cleaner and veggie oil

[guess23959]

i think whoever came up with this has gone berserk. personally i wouldnt want my car frying in the sun let alone attracting flies. what are everybody's thoughts on this:

Repurposing Ideas: 5 New Uses For Vegetable Oil

 

[BobbyG]

Shoot, toss in some lettuce, tomato's, and cucumbers and some vinegar and you got yourself a salad!! rops:

 

[guess23959]

i guess thats where the term comes in, "this hood is so clean you can eat off it.":hungry:

 

[ObsessiveAutoDetail]

I am in NO WAY advocating using vegetable oil to clean your rims. However, bio-sourced oils are starting to pick up the pace in daily uses. As a gunsmith, I use a couple of products that are vegetable-based lubricants and cleaners. I mean this stuff will remove baked on carbon from an AR15 BCG. I sometimes use this cleaner to remove tar and road paint from auto finishes. I can't say I tried it on any rims, but I'd say it would work just fine - and without ANY petro-based solvents or hazardous chemicals. Why aren't these products more available... COST. For one product I pay $15 for 8oz.

 

[Rolling_Pwns]

You really have to watch out for stuff like this. With the advent of the internet, anyone can become a "writer", whether they actually know something or not.

Books, for example, used to have a certain quality in the grammar, spelling, fact-checking, etc., that is lacking severely these days with so many people "self-publishing". Some people may call me a grammar nazi, but I don't really care. It's about the declining quality of our language.

You can read letters and stuff written by fairly uneducated people 100 or 150 years ago that have perfect spelling and a vocabulary 10 times greater than people have today. It's a shame really.

Wow. I got off a tangent there, didn't I?

 

[Rencor]

I am in NO WAY advocating using vegetable oil to clean your rims. However, bio-sourced oils are starting to pick up the pace in daily uses. As a gunsmith, I use a couple of products that are vegetable-based lubricants and cleaners. I mean this stuff will remove baked on carbon from an AR15 BCG. I sometimes use this cleaner to remove tar and road paint from auto finishes. I can't say I tried it on any rims, but I'd say it would work just fine - and without ANY petro-based solvents or hazardous chemicals. Why aren't these products more available... COST. For one product I pay $15 for 8oz.

+1

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

You really have to watch out for stuff like this. With the advent of the Internet, anyone can become a "writer", whether they actually know something or not.

Keyboard Commandos - Professional Copy and Pasters
These people take what someone else has written and regurgitate it to look like their own creation.

I try to give others credit for their creations, especially tips, techniques and ideas. What I've found over the years is my own writing lifted and presented as someone else's ideas, tips and techniques. I don't like it but I'm also not going to join them in the practice but instead take the high road.

Here's an example, I've probably introduced more people to the Brinkmann Swirl Finder Light than anyone else on earth just by my articles, classes and now TV yet I always give due credit where credit is due...

Brinkman Maxfire Dual Xenon Rechargeable Spotlight - Review and How-To

From the above page,

The Brinkmann Xenon Swirl Finder Light is one of the handiest tools ever invented when it comes to removing swirls out of your car's finish.

I first learned about this specific type of flashlight back in March of 2005 while working as an Instructor for an advanced class on how-to wet-sand paint and then use a rotary buffer to remove sanding marks along with Kevin Brown, another well-known Professional Detailer and Rod Kraft a Field Rep for Meguiar's and also an accomplished detailer himself. Rod brought the Snap-On Tool version which is harder to obtain for most people.

A few months later, my good friend and Professional Detailer Joe Fernandez, who goes by the forum nickname SuperiorShine on all the detailing discussion forums and who was also at the Advanced Class in 2005, came by a shop where I was working on a car called the Panic Parrot. He showed me the Brinkmann version of the light Rod had shown us a few months earlier and let me test it out.

Here's the car I was working on along with Richard Lin for a how-to video, a 1950 Panic Parrot Starlight Coupe painted candy tangerine with purple flames.

Finished

Because it is a true show car, it had an exceptional finish with only very light swirls but the standard for a show car like this is zero swirls. If you look closely, you can see the tell-tale sign of the Brinkmann's dual light bulbs in this shot of the passenger's side fender.

There were more swirls in the paint on this show car but this is the only picture I have that shows the bulb reflection of the Brinkmann that documents how long I've been using this light thanks to Joe. Time Stamp on these pictures go to 6/22/2005


The Swirl Finder light let us know the paint only need light correction work and thus we only used a cleaner/polish with a DA to reach our goal. The Brinkmann Swirl Finder Light doesn't have to show gross swirls to be of value, it just has to light up the paint like the sun.

A must-have tool
Ever since learning about this flashlight I've incorporated it into all my classes and shared it with the students as a way of inspecting their work as well as using it myself for all the cars I detail to check my own work and progress.

Showing students how to use the Brinkmann Swirl Finder Light

So when you posted,

You really have to watch out for stuff like this. With the advent of the Internet, anyone can become a "writer", whether they actually know something or not.

I agree with you. It's all to easy for anyone to regurgitate what someone else has painstakingly created and then present it as thier own.

Wow. I got off a tangent there, didn't I?

It's easy to do...