Intel486

It's how guys in the military get that mirror like finish on their shoe... Man, that's some fun work right there

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CHScholl

During my army days I wasa lways proud of the sucessful spitshing I accomplished on not only my low quaters and booots but also the bill on my dress uniform hat.
However, this spit shine always faded in less than a day when exposed to mid supper sun and heat in Fort Knox,KY.
So before I'd devote hours and hours doing this to a full car I'd definately do a duration test of one patch.
One last thougth on spit shining, a n old trick was to wite a feshly polished shoe with a five day deodorant pad. It achieven the very same results as hours with a cotton ball and Kiwi.
Prehaps the pink wax +5 day migh be a short cut. Who would dare to say it stank ?

Nick T.

I’ve posted my review of Pink Carnauba Wax here.

CHScholl - - - I served for 20 years, at times in some pretty hot climates, and never had a problem with the shine fading due to the heat.

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rd_volvo

Food for thought!

I think many carnauba manufacturers specify not to use h2o in conjunction in the wax application due to carnaubas allergy to water. Maybe i'm explaining it wrong. QD may be a different story.

Any add ons to this.

rd

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kgb

I always did this with Zymol since that is what they tell you to do on the bottle. Always came out better after the water.

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Aurora40

Hmm, this is very interesting... Now that I have another car to drive, I can do more weird stuff on the Aurora. I'll have to give something like this a try (though it's such a big car). Your review of Pink wax was interesting, especially the part about the mirror test, very inventive.

I don't know that I'll go buy another tin of wax just to try spit-shining my car, but I think I might give your technique a try with some #16.

TOGWT

Quote: My grandfather sold shoes for more years than the ages of everyone in this post combined!

~One man’s opinion / observations ~

Spilchy not quite so sure of the validity of your claim with this post though. LOL

Spit-shine shoes (as I remember, and its been a long, long time, we used to heat the shoe polish before applying it) newspaper and vinegar to clean glass and coke to clean chrome, feels like I’m a kid again….

~Hope this helps~

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Scott P

I might have to give this technique a try this weekend when I detail the MG with some Natty Wax.

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Spilchy

You know when you read something and it immediately sparks a memory? Well Nick's spit shine story and shoes immediately made me think of my grandfather and his decades of shoe experience. I still have all his brushes, gadgets and leather shoe shine bag. I don't know, it just popped in to my head and flowed to the keyboard like that!

Sorry about the ramble, back to the thread at hand

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Don M

I had an old marine tell me to "fire" my boots. More of less apply a coat of wax to the boots, then use a cigarette lighter to melt the wax on/into the leather, buff like crazy, then repeat until you got the look you wanted...worked great...I don't thnk I'll do that to my car though

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TOGWT

~One man’s opinion / observations ~
Spilchy- my comment was only made because if you combine all the ages of the posts before my 0.02c and then add my age you’d reach high treble figures in a hurry…LOL

I talked with some of the USMC guys here at the base they still clean their boots with spit-shine and hot polish. My grandfather was in the Royal Irish Guards and taught me (RAF) how to clean and press my uniform; I think to this day he’s the one who got me started on this AR cleaning thing.

OK enough of this reminiscing… I have a mini (US version not the ‘real’ thing) to detail this week-end and I’m going to try this Wax on, wax on, wax on, wax off thing. Thanks for the insight Nick T

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Aurora40

You can also use lighter fluid instead of water with the wax, which gives a lot of shine. I wouldn't try that with a car either.