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After that they headed into the detail bays and were shown the tools and products they were going to use to correct and polish the vehicles.
The Wax Shop, Blackfire, Sonax, Wolfgang and I’m sure a few others I’m forgetting had options that were all available to use. Tools from a Porter Cable, to I think just about every Rupes and Flex on market!! Pads and towels were in abundance as well, various pads from Lake Country, Rupes and Buff and Shine. Towels from Autogeek and The Rag Company. All extremely high quality reputable brands.
This is my favorite part of the classes, besides learning from the top instructor in the industry, you get to try tools and products you’d never get a chance to without first buying them. You get to put the polisher, pads, polishes and towels to the torture test(how’s that for alliteration?).
With so much marketing and influencing going on in the scene, it’s nice to just find out for yourself what tools you like and with a team of professionals there to help and guide you through any questions or issues you may be facing.
Here Mike is teaching a lesson using a Porter Cable, which is to keep the pad flat while working with free spinning DA’s.
Spinning while it’s flat
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Not spinning..
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After this short lesson and how to and why to perform a test spot, the students then grabbed a PC and got to work!
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Mike even jumps in from time to time (buffing on a car with one of the best, that’s pretty awesome I’d say!!)
The Wax Shop, Blackfire, Sonax, Wolfgang and I’m sure a few others I’m forgetting had options that were all available to use. Tools from a Porter Cable, to I think just about every Rupes and Flex on market!! Pads and towels were in abundance as well, various pads from Lake Country, Rupes and Buff and Shine. Towels from Autogeek and The Rag Company. All extremely high quality reputable brands.
This is my favorite part of the classes, besides learning from the top instructor in the industry, you get to try tools and products you’d never get a chance to without first buying them. You get to put the polisher, pads, polishes and towels to the torture test(how’s that for alliteration?).
With so much marketing and influencing going on in the scene, it’s nice to just find out for yourself what tools you like and with a team of professionals there to help and guide you through any questions or issues you may be facing.
Here Mike is teaching a lesson using a Porter Cable, which is to keep the pad flat while working with free spinning DA’s.
Spinning while it’s flat
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Not spinning..
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After this short lesson and how to and why to perform a test spot, the students then grabbed a PC and got to work!
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Mike even jumps in from time to time (buffing on a car with one of the best, that’s pretty awesome I’d say!!)