Surprised to see a meguiar's G100 at my work

[Racersky]

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My garage is located beneath my deck so what I'm going to do is buy tarps from home depot and basically make temporary walls with anchored bottoms so it doesn't move around as much. My water line has both hot and cold water so I just make it warm so the water doesn't freezes. Talk about being ghetto yes.....but I live to improvise and use what I got to work with.

[ronniejay]

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How are you going to detail in the snow?

[Racersky]

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It was like close to 50 bucks so I wasn't really complaining about it since I got the DA for free and basically paid 50 bucks for maintenance guy also hook me up with the wrench to take the BP off lol

[ronniejay]

Re: Surprised to see a meguiar's G100 at my work

racersky.
What did they charge to fix it? Did you wait?

[SHYNEMAN123]

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I threw away so many of those old catalogs over the years. Let me dig around the garage and look for old meguiars stuff.

I did find a vhs tape on how to use Medallion. Is that rare?

It came in the box with the wax in the mid 90's I think.

[Superior Shine]

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I threw away so many of those old catalogs over the years. Let me dig around the garage and look for old meguiars stuff.

I did find a vhs tape on how to use Medallion. Is that rare?

[SHYNEMAN123]

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Mike this might help
Back in 1991 when I started detailing for a small used car dealer Meguiar's had a Distribution center and a Training Center in Carlisle PA. It was managed by Wayne Alfrey , Larry Alfrey his son and Bill Devoe. The 1st class I went in Carlisle Larry showed us what polishing with a DA could do. I still have the adpt.to fit the DA and the 6" version of the W1000 they gave out in class and use it today.

[SHYNEMAN123]

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Looked through my Meguiar's Brilliant Solutions catalog collection and the oldest one I can find dates back to 1995 and shows the Porter Cable Polisher in the ad copy.

My 1996 Brilliant Solutions catalog shows both a Porter Cable DA Polisher with the Porter Cable name on it and a picture of the Porter Cable DA Polisher with the Meguiar's name on it.

So it's certain that Meguiar's had introduced the DA Polisher to the enthusiasts market in 1995

It's possible we introduced it before 1995 but so far I can't find any documentation for it in my collection, that doesn't mean we didn't do it it just means that's as far back as my Brilliant Solutions catalog goes.

I have a 1989 and a 1990 Consumer Catalog on my desk and think I have some catalogs from 1988 when I first started working for the company.

Don't think I have anything earlier than this however.

Mike this might help
Back in 1991 when I started detailing for a small used car dealer Meguiar's had a Distribution center and a Training Center in Carlisle PA. It was managed by Wayne Alfrey , Larry Alfrey his son and Bill Devoe. The 1st class I went in Carlisle Larry showed us what polishing with a DA could do. I still have the adpt.to fit the DA and the 6" version of the W1000 they gave out in class and use it today.

[Racersky]

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So....let me a explain a little what happen today. I went to work got the DA on break went to Ace Hardware the guy fixed the cord and switch and then I paid a visit to walmart to start my meguiar's collection I know it's not the good stuff but i'm working on it lol. Ordering pads and backing plate for my DA and Dewalt tomorrow ^_^ feels like christmas already.

Here's my Dewalt 849 Rotary and small collection of the commercial products.


Here's my beginning of the meguiar's collection lol:


Look it's the G100 ^_^ I don't know how to use it yet so someone gotta direct me to some how-to's lol

[Mike Phillips]

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they had the G100 12 years ago?

Here's some pictures of my oldest catalogs... am trying to find out if there's any older catalogs than this...

The one on the left is from 1995 and the one on the right is from 1996, the catalog from 1995 documents Meguiar's introducing the G100 at least 13 years ago and before this we were showing people in the Professional Trade how to use air powered DA Sanders to polish paint by using our W5500 Foam Polishing Pad, which if you look closely is the actual pad on the Porter Cable unit pictured below, not a W-8006 on a W64 DA Backing Plate.






The lettering is kind of fuzzy but you can make out that it says Porter Cable



Does anyone reading this have an older Brilliant Solutions Catalog?

[Mike Phillips]

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they had the g100 12 years ago? i thought it was just something recent. surely it hasnt taken the 12years for the g100 to reach overseas shores such as australia!

Looked through my Meguiar's Brilliant Solutions catalog collection and the oldest one I can find dates back to 1995 and shows the Porter Cable Polisher in the ad copy.

My 1996 Brilliant Solutions catalog shows both a Porter Cable DA Polisher with the Porter Cable name on it and a picture of the Porter Cable DA Polisher with the Meguiar's name on it.

So it's certain that Meguiar's had introduced the DA Polisher to the enthusiasts market in 1995

It's possible we introduced it before 1995 but so far I can't find any documentation for it in my collection, that doesn't mean we didn't do it it just means that's as far back as my Brilliant Solutions catalog goes.

I have a 1989 and a 1990 Consumer Catalog on my desk and think I have some catalogs from 1988 when I first started working for the company.

Don't think I have anything earlier than this however.

[jfelbab]

Re: Surprised to see a meguiar's G100 at my work

they had the g100 12 years ago? i thought it was just something recent. surely it hasnt taken the 12years for the g100 to reach overseas shores such as australia!

No, I mis-represented how old it is. I bought it in 1999 so it is around 9 years old.

[Racersky]

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lol if it's that easy of a fix than there might be a PC in my collection this coming future

[Mike Phillips]

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Some of the G100's were sold with a lifetime warranty, you'll need to call Customer Care at 1-800-347-5700 and check with them. It's likely as others have said, a broken cord or worn brushes, both can be fixed.

[Wilco]

Re: Surprised to see a meguiar's G100 at my work

they had the g100 12 years ago? i thought it was just something recent. surely it hasnt taken the 12years for the g100 to reach overseas shores such as australia!