Hope its ok to post in this section. My questions pertain to working on our vehicles and since I do it by hand, I thought I'd post here and not in Detailing 101.
1)When using the foam pads that comes with the boxed products (not pads for the buffer maachines), how can you correctly use pressure so you do not use your fingers too much? I saw in a video or some wheres, if you use the foam pads you can actually see the finger pads on the other side from too much pressure. My main use of the foam pads is to apply the GoldClass Carnauba Plus (oh, and Nxt tech wax 2.0). I don't think I press too hard to even get my finger prints on the foam pad, but I want to make sure I don't. I have a hard enough time getting a thin layer-mainly with the carnauba wax.
2) The videos show using a pad to apply the 3 cleaners I have (swirlx, scratchx and ult. compound). I do not really do this. I have towels (I think terry?), and I put a dab of cleaner on the towel and work it using one or two fingers. Generally, the area I am dealing with on our vehicles are not very large. Even the bit larger ones, I do this. I also start with the less-abrasive one and work my way up, if needed.
So, is this not right? I've had success at removing most.
Must say, doing by hand is time-consuming. But, I really like doing it, and except for my hand and arm getting very tired, the results are really nice and makes me feel like all the work and worrying was worth it. Especially, when the vehicles shine!!! then they bring them back home all dirty!!!
1)When using the foam pads that comes with the boxed products (not pads for the buffer maachines), how can you correctly use pressure so you do not use your fingers too much? I saw in a video or some wheres, if you use the foam pads you can actually see the finger pads on the other side from too much pressure. My main use of the foam pads is to apply the GoldClass Carnauba Plus (oh, and Nxt tech wax 2.0). I don't think I press too hard to even get my finger prints on the foam pad, but I want to make sure I don't. I have a hard enough time getting a thin layer-mainly with the carnauba wax.
2) The videos show using a pad to apply the 3 cleaners I have (swirlx, scratchx and ult. compound). I do not really do this. I have towels (I think terry?), and I put a dab of cleaner on the towel and work it using one or two fingers. Generally, the area I am dealing with on our vehicles are not very large. Even the bit larger ones, I do this. I also start with the less-abrasive one and work my way up, if needed.
So, is this not right? I've had success at removing most.
Must say, doing by hand is time-consuming. But, I really like doing it, and except for my hand and arm getting very tired, the results are really nice and makes me feel like all the work and worrying was worth it. Especially, when the vehicles shine!!! then they bring them back home all dirty!!!
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