Does ScratchX have fillers?

[V8Caprice]

Re: Does ScratchX have fillers?

Once you have successfully finished using the Scratch X apply your wax & you're ready to go.

Given that ScratchX contains lubricating oils, shouldn't they be washed away before waxing?

Greg.

[Hemin8r]

Re: Does ScratchX have fillers?

Once you have successfully finished using the Scratch X apply your wax & you're ready to go.

[funkdoktor]

Re: Does ScratchX have fillers?

thanks everybody i was just wondering.

[Mike Phillips]

Re: Does scratch x have fillers***

Just to expand on what Rick stated and to clarify because we’ve noticed that there’s a lot of confusion on other forums about the topic of fillers.

Some people confuse filling with lubricating, they forget that polishing paint is about creating beauty, in the case of a paint cleaner like ScratchX or Deep Crystal Paint Cleaner, these products are typically used to remove defects, (things that make the paint ugly), in an effort to restore a more perfect surface which results in beauty, that is clarity, gloss and shine.

You can’t just take some sand and rub it on a clear coat finish and remove a defect and leave behind a clear glossy surface, the sand will remove whatever the original defect was but will leave behind its own scratches.

The point is, removing defects out of clear coat paints is more complex than some people understand, it requires it’s own unique type of cleaning agents to carefully remove small particles of paint as that’s how you remove a below surface defect is you remove particles of paint surrounding a defect in an effort to level the upper most portion of the surface with the lowest depth of the defect you’re trying to remove without instilling additional scratches

Make sense?

As stated above you just can’t take some type of abrasive particles, (for sake of argument we used sand because most people can picture sand in their mind as a type of abrasive particles), and rub it onto a clear coat finish to remove a defect and at the same time leave a defect-free surface.

It’s not going to happen.

Assuming this is true and it is, then we can all agree that removing a defect out of a clear coat finish is more complex and at some level you need to lubricate the surface during the cleaning process so you can reach your goal and the goal is to remove the ugly and create beauty.

Now let me tie this together, ScratchX is a paint cleaner and it is designed to remove below surface defects within its limits when it’s used correctly. Just to note, I demonstrate this during all of our Saturday classes in front of anywhere from 20 to 40 people watching everything I do and then inspecting the results with a Swirl Finder Light and with the SoCal sunlight when we back the car out of the garage.

ScratchX is designed and formulated to remove below surface defects, a part of this complex process requires that the surface be lubricated while the cleaning agents are being rubbed against the paint, the ingredients that lubricate the surface can also act to mask or fill minor imperfections. This is not the purpose of these ingredients but rather a side-effect as there’s no way to abrade a surface and create beauty without also lubricating it at the same time, at least we’ve never seen anyone do this in our over 100 year history of creating show winning beautiful finishes.

So while the confused and uniformed can twist this to mean that ScratchX fills, the truth is, correctly used, ScratchX removes below surface defects and is but one step of a multi-step process of removing defects and working the paint towards a beautiful high gloss finish. Polishing and waxing would be the next steps to build on the results created by a paint cleaner.

Let it also be noted that one of the primary things we do here on this forum is invest a lot of time teaching people how to remove swirls and scratches out of clear coat paints. A part of this is educating people that compared to old fashioned single stage paints, modern clear coat paints tend to be much more difficult to work on and that’s usually related to how hard the paint is itself thus making it hard to remove small particles of it in an effort to remove defects and level or flatten out the surface.

Keep in mind, we don’t make the paint, (were not paint manufactures), and we don’t choose the paint to put on car bodies, (we’re not car manufactures), we do get the joy of helping frustrated and disgruntled enthusiasts as they try to work on the paint that comes on the car.

Working defects out of clear coat paints is going to be more than a mechanical process, it’s going to be a complex process that borders on being an art form because it requires the right products, the right tools, the right techniques and the one thing we can’t put into a bottle or can and that’s the human elements of care and passion, that is caring about what your doing in such a way as to focus on the task at hand with car guy’s passion to accomplish the goal, (paint polishing step), successfully.

Hope this clears up some of the confusion over the topic of fillers you find so common on other forums.


Now...

What are you working on?

[Andy M.]

Re: Does scratch x have fillers***

To my knowledge, scratchx does not contain any fillers.

Check out this thread:

How to remove a defect by hand with ScratchX

Andy
101impala

[Rick McDonough]

Re: Does scratch x have fillers***

Like Yalerd mentioned, Scratch-X does not contain anything to fill in a scratch (or below surface blemish), but instead will work to permanently remove fine below surface defects.

[yalerd]

Re: Does scratch x have fillers***

ScratchX uses diminishing abrasives that will safely remove fine scratches, swirls. When worked into the surface the abrasives diminish and that paint is polished to get some clarity.

It's not a product that will install nor cover/fill fine scratches

[funkdoktor]

Does ScratchX have fillers?

As mentioned above....

Aloha