Mike Phillips
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You are correct, the blueish color is correct for M05 and the brown/green/khaki
I have a cylinder bottle of M05 from the 1960's and it somehow formed a ball in the bottle...
There's reasons the color changes... from year to year, it's natural.
Jeweling usually requires something with some level of cut as you're working out the very finest remaining defects to create a perfect finish. M07 is non-abrasive.
I like to remind people that it's not just the product that is a factor in any polishing process it's also the things I listed in this article.
Factors that affect how aggressive or non-aggressive a product is...
So theoretically you could use a non-abrasive product with an abrasive pad, i.e. a very low cut abrasive pad and the pad would be the component that helped to refine the finish by removing fine defects and I believe this will work with malleable or soft single stage paints from the old days but I don't think it would work very well with modern clear coats, you would be better off with a modern fine polish.
There's supposed to be a 1954 Corvette here today with a single stage red paint job, if it shows up and needs polishing we'll evaluate the condition of the finish and maybe it will be a good candidate for jeweling or final polishing... then a coat of 7 and then a coat of Souveran Paste...
From this thread,
Some Vintage Meguiar's Products from my Collection (Lots of pictures)
Pre-cursors to M07
This is just a guess on my part because the people that would know the answers are no longer with us... that said, it's my guess this was a pre-cursor to the M07 product if not the M07 product. Note the art deco design of the first bottle...
Here's a collection of 4 old Mirror Bright products from between the 1920' and 1940's
M07 Sealer Reseal Glaze --> Show Car Glaze
I posted these pictures recently to another related thread and thought I would share them here just to give people reading this a picture or anchor in their mind as to just how old the M07 formula is, it's been around since the Model-T. The glass bottle is post-WWII, a glass bottle with the Mirror Bright wording on the label would be pre-WWII
Sometimes I remind people that these products were around before plastic was invented, thus the glass bottles. The "cylinder" bottle you see below, just to the right of the glass bottle was the first plastic bottles to be introduced I think in the late 1950's, maybe early 1960's.
The third bottle from the left is a clear plastic bottle when they switched to the current style of bottles and is from the 1970's
The 4th bottle from the right shows when they changed the name from Sealer Reseal Glaze to Show Car Glaze primarily because as our lingo changed in the car appearance world, people were confusing "Sealer" with "Sealant" and M07 is water-soluble, hopefully everyone reading this can see why that kind of confusion could be a problem in the enthusiast or consumer market.
M05 New Car Glaze
M05 came out in the late 1950's after acrylic lacquer was introduced. The name has caused a lot of confusion over the decades because the name says "New Car" and people with brand new cars no matter what the era think this means it's a product for their car. Fact is, it came out as a product originally specific to single stage paints. It is like M07 except that it dries very fast and turns white when it dries whereas M07 doesn't really dry and remains clearish. M05 is also very powdery as you remove the residue. It is able to give you M07 results but easier to remove in a high-humidity climate due to the drying characteristic.
What would be a good alternative, something also to remove VERY slight swirls?
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