomy said:
I found an old CMA (properautocare.com) page in the internet wayback machine, this was from 2007. The pictures don't work, however.

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Klasse--Classic Motoring Accessories

Eldo--Was that Drywash a liquid or what?
I remember going through those multi-step Meg's details, but with the Mirror Glaze stuff with my Sears orbital buffer. I believe it was #2, #9, #26. I thought it should last for a year, after all that work. It didn't.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Klasse--Classic Motoring Accessories

Eldo--Was that Drywash a liquid or what?
I remember going through those multi-step Meg's details, but with the Mirror Glaze stuff with my Sears orbital buffer. I believe it was #2, #9, #26. I thought it should last for a year, after all that work. It didn't.
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Hell, I did all those steps by Hand! My freakin arm felt like it was gonna fall off by the time I had to go to work that following Monday. I spent an entire day on each step probably putting Mr. Miyagi to shame with circular motions inside my garage. Lol.

The drywash was a liquid.. However if you let it settle long enough in that clear plastic bottle [clear ketchup & mustard top bottle] it would eventually start to dry and flake up kinda like oatmeal would if oatmeal were a detailing product. Super thin flakes, but it would come back together with a good shake of the bottle ready to use again.

It took around a couple months of sitting before it would start drying up like that though.

Now that I think of it, it makes perfect sense the way it dried up because that’s how it was when it dried to a haze on the paint. It was nice and easy to buff off, almost like disappearing dust.
 
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I did it by hand, also, at some point I decided cleaning the bonnets for the buffer was more trouble than using the buffer was worth.

That Drywash sounds like Collinite 845.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
I did it by hand, also, at some point I decided cleaning the bonnets for the buffer was more trouble than using the buffer was worth.

That Drywash sounds like Collinite 845.
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It actually did look and somewhat kinda acted like Collinite 845, it was the exact same color that’s for sure.

Klasse Act sent me this bottle of Collinite. It’s been on my shelf for probably over a year since I used it and it’s caked 2 inches worth at the bottom of this bottle and I’m shaking it aggressively and it has yet to budge at all. Lol.

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That particular drywash had a brand name. My memory is good, but not That good, so I can’t recall the name, but I do believe seeing the metal container [might’ve been a plastic jug] it came out of when I visited the airport where my brother was working at the time. He was like “check it out, this is the stuff I told you about”
 
We used to have whole threads on different ways to reliquify 845. Leave it in the sun, put it in a container of warm water, shake the bejeesus out of it. Some people said you had to take the top off and push the plug of wax from the neck back down into the bottle (that was for a new bottle). It was good stuff though, I should use some again.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
We used to have whole threads on different ways to reliquify 845. Leave it in the sun, put it in a container of warm water, shake the bejeesus out of it. Some people said you had to take the top off and push the plug of wax from the neck back down into the bottle (that was for a new bottle). It was good stuff though, I should use some again.
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I’m surprised they didn’t invent a special bottle similar to how Guinness Stout is sold in a can where it has somekind of built in popper inside. Lol.
 
Eldo, is it time for you to go to bed? Or have you been up for the day since 3:30am your time or whenever it was when you started posting this morning?
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Eldo, is it time for you to go to bed? Or have you been up for the day since 3:30am your time or whenever it was when you started posting this morning?
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I’m actually about to go to the Supermarket because I’m starving and was thinking about being there at exactly 6am. when the doors open until I lost track of time and looked to see it’s now 6:36. Lol.

These are my favorite hours of the day.
 
I have plenty of eggs, but to afford them I've been selling off old bottles of 845 and cans of #16. Last dozen I bought was $7.89 for Jumbo
 
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You had to get the sand out of them.

EDIT: Since Crack brought up grout sponges, I had to go over to Autopia, and refresh my memory as to when that became a thing. The first mention is in 2004, but that person says they got the idea from showcargarage.com . Most of you probably don't know/remember this, but that's the site that Richard...OctaneGuy...started with Mike Phillips. Mike left Meguiar's briefly and the two worked together before Mike went back to Meguiar's (maybe when he writes his autobiography he'll tell us what happened there). After Mike left it changed to Show Car Garage, and then OctaneGuy came out with Black Wow and I don't know what happened to him now.

Anyway, back to grout sponges it seems it took until 2006 to really get rolling as an idea, and by 2007 it was just an accepted wash media, but turned out to be a fad that died out until the BRS. BTW, all the reasons stated for using a grout sponge back then are the same being touted for the wash sponges now.

The sea sponge talk started earlier, seems around 2002, but those never really got that popular because of the sand and seashell fragments. Apparently CMA used to sell them. I guess they (sea sponges) were around before forums, since CMA was a catalog company from before the internet (and Autogeek's partner on the Pinnacle line at that time). I'm trying to remember if I ever had one, maybe I will find one in the back of a drawer some day.
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Bought my PC from Octane Guy with some foam rubber bits to make it safer and easier to use when I first started. He and Prima car care were really big on the MINI forum.
 
Oh, yeah, that's how he and Mike Phillips met, I think, when the Mini club out there had an event at Meguiar's. I'm vaguely remembering the foam rubber, what was that a boot that went over the handle area to absorb vibration when you were pushing down on it?

I guess he's still running the "show car garage" detail shop as ShowCarPerfection and still selling Black Wow, Richard Lin is his name, I couldn't remember his last name before.
 
Setec Astronomy said:
Oh, yeah, that's how he and Mike Phillips met, I think, when the Mini club out there had an event at Meguiar's. I'm vaguely remembering the foam rubber, what was that a boot that went over the handle area to absorb vibration when you were pushing down on it?

I guess he's still running the "show car garage" detail shop as ShowCarPerfection and still selling Black Wow, Richard Lin is his name, I couldn't remember his last name before.
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That and a band around the base of the tool to make it easier to use it one handed. Found that the other day, it’s on top of my work bench right now.
 
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