Recent content by texasdan

I used to detail my football helmet in high school. Now I polish and wax my hard hat at work... I once broke my leg and spray painted my cast a different color every few days. I thought high gloss black was the best, then chrome bumper paint after that...fluorescent green and orange...

Barriers of time There's a lot of truth in the barriers of time thing. Halogen lights are great. I just finished my water line by light tonight. I cannot remember doing any detailing in the daytime in years. The neighbors don't seem to mind as long as I'm quiet. It does seem easier to do...

testing & swirls It doesn't bother me that much, mainly because the samples are made just for the test. It is a relief to not worry about damaging paint for a day. As far as swirls, I don't do any specific testing just for swirls so my knowledge is the same as everyone else's on here. I do...

Swirls Flying debris does not cause swirls. Debris will cause chips, dents, and single line scratches, but in my experience it does not cause swirls. I do gravel chip testing on brand new paint (never touched by anything but air) and after the test, there are lots of chips but no swirls...

Building Well, It is a turnkey by the contractor. I picked the wrong color and the contractor didn't want to quote the stain removal (not his area of expertise) and the quotes I got for removal were too much, so I did it myself. This is only one of the problems. My house has been about 80%...

selling So this is like flipping houses. Buy a dirty car, clean it up and sell for profit. Sounds like a plan to me.

Well, I've been building this house, so I'm not on autogeek that much lately. I selected a terrible color of stain and stained about 500 sq. ft of my house before stopping. I had to strip this stain and restore the surface so that I can reapply the stain. This was about like hand polishing 20...

Liquid Glass My Dad has used it since 1991 and loves the stuff. I think its OK, but Wolfgang is my favorite.

What is your goal? Stop a leak? Run cooler? Lubricate Water Pump?

e-mail Be careful with e-mail. If you get an e-mail that claims to be from some website, never click on the links and enter information. Crooks make copies of pages and trick you into entering information into them.

Stainless The stuff I'm talking about is for stuff deeper than just "swirls" in stainless. If its just swirls, this is probably overkill.

Curse Well, There's more to the story than just this. I'm building a house right now and its been over a year on a 6 month job. My house and another are the last two jobs before the builder retires (going broke is more like it). I find all this out after $12K can't be accounted for...

More Problems No damage is done yet. Luckily the postal service intervened. We have used identity guard for a while for all our accounts, so we are informed of any activity (or requested activity) that takes place. We think its worth the money and will monitor very closely for a while...

washing See, I told you guys it sounded crazy. I only use my hand on the places where dirt or grains are located, so its just behind each wheel, on top of the rear bumper, and any spots that I can see when its wet. I know a mitt will take it off without swirls, but I just can't make myself...

id Yes its scary. The Postal Inspector told us that the crooks could pay about $40 on a website and get all the info they need to get a credit card in your name, apply cor cerdit, apply for jobs, etc.