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One more to help out future FLEX owners.... Mike Phillips recommended foam pads for the FLEX Family of BEAST 8mm Gear-Driven Orbital Polishers :buffing:

Also.... For what it's worth... at the time I detailed this car, I had not made the switch in my thinking or with the tool to use the larger optional backing plate on the FLEX CBEAST. The CBEAST and the Supa BEAST ship with a 5" backing plate. There is an optional 6" backing plate. After...

Here's an article I wrote about the FLEX BEAST Family. FLEX Power Tools Nicknames - All cool tools should have a nickname - not a part number -Mike Phillips Here's what I wrote in post #3 - on 05-21-2020, 09:42 AM and I still think the same way. Here's my take on the above 3 gear-driven...

:bump: Here's the other article I squeezed out of this one... Doing Edge Work with RUPES Nano in Rotary Mode - Mike Phillips Style :buffing:

Here's another example of where and how I use the RUPES Nano Long Neck Doing Edge Work with RUPES Nano in Rotary Mode - Mike Phillips Style Just another old 2-door European job.... :)

See this article, How to safely wash a ceramic coated car by Mike Phillips - Traditional Hose & Bucket Approach Dunk your towels I've already mixed up my car wash solution so I'm going to place all 12 of my clean and inspected microfiber towels into the bucket. I dunk them into the wash...

Completely understand. There was a time ALL of us worked by hand. :D Jeeps are tough to buff. Most of the time if someone asks me if I will detail their Jeep, (machine paint correction), I'll turn it down. Simply a whole of work due to all the various body panels. For this same reason...

Hey Locarno, I see you started 2 threads for the same topic. One in the "Ask Mike Phillips" forum group One in the Detailing 101 forum group. I've merged them into a single thread. There's no need to create multiple threads for the same topic. :dunno:

Here's my expereince... Whether or not the boar's hair car washing brush will scratch your car's paint depends on how soft or hard your car's paint is? I've used them on an old SL 500 we owned with the PPG Ceramiclear paint system and I never seen it scratch the paint. When I used one...

In case anyone didn't get it - that was my attempt at comedy. :D There is an adapter for rotary buffers, which should also work on a 5/8" spindle on a grinder. It's called a DYNABRADE Rotary/Random Orbital Head. Here's my first experience with the Dynabrade Orbital attachment back in 2006...

Apologies.... :D But from what I can see, you've purchased a lot of products that I have written and made videos about, but also have used personally to detail customer's cars. I only use product on other people's cars that I trust and would use on my own car. The FLEX Supa BEAST is a...

The preventative maintenance approach is really the best approach, especially if you buy a car that has a lot of exposed exterior plastic trim as a part of the body design. (Jeep brand) Chris West explains in the video that if you don't ward off oxidation, when the process does start...

Been typing this and saying this for years... How long ANYTHING lasts depends on how it's "touched". Wash your car with a brick? Nothing is going to last very long. Wash your car with a clean, soft wash mitt or multiple microfiber towels and a quality car wash soap? Then whatever you put...

For light compounding and anytime I'm using a one-step cleaner/wax like the BLACKFIRE One Step I'm mostly using the 180mm or 7" YELLOW RUPES CP Foam Pads. For medium to heavy cutting I'm using the Lake Country 6.5" Force Hybrid ORANGE foam cutting pads. And for REALLY heavy cutting I'm using...

Re: Thin single stage paint questions More... Here's the link to my original article on how to restore antique and single stage paints without abrasives plus a few other articles on the topic. All Mike Phillips #7 Show Car Glaze Articles in one place Here's my articles on #7 I recommend...

Welcome to AutogeekOnline! :welcome: After washing and drying the car, do the Baggie Test The Baggie Test as seen on Competition Ready TV with AJ and Mike Phillips Just go straight to polishing. Yes. Watch this video - it will show you EVERYTHING you want and need to know and do...

Cool rig! And because this is your first post to the AGO forum, Welcome to AutogeekOnline! :welcome: Meguiar's #7 Show Car Glaze is silicone-free, body shop safe. It's basically a water soluble oil. Sure - if you rub it on and off. Kind of like spit shining. If it were me? I...

I feel your pain -Bill Clinton I feel your paint -Mike Phillips :D Seriously... I feel your pain. I think your process "could" work, you won't know until you try. If you go the route you outlined above, the wetsanding and compounding is where most of these projects go south. You'll tend...

Good questions. "Yes" I have used it on colored cars but ALL were SINGLE STAGE. It's important that everyone understands this. Here's my article on this topic. The COMET Technique by Mike Phillips - 1965 Cadillac - Original Single Stage Paint - Slam job by Mike Phillips Yancy and I show...

Thank you for the compliment. My mom and dad instilled a good/strong work ethic in me from an early age, that is picking strawberrys and beans to pay for my own school clothes starting at the age of 5 or 6 if memory serves me correctly. I didn't miss a year, (picking berries and beans), until...