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  1. This should be fun. I dont often use pressure washer because I dont want to get out gas unit. I normally wash in my garage and this will allow me to foam and wash with door closed so I should use it more. I think the foam looks cool but honestly people probably get carried away with the importance of it. I guess the point is, keep the vehicle soapy and wet for awhile. Another thing that intrigues me is possibly using more mitts or even microfiber towels and once they are spent never take them back to the bucket. Just keep pulling out a new one. Find out this weekend as I do a full wash. I guess the only question I have is, I wonder if there are pros to switching back to regular shampoo or the graphene is the way to go on graphene spray coated vehicle.
  2. Sounds like some sort of compounding is in order but how that is done is dependent on texture and how its assembled. A buffing bad is designed for smooth surfaces and is not going to hold up to rivets and seams very well. Might be a hand rubbing job which would be a horrendous task on a travel trailer but is not impossible. Do you have pictures? There are companys that sell gelcoat oxidation remover for boats, etc.
  3. Thanks Ray, Well I will be using the least most the time with graphene shampoo. I am not hung up on playing the foam game like some people do. I just would like to keep it on the car as long as possible
  4. Hey Chris, thanks for response. I did find a video that showed the orifice size was 1.1 mm. This video shows the hang time for the foam being much longer. For $6 you can buy two orifices and two foam maker pads. Seems it would be worth it??
  5. I just took delivery on a Premium foam cannon today. I was tired of dragging my gas pressure washer out and since I wash inside and in the winter I really cant run it anyway. So decided to buy an Adams pressure washer version 2.0. Its down on pressure considerably over the gas unit but I think it will be good enough for my coated vehicles. That said, it seems that Adams sizes the orifice for a variety of pressure washers. I have watched some online videos were they recommend changing out orifice for the smaller GPM units like the one I just bought. However, I have not found anyone mentioning what to buy. Does anyone have recommendations. I have read "I bought mine on Amazon" but have no idea what to get. Rich
  6. Well I know one thing. I am pretty sure if I ran this long I would destroy another backing plate.
  7. Yea my new backing plate fixed things. I really don't think I was abusing it with heat but apparently so. I think I would hesitate to loan this Rupes out because of that. Need to pay attention when using Microfiber. I might have to try wool. Any downside? I have always used wool on rotary but never DA.
  8. I haven't had the best of luck with the full coating but my experience was with the first generation. I will stick to spray coatings applied a couple times a year if needed. I understand what you are saying about the Denali as most of those are very detailed!! I don't anticipate it will take me 30 minutes to do this high country grill as its all horizontal sections.
  9. I am going to replace my grill this weekend with an OEM replacement. I have had one loose plastic section since I bought the truck and minimal road hash. I had no intention of replacing it but found one on Ebay for under $200. The question is... Any reason I should not do advanced spray coating on the grill? Just the horizontal chrome sections probably. The truck had a full paint correction about a week ago and the Advanced Graphene spray coating which might be my new Adams favorite product. Once the spray coating is applied I have no intention of doing anything to it in the future except possibly hand polish and re spray coat. Looking for reasons not to apply to a brand new grill. Rich
  10. This might have reared is ugly head now because in the past I have only used smooth and waffle foam pads. Does not appear there is much room for error when using microfiber so I am just going to have to keep that in mind. Unfortunately this was an expensive endeavor because once you lose the packing plate ($50) and the pads don't hold, you ruin pads too. So trying to get this thing finished at the 3 setting so I could coat it, destroyed 4 or 5 NEW pads possibly. Will know more once the new backing plate gets here.
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  12. So I have a Rupes LHR Mark II. Last weekend I did a full paint correction using some new Rupes microfiber pads. I think this is the 4th vehicle I have buffed with the exception of some spot work with bird etchings. About 1/2 way through the pads were starting to slip off center and would not hold. I could see some smearing on the velcro print on the back of the pad and they were warm. At times I had the speed up to 4 and 5. I really did not make long runs with about 90 seconds being the longest pass I would guess. I am thinking I overheated the pads and toasted the backing plate. I have a new backing plate on order and will see how that goes. I have tried to research the subject and only thing I found was Dylan talking about the Mark II having more power than the first generation and to slow things down. So it appears to me, with microfiber pads I need to keep the speed to 3 or less and clean with air to cool between passes. Anyone with similar experiences? A backing plate is almost $50 with shipping so I cant afford to be replacing backing plates. Thoughts?
  13. I cant say I have used the new "surface prep". Just the stuff sent with a coating kit a couple years ago. Maybe its the same. In my case after a paint correction it needed a serious wash to get stray compound removed from the nooks and crannies and all the trim scrubbed with tire and rubber cleaner. I just dont think surface prep in that quantity would not have got it done. I dont know if the graphene shampoo was a good choice or not but I figured since it has de-greaser it couldnt hurt. But I wanted some lubricity in the wash bucket so that is why shampoo. Then I followed up with multiple IPA wipe downs. So really, I just wanted a really good cleaning everywhere before the spray coating.
  14. Chris I thought APC has always been a recommended method of strip cleaning a vehicle. Pretty sure back in the day I have seen Adam dump it in the wash bucket directly. Its common practice for me to spray it 100% directly on a panel and wash with a shampoo mitt. I rinse right away so it never drives but its a go to for me.
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