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Surface preparation is one of the most important steps when polishing to achieve a flawless finish. Regardless of how clean you think your paint is, there are still contaminants stuck on the paint that you need to remove before waxing or polishing your paint. Road film, oil, tar, grease, water...

Clear Coats Scratch Resistant During recent years, scratch resistance has become a major area of clear coat R&D and test method development in the laboratories of the automotive coating suppliers, the automotive industry itself, and many research facilities. Especially on dark colour shades...

[: any liquid, liquefiable, or mastic composition which after application to a substrate in a thin layer is converted to an opaque solid film] [1]. Urethane paint was first created in the mid-1960s, utilizing the newly-developed plastics technology of that era, to be superior to enamel...

Driving the Queen's cars, part 2 - Telegraph

A thought for anyone who's Father's is no longer with them... [Dad, I thought of you today, but that is nothing new. I thought about u yesterday, and days before that too. I think of you in silence, I often speak your name, all I have are memories and a picture in a frame, your memory is a...

(from a Men’s Health article) If only you’d continued your football career . . . you’d be stronger! Athletes really can tolerate more pain than the average person, according to a recent review of 15 studies and more than 550 athletes and 330 people with normal activity levels in the June...

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Provided the paint finish has been rinsed adequately (See Drying a Vehicle ‘sheeting’ water) there should be no dirt residue. Water is a good solvent but a very poor surface lubricator. Try using a drying aid type detailer (Dodo Juice USA -Time to Dry, Finish Kare - FK425, Autoglym Aqua Wax...

Vehicle manufacturer studies have shown that failure to remove environmental contaminants (like imbedded rail dust, acid rain, industrial fallout and other environmental contaminants) from paint film can cause premature degradation of the paint system. While clay products are useful for...

Paint System A BC_CC paint system comprises; a clear coat, which has no pigmentation (colour) that provides both protection and depth of gloss for the base coat. A base coat or colour coat has a pigmentation added to provide the vehicle colour. Polymer degradation [: a change in the...

Nanoskin Surface Prep Towel Surface contaminants As the name implies they sit above the surface of the paint; they are subject to greater abrasive forces than the surrounding areas when a surface prep towel is rubbed over them. As a result, they are abraded away and removed. You may be...

2012 Aston Martin V8 VANTAGE S Roadster Review, Specs, & Pictures

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Posted on facebook by Aaron Evan Kimpton :chuckle: Please join me in remembering a great ICON of the entertainment community. The Pillsbury DOughboy died yesterday of a yeast infection and trauma complications from repeated pokes in the belly. He was 71. DOughboy was buried in a...

It's a Bank Holiday, so of course its raining and cold here...but watever the weather we can do pageants ;) Queen's diamond jubilee: Thames flotilla - live | UK news | guardian.co.uk

When Employees Become the Competition | Entrepreneur.com From the article link: When Employees Become the Competition While traveling in Pennsylvania recently, I stopped off in Pittsburgh to visit Nick Vacco, a serial entrepreneur. Vacco’s 13-year-old company, Detail King, is an...

Concrete [: a construction material composed of cement (commonly Portland cement) as well as other cementitious materials such as fly ash and slag cement, aggregate (generally a coarse aggregate made of crushed rocks such as limestone, or granite, plus a fine aggregate such as sand), water, and...