lokerola
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- May 11, 2011
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Hi there everyone, I hope you had a great weekend! I finally started to get over this wretched sinus infection and I got out to wash my old beater truck today. 2 bucket wash, microfiber dry, and some Klasse AIO by hand. Just didn't feel up to dragging out the DA today.
Anyway, I've learned some lessons recently I thought I'd share with you. These are lessons that have been passed on before by Mike and others here, but they so simple, so easy to overlook, that -- well, I overlooked them in the last year and I think they contributed to adding swirls to my 2011 Dodge Charger.
I'll also add that my observations might be appropriate for the fellow hobbyist, not the pros out there as I'm sure the pros have this stuff down cold.
1. Have a clean container for dirty microfiber. I used to "gently" put my used and dirty microfibers down on a "clean" (or so I thought) surface, like an old chair I keep outside. I didn't have a dedicated container for my used Microfibers. My microfibers have been picking up a lot of SMALL debris that I'm sure have been contributing to some swirls in my paint. Do your self a favor and pick up a new, 10 dollar bucket at your Lowes, Home Depot, whatever, and use it for collecting dirty microfiber. I have also discovered that my basement environment may have been contributing to my "infected" mircofibers. God bless my wife, but she was drying, folding, and putting my microfibers on the FLOOR next to the washer where they were picking up tiny little bit of debris. I found that if I gather all my dirty microfibers after I wash & wax into a single dedicated container, and then put all the clean microfiber into the same clean container, I can avoid a lot of hassles with what I call "infected" microfiber.
2. This lesson came from lesson #1. Don't look at your microfiber - INSPECT your microfiber! At first glance, the big lump of microfibers out of the dryer looked clean and ready for use. But oh no my friends....it was not true! About 1/3 of the microfibers had very small bits of debris still left in the fiber. Small I tell you, but still there. I spent about 30 minutes going over both sides over every microfiber that came out of that dryer. Most were OK with only 1 or 2 small bits that had to be removed. But some of them were what I call "infected". Thay looked OK at an initial glance, but when you sit down, and really, really, look hard - there were tiny little bits of grass, etc I had to pick out. So now part of my wash cycle is to pick through all my microfiber very closely before it gets washed and check it all again after it comes out of the dryer.
Anyway - this is probably the most boring "lessons learned from a hobbyist" ever, but maybe some of you will look more closely and keep those microfibers clean. Because at the end of the day I have some minor swirls I still need to remove from the paint of my 1 year old car and I think the "infected" microfibers had something to do with it .
Good luck and happy detailing! :buffing:
Anyway, I've learned some lessons recently I thought I'd share with you. These are lessons that have been passed on before by Mike and others here, but they so simple, so easy to overlook, that -- well, I overlooked them in the last year and I think they contributed to adding swirls to my 2011 Dodge Charger.
I'll also add that my observations might be appropriate for the fellow hobbyist, not the pros out there as I'm sure the pros have this stuff down cold.
1. Have a clean container for dirty microfiber. I used to "gently" put my used and dirty microfibers down on a "clean" (or so I thought) surface, like an old chair I keep outside. I didn't have a dedicated container for my used Microfibers. My microfibers have been picking up a lot of SMALL debris that I'm sure have been contributing to some swirls in my paint. Do your self a favor and pick up a new, 10 dollar bucket at your Lowes, Home Depot, whatever, and use it for collecting dirty microfiber. I have also discovered that my basement environment may have been contributing to my "infected" mircofibers. God bless my wife, but she was drying, folding, and putting my microfibers on the FLOOR next to the washer where they were picking up tiny little bit of debris. I found that if I gather all my dirty microfibers after I wash & wax into a single dedicated container, and then put all the clean microfiber into the same clean container, I can avoid a lot of hassles with what I call "infected" microfiber.
2. This lesson came from lesson #1. Don't look at your microfiber - INSPECT your microfiber! At first glance, the big lump of microfibers out of the dryer looked clean and ready for use. But oh no my friends....it was not true! About 1/3 of the microfibers had very small bits of debris still left in the fiber. Small I tell you, but still there. I spent about 30 minutes going over both sides over every microfiber that came out of that dryer. Most were OK with only 1 or 2 small bits that had to be removed. But some of them were what I call "infected". Thay looked OK at an initial glance, but when you sit down, and really, really, look hard - there were tiny little bits of grass, etc I had to pick out. So now part of my wash cycle is to pick through all my microfiber very closely before it gets washed and check it all again after it comes out of the dryer.
Anyway - this is probably the most boring "lessons learned from a hobbyist" ever, but maybe some of you will look more closely and keep those microfibers clean. Because at the end of the day I have some minor swirls I still need to remove from the paint of my 1 year old car and I think the "infected" microfibers had something to do with it .
Good luck and happy detailing! :buffing:
