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Mr Megane - As a retired engineer i'm thrilled with microscope data and thank you much for your input. Could one find these industry pub's? Setec - I agree with your logic of a chip is a chip, but my read from Mr M is there may be bunches of tiny chips that would not have chipped at all if...

Some time ago i saw a thread somewhere on Sealants making paint seem to chip more easily. Normally i would poo poo this, but i did just get back into sealants, did my wifes late model Acura, took what i thought was a very minor gravel hit in the nose and now have 50-100 tiny chips on the hood...

OK, since i'm the OP i'll summarize this if a can. My sample was fresh from AG. Can't remember if a said this, but i turned over the bottle that was in my 64 deg F garage and timed how long it took the contents to fall. About 25 minutes. This is a super thick product, period. I spoke...

First it was folks here that told med the product powdered up. My head is just fine and my mind is wide open. Yes i am an OCD retired design engineer that analyzes everything to a fault. So sue me. When i see folks describing a product and my sample seems to be working different, i ask. I...

Regarding the work in thing. I come from a whole different place than most of todays folks, especially those who do this for a living. Not saying better, just different, or old school show car thinking perhaps is a better term. IF you are doing a black or dark car and the object is a show...

Yes it was new product, well shaken, and from AG. AG told me i put it on too thick (duh) and if it doesn't dry in 45 minutes to strip it. Bad answer IMO. "Working" the product does not thin the application. You are NOT rubbing it IN. It's been reported that Menz polishes do not need to...

While it's not my full time job, i've been doing this for 40 years. One ALWAYS puts a product on as thin as is humanly possible. I put this on by hand on a foam MF pad. It went on about like a zymol wax. The product is like a thick hand lotion. Would it have gone on thinner with a DA...

Did my first Menz PL today at 3pm, i'ts 10 now and it's still hasn't dried. Most has finally hazed slightly, but i'ts still totally gummy, no powder. It's not ready to come off. Prep was perfect. I polished with Menz 4500. Car is in garage, temp was 62 degrees, humidity 54%. Easy on...

Old Tiger- So you spray it on, then you spread with the foam pad? and then go over the whole area with a MF pad? Wet or dry? I know everyone has said they went too heavy the first time, so i did try very thin, then thin, then medium. Spreading this thin caused it to flash too fast affording...

First while i'm not a pro, it am pretty experienced, retired OCD engineer, i think i read almost all of the posts on this product, and had all my ducks in a row. And i do understand it's a difficult to use product. But this product is so difficult i've got to wonder if anyone could do a...

I have been reading the recommendations for leather, but the seats on many vehicles have been half vinyl and half coated leather for a couple of decades now. Since most products are for one or the other and not both, what to use? And i assume most of the best leather products were formulated...

I've owned a black one for 20 years now. If it was black i would tell you to RUN away! The paint is soft so it polishes easy but is so soft once it;s flattened a bit that it is difficult to LSP without some scratching, although with that blue it shouldn't be too bad. You didn't say what equip...

Just finished my first job with one on a van using Menz 85RD orange LCC. Had almost no RIDS so the RD did the job easily with the 3401 on speed 5 of the six settings although i did feather the trigger some just messing around. My background is with a 7" IR air polisher but i wanted to try a...

Yes Mothers sucks, but 3m is another story. I haven't bought any 3m stuff from their latest lines, but 3m products except for hand glaze of course have much less fillers than any other line i know of, of course i'm just now trying the euro brands. 3m perfect it foam polishing pad glaze was...