Rupes detailing belt.

I don't get how you could keep all that "stuff"
clear of the paint when polishing......
Good point Mark...
A person would have to be another Nadia Comince, Bart Conner, or Mary Lou Retton...
in order to 'clear the paint" with this belt on!!

Plus:
I wouldn't want to take the chance that it would wrinkle-up my brand new detailing apron.
Gotta keep up the appearances, et al.

:)

Bob
 
It needs just one more Rupes logo on it...because without them, I'd never know what brand belt it is, lol. Looks like something this guy would wear.....


+1.

Would be even more useless than the mechanics creeper I bought for lower panels.
 
Just to note...


I wouldn't wear this belt while machine polishing a car, in fact in a number of places on this forum and in my new how-to book I teach people to buff out panels like LARGE, roofs, hoods and truck lids ALL THE WAY FROM BEGINNING TO END because in order to reach out to the middle and work the center you're going to have to LEAN against the side body panels like fenders.

It would be as I call it, working backwards to for example compound the hood and then compound the sides of the fenders only to then POTENTIALLY re-inflict scratches back into the compounded fenders and you next polished the hood and thus leaning against the fender you just compounded.

If you want to take this example further, it would be working backwards to polish the sides of the fender after polishing the hood only to come back and lean against the fender as you wax, seal or coat the hood.


While I don't have any pictures of myself doing the polishing steps to this car I can guarantee you I had to lean against the sides of the cars as I worked on the center of the horizontal surfaces because it's HUGE!

Testing Out Chemical Guys Black Wax - 1964 BLACK Catalina


And just to document... look what I wrote almost to the day, one year ago...

Time Stamp: 11-26-2012


Post #25


Mike Phillips said:
The car is so big that the only way I can reach the middle of all the horizontal panels is to lean on the sides of the car so I have to finish all the horizontal panels before I do the finish polishing step to the vertical panels or I would re-instill scratches into the vertical panels.

Make sense?


That all said, I think the belt is really cool and I love the idea, makes me think of carpenters and such that wear their fully stocked tool belts to be more efficient with their time.

There are other aspects of car detailing where this belt could come in handy, especially in a production detail shop. But for the kind of cars I tend to work on and we detail here at Autogeek, it's probably better to just wear a soft cotton t-shirt that covers the front of your pant's belt loops and snap so if you do lean against the car you've reduced the potential to mar or scratch the paint.


Looks cool though and I'll keep the one Francesco and Marco gave me at SEMA for my collection of trophies acquired in my career in the detailing world.


And the Catalina came out wonderful...


Finished...

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:)
 
they also sent you guys home with the lhr 12e right ;) w.o the kit?! a haha ;) ;) nudge nudge lol


Yes. This one,

Close-up pictures of the new Rupes Duetto 12mm Orbital Polisher

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And this one...


New Rupes LHR75E Mini in action

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So after SEMA we had 4 of the new Rupes all together...

New Rupes Duetto and Rupes Mini Polishers vs Prototypes


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And we let all our local forum members put them to good use that next two Thursdays after SEMA...


Pictures: 2013 Dodge Charger - Black Label Diamond Paint Coating- New Rupes Polishers - Pictures & Video

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Ready for the Mud!

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I don't get how you could keep all that "stuff" clear of the paint when polishing......

I agree, I'll just walk over and away from the car I'm working on and keep it safe. Couldn't agree more about the logos too, one is enough but maybe that's the "Autogeek Garage" TV edition where it would make more sense....and cents, LOL!

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Holy Swirls BatMike!

You going to clean up the Batmobile?
 
After seeing the belt on and with products in it, the name everywhere looks cheesy, just saying. You might look like a "Joker" wearing it but "riddle me this", does it work good where Mr. Freeze is from and do they make em' for short guys like The Penquin? I'd love to see the original Bat Girl with one on or maybe the first 2 Cat Women and original Bat Girl could wrestle for it!

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