Jeff Smith used a rotary for the first time.

[Jeff Smith]

Well, I wanted to do a hand applied coat of NXT on it as the LSP but by the time I did all the other stuff I was whooped. So, I took the easy way out and applied th NXT liquid by PC. I might throw a hand applied coat on it Sunday night at work if things are slow.

I do have some pics and am getting ready to upload them to the other computer to see how they turned out. By the time I got everything done I lost sunlight here at the house so I had to drive around to find a decent spot. I finally found one and hope they turned out well.

I took a few more today but had no sun. I took the Boys up to the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum and took some pics of the truck sitting in front of the U.S. Captol Bldg. Hope they are keepers.

[Jeff Smith]

Man, This white is hard to get good pics of in the sun. I thought I had decent reflection shots in every pic but in most the brightness of the white almost seems to drown out the reflections. I wonder if I should just try some night shots instead.

[Ranger72]

Very nice Jeff..... Yeah I hear you with taking reflectino shtos with white.... The key is to wait till sunset, but not so late that it gets dark... YOu have like a 30 minute window... lol.... ALso, take te pics of the side of the truck thats in the shade, not the sun. Looks great, I remember the first time I used a rotary, what a great feeling... The only dumb thing was that I tried 83 with a cutting pad! lol talk about sling..... hahahahaha

[Jeff Smith]

Originally posted by Ranger72
Very nice Jeff..... Yeah I hear you with taking reflectino shtos with white.... The key is to wait till sunset, but not so late that it gets dark... YOu have like a 30 minute window... lol.... ALso, take te pics of the side of the truck thats in the shade, not the sun. Looks great, I remember the first time I used a rotary, what a great feeling... The only dumb thing was that I tried 83 with a cutting pad! lol talk about sling..... hahahahaha

That was one thing I was lucky on. no sling. I did have a few drops of minor splatter on the windsheild but most were pinhead sized specs here and there.

Yeah, this was close to sunset. A few of them were at the house but the sun was in the trees.

[Jeff Smith]

Well, today I took it one step further just for the heck of it. I applied a coat of NXT paste with the PC. This was my first time applying paste by machine. I removed with a GC Bonnet.

I have to say I kind of liked the way it went. I guess the thicker consistancy gives one the impression that he is doing something a little above and beyond what one is used to when it comes to workng with the liquids.

I used a plastic putty knife to scrape it out of the can. I temp of the NXT was a little cool so it seemed a little flaky to me. Probaby would have gone alot smoother had it been a warmer day or I warmed to can up a little. I have one of these little coffee cup warmers here and next time I might warm the product up a bit.

But overall, the application went well. I wanted to knock this out because I must have 6-7 cans of Meguiar's paste waxes I have not touched since buying the PC. As far as looks, I can't say it looks any better or worse than a liquid application. It looks great but looks great when I apply a liquid as well.