cardaddy
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So, so many funny parts for me (in that video at least).
I applaud Larry for his videos, they are much better produced than most. He's always professional and well spoken. Great service for what he's trying to accomplish. When I see AMMO though I think of when I was buying in bulk for my business, could have had my own label as well. I like it when he talks about "AMMO Spit", I can see me telling a client "Now sir, I'm going to clean your car with my special mix of SPIT and it'll be spotless". :laughing:
On to the video....
Yes sir.... It's OK to use hand soap 'sometimes' just not all the time. But you wanna make sure when you're stripping your paint that you use orange pumice hand soap. That'll make SURE you strip the wax off, and the paint and the primer and whatever else is in the way. :laughing:
I'm afraid I'm much more OCD with bird poo than he is. I make my family keep some QD and a bottle of drinking water in all the cars, along with a few MF towels. First thing is pour clean water on the poo till it softens. Then pour water on a towel and BLOT the poo spot, NEVER rub it. Bird poo is granular and will screw you up! Once it's gone, then go to the QD/spray wax/ etc. and do a gentle wipe.
Leessseee.... Oh.... grit guards, what did he say? Four, five maybe six bucks? I need to find out where he's getting his at!
The car duster part is where I start laughing. They are a very good tool, and I've seen them used on museum quality cars without damage. As with any tool, one needs to know how to use it. One thing I've NEVER done is lay it down on the car with the hard handle touching the paint (like in the video).
And I have to admit to using car dusters, been using them forever. Time and place though. One thing that is important with them, (that Larry missed I'm thinking) is you don't just throw them in the washer. Remember back when you were in elementary school or high school. Remember the janitor and his dust brooms he pushed down the hall. Same *exact* thing with car dusters. They are impregnated with paraffin wax! The wax is there to help them glide over dust and dirt, collecting it along the way. And hopefully... stop from scratching your paint. This is where it gets 'dusty' as they'll work for a long time, and continue to work very well, picking up dust and dirt for literally YEARS. Long after they start turning black they are still safe on *most* paint jobs. (I'd say the AG bunch and being as OCD as we tend to be, would be the LAST ones to accept the "duster" as by design it does hold dust and dirt in the fibers as it moves across the paint.) It'll even work differently on a hot surface than a ice cold one just for this reason. (It is wax after all.)
Bottom line is you DO NOT just drop it in the washer and think you'll put it back on the paint after that. I'll never be the same UNTIL it's been re-loaded with paraffin. Work uniform companies, janitorial supply houses etc. should have a process in place that can clean and re-wax car dusters. Either that, or just throw it away and buy a new one. Honestly.... for how long they last and how well they work, it's a no brainer to just get a new one once you start to see it leaving scratches on paint. Again, I've used them for years and probably have a couple that are 15~20 years old that still do fine on a DD for removing pollen and fine dust. Just use them ever so lightly, ever so lightly indeed.
I applaud Larry for his videos, they are much better produced than most. He's always professional and well spoken. Great service for what he's trying to accomplish. When I see AMMO though I think of when I was buying in bulk for my business, could have had my own label as well. I like it when he talks about "AMMO Spit", I can see me telling a client "Now sir, I'm going to clean your car with my special mix of SPIT and it'll be spotless". :laughing:
On to the video....
Yes sir.... It's OK to use hand soap 'sometimes' just not all the time. But you wanna make sure when you're stripping your paint that you use orange pumice hand soap. That'll make SURE you strip the wax off, and the paint and the primer and whatever else is in the way. :laughing:
I'm afraid I'm much more OCD with bird poo than he is. I make my family keep some QD and a bottle of drinking water in all the cars, along with a few MF towels. First thing is pour clean water on the poo till it softens. Then pour water on a towel and BLOT the poo spot, NEVER rub it. Bird poo is granular and will screw you up! Once it's gone, then go to the QD/spray wax/ etc. and do a gentle wipe.
Leessseee.... Oh.... grit guards, what did he say? Four, five maybe six bucks? I need to find out where he's getting his at!
The car duster part is where I start laughing. They are a very good tool, and I've seen them used on museum quality cars without damage. As with any tool, one needs to know how to use it. One thing I've NEVER done is lay it down on the car with the hard handle touching the paint (like in the video).
And I have to admit to using car dusters, been using them forever. Time and place though. One thing that is important with them, (that Larry missed I'm thinking) is you don't just throw them in the washer. Remember back when you were in elementary school or high school. Remember the janitor and his dust brooms he pushed down the hall. Same *exact* thing with car dusters. They are impregnated with paraffin wax! The wax is there to help them glide over dust and dirt, collecting it along the way. And hopefully... stop from scratching your paint. This is where it gets 'dusty'
as they'll work for a long time, and continue to work very well, picking up dust and dirt for literally YEARS. Long after they start turning black they are still safe on *most* paint jobs. (I'd say the AG bunch and being as OCD as we tend to be, would be the LAST ones to accept the "duster" as by design it does hold dust and dirt in the fibers as it moves across the paint.) It'll even work differently on a hot surface than a ice cold one just for this reason. (It is wax after all.)Bottom line is you DO NOT just drop it in the washer and think you'll put it back on the paint after that. I'll never be the same UNTIL it's been re-loaded with paraffin. Work uniform companies, janitorial supply houses etc. should have a process in place that can clean and re-wax car dusters. Either that, or just throw it away and buy a new one. Honestly.... for how long they last and how well they work, it's a no brainer to just get a new one once you start to see it leaving scratches on paint. Again, I've used them for years and probably have a couple that are 15~20 years old that still do fine on a DD for removing pollen and fine dust. Just use them ever so lightly, ever so lightly indeed.
