What WAS your favorite product/methods
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Could be he's talking about this?
Ultimate Detailing Machine™ Dual Action Orbital Polisher with FREE BONUS!
Hope so.
Bob
Let's see...I need to say something about wax so I don't get booted off of this thread haha.
Used Turtle wax rubbing compound one time thinking it shine my car up...it was all I had and boy did I mess up. Like to never got the stuff off and no shine. That's one I wished I'd never bought.
The church...
....as I recall the church sat up against a hill real tight and it had bell tower and was white. Actually, at the time I remember the church it was already several years old...maybe a decade or more at that tme. The first white church had been burned down...and eventually so was the one I went to. They ended up building a brown brick church across the road that's still standing. The name was and still is HorseCreek Holiness Church.
Parker's, Owens's, Abner's, Leonard & Wade Hacker (pastors in Manchester/Garrad), names that may or may not ring a bell? (I could name many more too. Blue Hole, KY...Engine Cemetary?
Another wax I wish I'd never bought and used when I was young was I tried some old furniture wax one time. Can't quite recall if it was Johnson's or Formby's...maybe. Liked to never got it removed. Of course it got slathered on the hood like may daddy layerin' Vick's vapor rub on my chest. It's a wonder I ever got the wax off. Heck, I thought the thicker the better lol? ....as I recall the church sat up against a hill real tight and it had bell tower and was white. Actually, at the time I remember the church it was already several years old...maybe a decade or more at that tme. The first white church had been burned down...and eventually so was the one I went to. They ended up building a brown brick church across the road that's still standing. The name was and still is HorseCreek Holiness Church.
Parker's, Owens's, Abner's, Leonard & Wade Hacker (pastors in Manchester/Garrad), names that may or may not ring a bell? (I could name many more too. Blue Hole, KY...Engine Cemetary?
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Yeah...Me too!
I forgot to mention this wax removal tool: Cheese cloth.
[It also was a good "fresh-cow's-milk" strainer, when held over the 5 gallon lard bucket, when a dish towel wasn't handy.]
Bob
I must have missed this earlier ha ha.
Buck-hopper, and here I thought I invented that term when I was a young lad. Just goes to show most good thing people think of, have already been thought of.
Well, I can understand why many folks left for jobs. Grandpa left there for work here in sw OH, which is why I'm here, but I've been thinkin' about hoppin' my way out of here because there are very few jobs left here now. Yep...some of my kin went right on to Detroit and have remained there as well...jobs leavin' there too.
That wax removing cheese cloth is good for strainin' the seeds out of my blackberry jelly too.
Funny thread...
...sort of reminds me how our would has changed...in a twisted sort of way. Went from detailin' and pettin' mules, to detailin' and pettin' cars ha ha.
Is Simonize still in business? Mike P. recently posted some photo's from way back when of some of the first detailing shops...using Simonize. That was great thread with lots of good American history. I'm glad there was a camera around to take those pictures.
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Here's some Simonize products...Very few are still on the market for consumers, though.
-simonizusa.com
-simonizusa.com/consumer/Content/Product_Demo_Videos.asp
-detaildirect.simonizusa.com/Store/default.asp?CategoryID=331
-detaildirect.simonizusa.com/Store/default.asp?CategoryID=330
-simoniz.com/Business/MSDS/msds.asp
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we have simoniz here in canada sold at canadian tire, mostly subpar products
my favorite products back when i was around 15/16 was the mothers 3 step product, wax cleaner,polish and you heard it well, cleaner wax lol, I was using the wrong wax for the job so basically i was cleaning the car paint twice.
then slapping a nice need i say HEAVY coat of meguiars gold class wax on top of that
it was absolutely hellish to remove the shell it made, always had my dad or a buddy help me out
my mom's black grand am always looked better than the other cars in the street at that time even if now i know it was only 50%
my favorite products back when i was around 15/16 was the mothers 3 step product, wax cleaner,polish and you heard it well, cleaner wax lol, I was using the wrong wax for the job so basically i was cleaning the car paint twice.
then slapping a nice need i say HEAVY coat of meguiars gold class wax on top of that
it was absolutely hellish to remove the shell it made, always had my dad or a buddy help me out
my mom's black grand am always looked better than the other cars in the street at that time even if now i know it was only 50%
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Thank you. I had no idea.
I've heard of people using similar. Thanks for the picturesque idyllic memory.
Yeah...Me too!
I forgot to mention this wax removal tool: Cheese cloth.
[It also was a good "fresh-cow's-milk" strainer, when held over the 5 gallon lard bucket, when a dish towel wasn't handy.]
Bob
I haven't seen people use cheesecloth since the 70's. Always caused a hangnail for me.
Many originally believed in the virtue of a heavy coat. Thanks for posting.
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Blue Coral 2 step, and thinking one of those worthless buffers would help doing it. Worse, thinking a 'better' buffer costing a little more would be worth it.
Oh yeah, Simonize paste wax, DuPont rubbing compound, Rain Dance, Fire truck Shine, Trucker's wax, and how many more I don't remember.
Oh yeah, Simonize paste wax, DuPont rubbing compound, Rain Dance, Fire truck Shine, Trucker's wax, and how many more I don't remember.
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Rain Dance. Cheesecloths too.
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You guys are a bunch of youngsters. Kit FTW!
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I got hold of an old can of Blue Coral once. And only once.
Other than the hang nails,they seem to have worked pretty good.
Kit was a good paste wax back in the day- but i still preferred raindance.
The year that I was born was the year of the first American in space.
I might be a youngster,relatively speaking, but tell that to my knees after doing 2 basic washes today.
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Good ol' Alan Shepard. I gotta be careful with my knees, too.
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I wear the cheap foam rubber kneepads because they are more confortable and look less silly than some of the more expensive ones, but it is still in the bones.
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Thanks for posting BillE. I have never heard of this product; however I still use corn starch when using greaseless compounds on aluminum.
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3m Finesse-it products. Looked great until it got wet.
My favorite discovery when I was in high school was Meg's quick detailer, I always kept my cars washed and the QD would take the dust off. Of course at that point I knew little about swirls. I had worked at a body supply shop and a body shop so I knew how to do a hack buff job. I've learned some since then, learn more and more the longer I hang out here.
My favorite discovery when I was in high school was Meg's quick detailer, I always kept my cars washed and the QD would take the dust off. Of course at that point I knew little about swirls. I had worked at a body supply shop and a body shop so I knew how to do a hack buff job. I've learned some since then, learn more and more the longer I hang out here.
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Did you have any issues with streaking using Finesse-it back then?
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Hi VT...
I use 3M Finesse-it II Finishing Material (#05928), followed-up with 3M Imperial Hand Glaze (#05990), and a sealant. I've observed no streaking when using these two 3M products.
Bob