BottleHead
04-07-2005, 01:27 AM
OK.....it`s all your fault. Every last one of you. You`ve made me do it. A pox upon you all! <wink>
After having lurked about around here for the past several months, you have all convinced me to invest in a PC. It arrived today and, as I write, rests on the desk next to me. It along with the various accessories which I ordered with it. (A Sonus 5" backing plate, a Sonus DAS Orange pad, two DAS Greens, two DAS Blues, and a handful of MF buffing bonnets. )
So, why should I title myself as reluctant? Well it is a bit of a story, that. About 18 or 20 years back I purchased a 10" orbital buffer (Sears, I think...but it`s been awhile. I might be mistaken.) It was about the same size....and weight....as a ship`s anchor. Unfortunately, all I was ever able to accomplish with it was to ruin the paint on the vehicle I owned at the time. (Don`t ask me which products I was using....memory is always the second thing to decay with age.) So, forever after, it sat on a shelf in the cellar until I sold the house and was then intentionally left behind when I moved.
Since this utter failure, my feelings toward machine polishing has been one of generally unbridled paranoia. As such, I have remained comfortably within the realm of hand application and polishing. Until now, of course. Now, I am putting my toes back into the waters once again.
My intended victim (other than you blokes for luring me into all of this again, of course) is my new Chrysler 300C. Being a mere six weeks out of the factory, the paint is obviously still in perfect condition and shouldn`t need anything more agressive than AIO for some time yet to come...barring the unforseen vehicular misadventure, anyway.
Therefore, my general regimen (or at least the PC-related portions of it) for the present is mostly limited to AIO and carnauba. To start, my planned gingerly first step is to add second coat of Souveran to the hand applied layer laid down last week. I should be able to avoid any REAL damage with something so simple, I should think. I`ll move on from there in the future.
While I have already been repeatedly over the `Using the PC` in the knowledgebase, I am looking for any advice that anyone might wish to offer in additon to what is contained therein. Any amount of wisdom anyone might wish to offer is most welcome.
.....BH
After having lurked about around here for the past several months, you have all convinced me to invest in a PC. It arrived today and, as I write, rests on the desk next to me. It along with the various accessories which I ordered with it. (A Sonus 5" backing plate, a Sonus DAS Orange pad, two DAS Greens, two DAS Blues, and a handful of MF buffing bonnets. )
So, why should I title myself as reluctant? Well it is a bit of a story, that. About 18 or 20 years back I purchased a 10" orbital buffer (Sears, I think...but it`s been awhile. I might be mistaken.) It was about the same size....and weight....as a ship`s anchor. Unfortunately, all I was ever able to accomplish with it was to ruin the paint on the vehicle I owned at the time. (Don`t ask me which products I was using....memory is always the second thing to decay with age.) So, forever after, it sat on a shelf in the cellar until I sold the house and was then intentionally left behind when I moved.
Since this utter failure, my feelings toward machine polishing has been one of generally unbridled paranoia. As such, I have remained comfortably within the realm of hand application and polishing. Until now, of course. Now, I am putting my toes back into the waters once again.
My intended victim (other than you blokes for luring me into all of this again, of course) is my new Chrysler 300C. Being a mere six weeks out of the factory, the paint is obviously still in perfect condition and shouldn`t need anything more agressive than AIO for some time yet to come...barring the unforseen vehicular misadventure, anyway.
Therefore, my general regimen (or at least the PC-related portions of it) for the present is mostly limited to AIO and carnauba. To start, my planned gingerly first step is to add second coat of Souveran to the hand applied layer laid down last week. I should be able to avoid any REAL damage with something so simple, I should think. I`ll move on from there in the future.
While I have already been repeatedly over the `Using the PC` in the knowledgebase, I am looking for any advice that anyone might wish to offer in additon to what is contained therein. Any amount of wisdom anyone might wish to offer is most welcome.
.....BH