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First detailing e-book finished

I'm happy to announce that my first e-book is finished. Yesterday I uploaded all my files and pictures to a community server and now Yancy will take over and begin the process of digitizing it.

Digital Mock-up
Here's a mock-up of the rough draft on my iPad, this is a chapter on how to divide up the panels of a car into smaller sections for machine compounding and polishing.

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After Yancy finishes digitizing it and adding all the bells and whistles it will then be available via all the major digital publication outlets as well as a print version.

Dedicated to the DA Polisher
The topic of this first e-book is specifically how to use a DA Polisher to buff out a car. This would include these tools and any other similar tools,



  • Porter Cable 7424XP and all previous versions
  • Meguiar's G110v2 and all previous versions
  • Griot's Garage 6" Random Orbital Polisher
  • Shurhold Dual Action Polisher
  • Kestrel DAS-6
  • DAS-6 PRO
  • DeWALT DW443
It's very detailed and covers pretty much anything anyone new to machine polishing would want and/or need to know to get professional results the first time and every time.

There's lots of tips and techniques for experienced DA users too...


No time frame as of yet as to when it will be ready to go as Yancy is just now starting on his portion of the project plus behind the scenes we have a lot of cool projects in the works.


This project dramatically cut down on my forum time but at least for now I should be online to start playing catch-up.


:)
 
Mike.Phillips@Autogeek said:
First detailing e-book finished

I'm happy to announce that my first e-book is finished. Yesterday I uploaded all my files and pictures to a community server and now Yancy will take over and begin the process of digitizing it.

After Yancy finishes digitizing it and adding all the bells and whistles it will then be available via all the major digital publication outlets as well as a print version.

The topic of this first e-book is how to use a DA Polisher to buff out a car. This would include these tools and any other similar tools,

  • Porter Cable 7424XP and all previous versions
  • Meguiar's G110v2 and all previous versions
  • Griot's Garage 6" Random Orbital Polisher
  • Shurhold Dual Action Polisher
  • Kestrel DAS-6
  • DAS-6 PRO
  • DeWALT DW443

It's very detailed and covers pretty much anything anyone new to machine polishing would want and/or need to know to get professional results the first time and every time.

There's lots of tips and techniques for experienced DA users too...


No time frame as of yet as to when it will be ready to go as Yancy is just now starting on his portion of the project plus behind the scenes we have a lot of cool projects in the works.


This project dramatically cut down on my forum time but at least for now I should be online to start playing catch-up.


:)
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Good news from you never ends! :)

Bob
 
Nnnniiiiiccceeeeee!!! Good job Mike!!! Congrats! You're a gentleman and a scholar and we appreciate your work.
 
Great to hear you finished the book Mike . To bad you couldn't make the trip down south maybe next time .
 
Harleyguy said:
Great to hear you finished the book Mike . To bad you couldn't make the trip down south maybe next time .
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Sorry I couldn't make it. Truth be told I've been working on the book an average of around 12 hours a day 6-7 days a week. This last Sunday, Monday and Tuesday I was at work before 8:00am and turning the alarm on and locking the doors at midnight.

I'm actually looking forward to having this weekend off to work on my own projects.

Corey did swing by this last Sunday after leaving your place and we went and had a great lunch at the nearby Crackerbarrel


:xyxthumbs:
 
That's awesome, I'll wait patiently for its release and have my iPad ready..
 
Congratulations Mike!!! A lot of time invested and now you can sit back and say... It's done. That must feel good. :props:

I just wanted to say thanks for taking a break to have lunch and some good conversation. I had a great time. I know you were busy so that was cool.

Well, congrats again and now that you put in all those extra hours leaving early might be in order on Friday!
 
Mike that's awesome man congratulations! Ill have to buy it for my soon to be born son :)
 
CEE DOG said:
Congratulations Mike!!! A lot of time invested and now you can sit back and say... It's done. That must feel good.

I just wanted to say thanks for taking a break to have lunch and some good conversation. I had a great time. I know you were busy so that was cool.
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Thanks Corey, it was a lunch break and a great conversation. :xyxthumbs:


CEE DOG said:
Well, congrats again and now that you put in all those extra hours leaving early might be in order on Friday!
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Yeah I haven't told the boss yet but I'm leaving at 5:00pm today, that's early for me...

:D
 
Congrats Mike!!! I'll definitely be picking up a copy.
 
Mike, very much looking forward to picking up a copy of the book. Also major props on taking the e-book format, it is really cool that you are publishing to this new format. Will the book be sold through one of the existing e-channels such as Kindle?
 
LegacyGT said:
Mike, very much looking forward to picking up a copy of the book. Also major props on taking the e-book format, it is really cool that you are publishing to this new format. Will the book be sold through one of the existing e-channels such as Kindle?
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At this time Yancy says it will be available via all the major digital publication outlets as well as a print version

:)
 
Mike.Phillips@Autogeek said:
Congratulations!

Get them started early that way they can keep your cars clean!


:)
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Haha thanks Mike I will, was thinking first birthday gift would be a griots 3" polisher :) I figure with your excellent books and a little hands on from me who knows he might be the next Mike Phillips!!
 
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