Mike Phillips
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SoCal Roadshow Class - Pictures & Comments
On Saturday, November 28th we held our first roadshow class at Mel Craig's detail shop in Huntington Beach, California. I'd like to thank Mel for opening the doors to his shop for this first roadshow class and all his generous hospitality.
I'd also like to thank everyone that attended especially on such short notice. I would like to apologize that we were unable to work on the Marty McFly 4x4 due to mechanical issues that prevented the car from getting to the shop. The good news is my rental car was contaminated and swirled out and for training purposes worked perfect.
Mel's shop is well lit and spacious...
First we went around the class to see what everyone's experience level is for detailing. Using a scale of 1 to 5 where 1 means bran new to car detailing and 5 means experienced professional, most everyone fell into the 3-5 range.
Topics included the proper techniques for claying paint...
After claying we went over machine correction and machine polishing. I shipped out my 2 RUPES Mark II BigFoot 15 and BigFoot 21 polishers for everyone to test out. First a demonstration on how to compound and polish using RUPES polishers.
After compounding and polishing the next topic was how to properly prepare paint for a coating. For this portion of the class we used Pinnacle Black Label Surface Cleansing Polish followed by Pinnacle Black Label Diamond Paint Coating.
All my classes are hands-on classes including Roadshow classes. I know from experience that people learn from "doing" not sitting in a chair.
Before turning everyone loose on the rental car I demonstrate the engineering behind RUPES tools, backing plates and buffing pads. This is the "Air Test". What you do is hold the RUPES polisher on high speed in the air without a pad on the backing plate. When you do this you will feel vibration in the tool body. Then you place the appropriate RUPES pad on the RUPES polisher and repeat the same test and you'll see all the vibration is gone. This shows how the RUPES pads are specifically made for the RUPES tool and if you want to use any other pad you may experience vibration issues.
Here's Rigo Santana from Extreme Excellence Professional Detailers testing out the new RUPES Mark II BigFoot 21 with a RUPES blue coarse foam cutting pad and Pinnacle Advanced Compound.
On Saturday, November 28th we held our first roadshow class at Mel Craig's detail shop in Huntington Beach, California. I'd like to thank Mel for opening the doors to his shop for this first roadshow class and all his generous hospitality.
I'd also like to thank everyone that attended especially on such short notice. I would like to apologize that we were unable to work on the Marty McFly 4x4 due to mechanical issues that prevented the car from getting to the shop. The good news is my rental car was contaminated and swirled out and for training purposes worked perfect.
Mel's shop is well lit and spacious...
First we went around the class to see what everyone's experience level is for detailing. Using a scale of 1 to 5 where 1 means bran new to car detailing and 5 means experienced professional, most everyone fell into the 3-5 range.
Topics included the proper techniques for claying paint...
After claying we went over machine correction and machine polishing. I shipped out my 2 RUPES Mark II BigFoot 15 and BigFoot 21 polishers for everyone to test out. First a demonstration on how to compound and polish using RUPES polishers.
After compounding and polishing the next topic was how to properly prepare paint for a coating. For this portion of the class we used Pinnacle Black Label Surface Cleansing Polish followed by Pinnacle Black Label Diamond Paint Coating.
All my classes are hands-on classes including Roadshow classes. I know from experience that people learn from "doing" not sitting in a chair.
Before turning everyone loose on the rental car I demonstrate the engineering behind RUPES tools, backing plates and buffing pads. This is the "Air Test". What you do is hold the RUPES polisher on high speed in the air without a pad on the backing plate. When you do this you will feel vibration in the tool body. Then you place the appropriate RUPES pad on the RUPES polisher and repeat the same test and you'll see all the vibration is gone. This shows how the RUPES pads are specifically made for the RUPES tool and if you want to use any other pad you may experience vibration issues.
Here's Rigo Santana from Extreme Excellence Professional Detailers testing out the new RUPES Mark II BigFoot 21 with a RUPES blue coarse foam cutting pad and Pinnacle Advanced Compound.
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