Paint overspray removal is a specialized field

[Jeff Suggs]

The only way you can consider yourself a paint overspray removal specialist is to be able to repair anything and not diminish the vehicle's clear-coat in the process. This means removing any type of overspray damage without the use of compounds, solvents, and most of all wet-sanding. 99.9% of everyone that is removing paint overspray today are using some form of the clay-bar. This simply means that they have only been removing overspray from vehicle sense the clay-bar was invented back in 1993. If you were doing it before that you were using compounds and wet-sanding which voids factory warranties. So just because the clay-bar is around now and you may removing the paint overspray from a vehicle every know and then, sure as hell don't make you a specialist. I notice that a lot of detail folks may think they know a thing or two about removing overspray from a vehicle, but you only know what someone else told you to know. Long before the clay-bar was ever invented, I have been repairing vehicles from overspray damage, chemical stains, and other paint problems. This means that the instructors on this forum or any other forum don't have the 24 years of experience and the thousands of vehicle repairs as I do. Many years before this forum was ever around I was repairing vehicles. Their answer to removing hard core Protective Marine Coatings is to wet-sand and use compounds which again diminishes the vehicles clear-coat and voids the factory warranty. The only way any of the members on this forum is ever going to call themselves overspray removal specialist is to wake up and come on out of the stone age of auto paint repair. Everyone is still using the same old ways of doing things. I can teach anyone that has a steady hand how to blade a vehicle and get paid !

[uniquedetailing]

you inspire me jeff, ive seen so many of your videos, i want to be a specialist like you one day when i grow up.

[uniquedetailing]

Paint Overspray Removal International Services "German engineering at its best" - YouTube

This video taught me so much Jeff, screw what ive learnt so far, i was gonna order a new hd polisher but after seeing you Jeff im going down to walmart and buy one of those magic buffer they sell for $20......

[Flash Gordon]

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[MachNU]

I a curious as how rubbing a razor blade against paint is not really considered being 10x worse than wet sanding and buffing. I think I am going to start removing over spray with a K-Bar knife, if its good enough for the marines its good enough to remove overspray off the paint.

[Jeff Suggs]

Think about for this a minute MachNU, when you wet-sand a vehicle your taking off a layer of clear-coat so much so that you have to use compounds to restore the finish. I demonstrate in my videos that I can remove any type of overspray with a razor blade, hold the camera and not but one scratch in the paint. The thread I just made was to get your attention. You are doing things the same old way new materials, is the only things that has changed. When you are watching me blade a car in my videos, there is no hiding anything. You would be able to clearly see if there was any damage occurring during the process. I demonstrate this in my videos with people watching in HD and no cutaways. Just because someone from this site did not show or tell you how this is done is no reason to discredit it. I travel all over the world because I am the only person that is able to repair vehicles that are damaged like the ones on my Youtube site and others. I have never met such a group of people so against something just because they can't do it, or figure out how its done. I would like to pass some of my techniques along to someone else. There is more then one reason why all these websites and web ads from all over the world featuring my videos. People that are not so closed minded see past who I am, or if am cursing in my videos and realize that this is not done everyday.

[Jeff Suggs]

uniquedetailing You have to ask yourself this, can I restore textured moldings back to factory condition with a buffer ? Can I repair a vehicle from deep scratches without the use of compounds or wet-sanding ? Can I remove hard core Protective Marine Coatings or Polyurethane spray-foam ? check out one of my custom Chevy & GMC door trim & wiper arm package. I have a 3 step process that allows me to polish these parts to a mirror finish. This is something that you can call unique because it looks kick *** and gives these parts a custom look without repainting or replacing any parts. These are just a few things that I demonstrate in HD so that you can clearly see the results. I have done this package on over 500 vehicles around the USA and soon in Dubai. You can charge 150 for 4 doors and tell your customer the wiper arms are free. Just watch the videos and the next time you have a new Chevy or GMC try it out. Once you have done this, you will see how great it looks in person

[Jeff Suggs]

Thats funny but you can't do it till you have some vehicles that have real damage. I have researched a lot of the members and have found no websites or web ads from other countries or elsewhere that feature their work. Go to my Youtube site and look to the right and you will see just a few of them that I have linked to there. Auto TV, WorldNews Network, Mainheadline news, IndiaEveryday, restoration channel, and much more. This is coming from an American you should be proud of that fact. If there were someone other then me, they would going to Dubai. Believe me when i tell you this, An American is their last choice to be going over there and do any kind of work other then in the oil game there playing. This is my second trip there and they know that I will be using a razor blade to remove the Industrial paint overspray off their 100 plus vehicles. This is over 10 million in vehicles, all high end rides average price is over 100 thousand. I will make the videos and post them everywhere

[Nth Degree]

Who put more quarters into the "Whack-a-Mole" machine???

[TOGWT]

Before the advent of detailer’s clay it was a common practice to remove paint-overspray with a one-sided razor blade and a surface lubricant or by polishing the surface with a compound / polish and a wool pad. Surface contaminates were removed with a polish or by wet-sanding, but these are methods are very invasive and will remove clear coat. This was the way I was taught when I first stated detailing in '58, chemicals have made many advances from then...and so should we

First used by Japanese auto manufacturers on vehicle production lines and then auto body repair shops, the technology was passed on to the US market in the late ‘90’s. Detailer's clay is now routinely used by OEM's, professional detailer's, vehicle auctions and body shops as a simple, safe way to remove paint over-spray, tree sap and industrial fallout from both vehicle paint and chrome and glass surfaces

The malleable clay bar is rapidly being superseded by the Surface Prep Towel: “Nanoskin Surface Prep Towel” - Nanoskin Surface Prep Towel

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[pixelmonkey]

I find it quite interesting you would choose to make your points about paint over-spray removal in a section of the site that focuses on Machine Polishing & Sanding.

It appears you have placed your thread incorrectly in the forums sub-topic structure.
It might be better seen and receive more responses if it were moved to a category better suited to what you are emphasizing as the best method to remove paint over-spray.
You might want to reply to the thread or send a Private Message to a Forum Moderator or Admin, in asking which section of the site this thread should be placed.

This section of the site is wrong for this thread, in which you stress the following points.

This means removing any type of overspray damage without the use of compounds, solvents, and most of all wet-sanding.

If you were doing it before that you were using compounds and wet-sanding which voids factory warranties.

wet-sand and use compounds which again diminishes the vehicles clear-coat and voids the factory warranty.

From that, it's clear you stress wet sanding and using polishing compounds is a way to destroy a car and void a warranty.

you inspire me jeff, ive seen so many of your videos, i want to be a specialist like you one day when i grow up.

inspiration!
chris<pixelmonkey>