<HTML>It is finished with a polyurethane finish, the same basic chemistry as the car's clear coat. Don't use "oil based" products such as "Pledge", use your normal polish or wax. The oils in products like "Pledge" will attack and start to break down the resin system of the finish. Grumpy</HTML>by Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>Thanks! In our Prep Excellence training course, the first hour contains a lot of ISO type of explaination, just turned to the detailing/new vehicle prep industry. After all, to succeed today, one must understand that there are big changes taking place, in the way the customer thinks and the way that the technican must change their way of thinking, doing things. This is a "procby Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>Sorry, I did not, but we have some in-house computer issues the past week and some people on vacation, so who knows what the hell is going on. I have a manager of one of our shops, his first name is Ron and often calls to me that do not directed at Ron Ketcham or Ketch end up to him and vis versa. And that gets confusing. I leave in the morning for a week and a half driving trip upby Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>Brian, really amazed that today we were not deluged with requests for the free sample of the pad. No hidden shipping/handling, just a straight up offer, go figure. After all, something for free is what many say they want and here it is, no strings attached. See you later this week, with luck. Ketch</HTML>by Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>Hard to say, as asked earlier, what surface, how long on, how big of deposit, etc. First of all, is it old or new formula "nail polish", since older ones used acetone as their solvent system, which will "bite into" or "melt almost any plastic or polymeric type of coating. Ketch</HTML>by Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>Correct, the products produced by a company are NOT ISO certified, but rather the required processes of raw materials, compounding of the components of the raw materials, the way that the paper work is handled, the way that each step from buying components, mixing/compounding them, boxes, quality checks in each step, etc, etc is what ISO is about. It insures that each step from the sby Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>Have to ask, not trying to create an argument, but leather is like your skin. Especially uncoated leather, remove the coating with a strong solvent like MEK in lacquer thinner, and it does, you expose the leather to chemicals. If you use lacquer thinner and it does end up on your hands, ever notice how your hands turn to a "white look"? That is because the main ingrediantby Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>To me, it appears that some are taking this whole thing to far, too much work, but yet think they are saving labor. In our shops, 15,000 vehicles last year, we use a big old, medium closed cell sponge and wipe it on the tires. The dressing in applied to the sponge with a dispensor bottle, 12 0z and wiped on the tire before buffing and after final wipe down of the vehicle, another wiby Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>Glazes are fillers and short term shine. Waxes/Sealants are applied to provide longer term shine and protection from enviormental contaminates and UV rays. These provide some protection from these damaging elements, vs a glaze which is very short term and "hides imperfections" for that short term. Ketch</HTML>by Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>If those $40,000 vehicles are leased, you might wish to explain to them that due to the falling residual value of leased vehicles, the condition in which it is returned can negatively affect greatly the value. The returning leasee can be charged anywhere from a couple of hundred up to thousands back on the lease. In some cases this opens their eyes to the care of the vehicle they arby Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>If the leather on the back is white and the fibers a light grey or whitish, they are not done with the very important "tannic" process and will be almost as dry as a synthetic. Other than that, I see nothing wrong with pelts that come from China. I know the Korean's and Chinese do use a "chemical" tanning process for a lot of their leather that is not the taby Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>I would recommend that you add them to your product offering. Some things that need to be understood though. Since they are natural hides and the manufacturer of them must use up all the hide, there are variances in the quality of what comes out of the box of pads. "Belly pads" are the ones that come from the belly area of the sheep and have less fibers and are usually aby Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>Scotty, have you tried them with the new Cerious Compound/Polish? Works really easy to remove those nasty carwash marks, light scratches, etc and then it only requires the use of a fine foam pad and polish for the dark colors. This is that "experimental product" you saw last year, the one we developed for the "nano's". On light colors, many detailers are teby Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>The "self cleaning" paint thing is the result of some professors getting a large grant to explore new techology, develope it in a lab so the Germans can continue to be the leaders in developing new paint systems and resin systems for the paints. The Volvo thing is a "concept" used to draw interest to their vehicle products. Even if it would actually work, do youby Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>Not really sure, unless some new high tech gel coat has been developed in the past two years, doubt it. Gives them some thing to "sizzle market", and will only serve to confuse the owner of the boat and require detailers to educate the customer regarding reality. Even then, as those of us who have been around the business of detailing for years are aware, car sales peopleby Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>New price list was released earlier this year. The catalog is very outdated and we are in the process of working with our ad agency to produce a new catalog to be released later this year. One of the hold up's is that we are going to all new labeling and bottles, sizes, etc. The new look will be more like our PF, the bodyshop line and black bottles. The pad I am referring toby Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>Years ago, Floyd and I did some serious testing, which I and my Tech Director have continued over the past 8 years as "new and improved" synthetic "sheeps wool" or "lambs wool" polishing pads are brought to market. What we have found that the original concerns are still present. One being the amount of heat the synthentics create in the buffing process,by Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>When testing is done by vehicle manufacturers, it is their property, they paid for the test and there for the chemical supplier is not normally allowed to use the actual test results for public release. We may devulge the name of the vehicle manufacturer, we may devulge the test lab, but the results are not our property. We have shared, with agreements of confidentuality, on occassiby Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>Was a big "thing" about 4 years ago. Doesn't work, and if you read the fine print about how the plant does it, it is basically a "self produced" wax, emitted by the plant. I will let your logic now take over and figure out how an organic paint system is going to continually emit a wax over the life of a vehicle. Ketch</HTML>by Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>For the past 3 years, in our shops, we have been using a special pad. It looks like something that 3M makes, but is not from them, nor is is produced by them. In use for 3 years, used by a couple hundred-come and go-employees, on somewhere in the area of 45,000 vehicles, not one "scratching/marring" complaint. There is the necessity of "following the directions"by Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>CG, you got it right! It is a micro fiber based material. And any one who has taken some time to understand this type of fabric knows that one does not treat it like wool, cotton, silk, rayon, nylon, etc. What most don't realize is that micro fiber technology has been around since the late 70's. Ask any old fart like me if we didn't flip out over " ultra suede&by Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>Like us, Bud buys in bulk and resells pads. This pad seems to have run out it "marketing" hoopla and and haven't heard much about it, posistive or other wise for the last year or so. I believe, if my old and feeble mind does not fail me, that it is produced by Lake Country. Just so there is no "intent" to be unfair, we have our pads made by Buff and Shine,by Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>In order to meet Prop 65 is rather simple, just no carcenigenic components, toxins are another matter, let alone "ground water contaminates". One should try to meet the Federal Requirements for professional products, and then go for meeting the vehicle manufacturers requirements. Once a chemical manufacturer goes to that level, most of the components used in many all purpoby Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>Since I was, oh, about 6 years old and around bodyshops, we knew that a "yarn" wool pad was a cutting pad and a "lambs wool" or as I think you are referring to as a "sheeps wool" pad were not "yarn-twisted wool" pad. Big difference, and for some time, you have been attempting to recreate the years of defininition of the two. A real "lambsby Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts
<HTML>In my over 40 years of being in the business, as a detailer, a bodyshop technican, a painter, a salesman, formulating many car care products, producing them, etc, here is what I know. The resin system's may vary, some use a polydimethalsiloxane for the base resin system, some use a polyaminosiloxane resins system and other combine the two to produce the anti-corrossive and proteby Grumpy - Auto Detailing: Secrets of the Experts