Spit Shine
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blucpe
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i've done it, but i used chilled qd instead of water. it worked great for me, i used pb's s&g.:waxing:
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Legacy99 said:
Not exactly (see below). Have you tried it? I'd be interested to hear how it works...I had a feeling it wouldn't work out so well so I've never done it in the sense of a true, by-machine spit-shine.
blucpe said:
Same approach here, but I usually use Griot's Speedshine. Oughta work fine with water too. And I'd expect chilled to be good enough, "iced" sounds a bit on the cold side but that's just a gut-feeling.
I don't really do a *genuine* spit-shine though, but rather what I refer to as a "pseudo spit-shine". I spritz the QD on, work the wax with my PC/Cyclo until it's almost gone using a foam finishing pad, but I quit before I've worked the wax to the point of "it's gone" the way you do with a real spit-shine. The light wax residue that's left to dry is a lot thinner than it would be with a regular wax application though, and I do get a *little* better wax job.
Better, in this case, means a *SLIGHTLY* (as in, am I imagining it :think: ) better gloss and a much more noticeable change in the beading- the beads are more spherical and just *barely* contact the paint; like tiny roller bearings sitting on the vehicle.
I never really like applying the waxes I use via MF, I prefer foam pads. Working the waxes I use on MF bonnets ala genuine spit-shine would almost certainly result in the MF getting too loaded/caked/etc. with wax, it might even lead to micromarring. Again, this is just a gut-feeling, but I'm *so* certain it wouldn't work out that I'm not gonna try it.
A few times I've accidentally come close to doing it: I overworked the wax (this was with #16), sorta like with a geniune spit-shine. In those cases the wax didn't buff away to nothing but rather left a slight clear residue. It was a *REAL* PIA to buff off the little residue that was left. This is about as close as I've come to having #16-removal-issues and it was enough of a hassle to scare me off of doing real spit-shines by machine. Might not have happened with another wax, but I'm afraid to find out.