Open Detail training at Rasky's Auto Detailing June 21st, 2008 56K NO WAY!

[Hemin8r]

Re: Open Detail training at Rasky's Auto Detailing June 21st, 2008 56K NO WAY!

Looks like you guys had a blast! Seems you were pretty thorough with teaching everyone there pretty much everything they need to know to get started on their own cars. Great job.

[RaskyR1]

Re: Open Detail training at Rasky's Auto Detailing June 21st, 2008 56K NO WAY!

Another thing to note about the meet.

One of the members had brought some of his supplies. In his bag was some of the Turtle Wax Liquid Clay. Now this car had not been washed in a very long time and the paint felt like 400 grit sand paper. Prior to buffing I calyed half the hood with Meguiars Aggressive clay and he used the Liquid clay on the other side. Meguiars easily removed all above surface defects on my side and felt very smooth. The Turtle Wax side still had a rough feel but it actually removed some of the oxidized paint and the towel was black after he wiped of the excess.

So it seems to be that the Turtle Wax Liquid Clay Bar is more of a cleaner polish than a true clay. I'll see if I can find the side by side pic of the hood. I don't think I loaded it up yet and it's on my home PC.

[RaskyR1]

Re: Open Detail training at Rasky's Auto Detailing June 21st, 2008 56K NO WAY!

Thanks for sharing the photos!

Wish I could have made it but with gas prices and everything else going on I just couldn't do it. Now if we get a Meguiar's class over there I'll be there for sure. Hint Hint!

One thing I noticed is all the bare wall shots, you need a Meguiar's banner.

LOL! Working on it. I think after this weekend there will be a LOT of people buying G110's and maybe if I refer enough business Rick will give me one.

[RaskyR1]

Re: Open Detail training at Rasky's Auto Detailing June 21st, 2008 56K NO WAY!

Thanks Mike!

It would really be nice to see Meguiars come up here and host a road show too. I have a few larger facilites that can be used to host such an event if Meguiars chooses to do so.

Squeak squeak!


Rasky

[BlueZero]

Re: Open Detail training at Rasky's Auto Detailing June 21st, 2008 56K NO WAY!

Thanks for sharing the photos!

Wish I could have made it but with gas prices and everything else going on I just couldn't do it. Now if we get a Meguiar's class over there I'll be there for sure. Hint Hint!

One thing I noticed is all the bare wall shots, you need a Meguiar's banner.

[Mike Phillips]

Re: Open Detail training at Rasky's Auto Detailing June 21st, 2008 56K NO WAY!

Nice job!

Pretty cool you opened your doors and coordinated this class.




This is a really good example of the philosophy we promote on this forum...

"Each one teach one"


We all have to start somewhere but it helps to have someone whose been there and done that to help decrease the learning curve by sharing what they know.

Thanks for sharing the results from your class...

[RaskyR1]

Re: Open Detail training at Rasky's Auto Detailing June 21st, 2008 56K NO WAY!

LOL...

The BBQ was also a great hit, though I haven't seen any pics of that yet. I managed to get a chicken leg which I ate while showing my girl how to use the PC. I had no idea Bill as taking pics at that time!

[RaskyR1]

Re: Open Detail training at Rasky's Auto Detailing June 21st, 2008 56K NO WAY!

Thanks guys!

I have hundreds of pics but only posted a few. I'll go thru and see if there are any other I like. A memeber of the forum had his high end DSLR camera and he even rented a $1200 lens just for the occasion. I think you can tell which pics were his and which were from my camera. I was a little disapointed some people didn't show but the Back to the 50's car show was going on at the same time and with 11,000 plus cars I can't blame people for skipping out.

Rasky

[J. A. Michaels]

Re: Open Detail training at Rasky's Auto Detailing June 21st, 2008 56K NO WAY!

That was a great idea you had. "Each one teach one" at its best. Great idea, andglad it was a success.

[yalerd]

Re: Open Detail training at Rasky's Auto Detailing June 21st, 2008 56K NO WAY!

Very nice job helping out others and teaching

[Deaner5]

Re: Open Detail training at Rasky's Auto Detailing June 21st, 2008 56K NO WAY!

I remember you talking about this event and I was meaning to PM you about getting an invite (I'm in the Southeast metro and have never used a polisher), but I never did. Glad to see the event went well and it looks like you learned a few things about a few products.

Now if we could only get a Meguiar's class in the midwest........

[RaskyR1]

Re: Open Detail training at Rasky's Auto Detailing June 21st, 2008 56K NO WAY!

I was using my old worn pads so that could be why. I stated to use about 15lbs pressure and it was not enough pressure to stop the PC from rotating which is what I use as a measure of when your pressing too hard. I had a mark on the back of the backing plate so they could see when it was spinning.

Pad in this pic is compressed in the same manner yet my pad was always rotating durring the demo's...

[ZoranC]

Re: Open Detail training at Rasky's Auto Detailing June 21st, 2008 56K NO WAY!

In this picture too.

[ZoranC]

Re: Open Detail training at Rasky's Auto Detailing June 21st, 2008 56K NO WAY!

Amount of compression of the pads I perceive from these pictures indicates too much pressure is being used with Flex.

[Tom Weed]

Re: Open Detail training at Rasky's Auto Detailing June 21st, 2008 56K NO WAY!

Hey Rasky,
great event and write up you did!