Ice water after several coats of carnauba

[1oldsalt]

Hey back in the early 80's. Yes I'm old we use to use cornstrach as a final polish to make the car really shine. So putting ice water between carnauba wax seem logical to cure it.

All the supplies we used came about from using different stuff to make the shine better

Ed

Ha. I was wondering when someone would mention cornstarch. We use to use it all the time when removing carnauba. Harly wax then dust with cornstarch. Sometimes these little tricks get lost over time.

 

[Setec Astronomy]

Ha. I was wondering when someone would mention cornstarch. We use to use it all the time when removing carnauba. Harly wax then dust with cornstarch. Sometimes these little tricks get lost over time.

That sounds like one that's better off lost, LOL!

 

[FUNX650]

Now...Even though I've stated:

....but is it worth it.

...and I have better things to do with what's left of my time here on earth.
____________________________________________________________________________________________________

I've still done the below: 'testing-process':

...Meg's #26 (including a chilled-distilled 'water treatment' 8 hrs. later)

-Does my above 'testing-process' mean that I'm guilty of either:

1.) The OP's thread-starter:
Re: Ice water after several coats of carnauba...?

2.) Or:
'Spit-Shining'...?

Hardly!...I must adamantly state.



Bob

 

[A-train]

I have heard on some other boards that the purpose of this is to keep certain waxes from "sweating". One write up in particular was dodo juice supernatural, if layered it has a tendency to "sweat" and put off a haze. The ice water was suppose to prevent this, since the haze wouldn't show up for a day or two after waxed.


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[BillyJack]

I grew up in the car business, sanding, taping, polishing and waxing as far back as my primary school years in the late 50's. Reading about the cold water process made my shoulders hurt. Memories of the original Blue Coral, when it was a necessary step to remove the haze.

Bill

 

[BillyJack]

Hey back in the early 80's. Yes I'm old we use to use cornstrach as a final polish to make the car really shine. So putting ice water between carnauba wax seem logical to cure it.

All the supplies we used came about from using different stuff to make the shine better

Ed

Haven't heard of cornstarch in a long, long time. Back in the 70's, I was helping an older painter with some spot repairs on a Corvette. After sanding and compounding, he sprinkled some cornstarch on a clean wool pad and proceeded to do his final polishing. I went out to my car and returned with some Meguiar's #7, which I applied by hand. My #7 fender shined up quite a bit better than his cornstarch fender. I said technology marches on, time to get with it. Little did I know, #7 had been around longer than either him or I.

Back then we had 10-12 lb. single speed rotaries, choice of 2 different compounds that were like buckets of sand slurry and two different knits of wool pads. I buffed a lot of cars in the "good old days", but I'll take today's products and processes for the win anytime.

Bill

 

[ScottB]

I've heard people say to spit shine a car you lay down a coat of wax then spray it with Ice water as you layer on additional coats. They claim that the ice water stops the solvents in the coat being applied from dissolving the coat of wax that's already on the car. A bit too OCD for me. I'll pass.

I remember this too rops:

 

[BillE]

One thing about using corn starch, it is slightly abrasive. Before we oldies found out about #7 (and all of its' magic), that super fine corn starch helped to refine (jewel?) the finish.

Also as stated above, being a bit abrasive, it would help cut that thick layer of wax we just applied (we didn't 'know' about 'thin' then).

Bill

 

[tguil]

I grew up in the car business, sanding, taping, polishing and waxing as far back as my primary school years in the late 50's. Reading about the cold water process made my shoulders hurt. Memories of the original Blue Coral, when it was a necessary step to remove the haze.

Bill

Yep, I used the original Blue Coral almost exclusivley in the 60's and 70's. The directions on the can stated that you were to followup buffing with cold water. Application and buffing were done by hand. It was a lot more work that any other wax available at the time.

Tom

 

[flamed03vert]

I came back to this post because I remembered hearing something about spraying with ice water and wiping down to control static to keep the newly waxed surface from attrating dust... myth?

 

[06S2k07Si]

Wow...I never knew half of this! Hmmm.

Thanks all.