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SiegeX

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  1. It was 100% my fault for spilling, but never did I think something I put on my clear would permanently stain in such short time. I don't have a problem with a product having staining characteristics, what I don't approve of is having said characteristic for aesthetic reasons only.
  2. Although the decision to keep it pink was a year old, so was Adam's reply that there would be a DS with less/different dye that will not stain, so...did this ever come out? The DS I have now will, and has, permanently stained my painted garage floor from over-splash during a refill. If a formulation can be made that totally eliminates staining whilst maintaining the pink hue, then I'm all for it. However, if the new formulation still stains in the slightest, then I vote for clear spray in a pink bottle to maintain Adam's brand image. I find it quite odd how far people will go to prevent swirling and marring their paint but are perfectly amenable to an attribute of a product that adds no functional value yet has been proven to stain paint under certain conditions; so much so that polishing was necessary to remove it.
  3. I took a look at that thread and I only see the conclusion that changing pads with a given polish can affect the amount of cut; that we already know. What I am proposing is to get empirical evidence as to just *how much* a pad can affect a given polish with the same amount of buffing time. Ultimately, the difference is going to be subjective but it would be interesting to see the magnitude of the changes as you move through the following ladder: Yellow + SHR Orange + SHR White + SHR Black + SHR Yellow + FMP Orange + FMP White + FMP Black + FMP We know for sure that #1 is the most aggressive and #8 is the least aggressive but how the others line up would be interesting to see. For example, is #5 more aggressive than #4? Also where would a Yellow + Wax fall? They are one and the same. A pad with larger cells will be less dense than ones with smaller cells. A pad with larger cells (reducing its density) will absorb more of the polish thereby lessening the amount of micro abrasives available to mar the paint.
  4. I would have to respectfuly disagree and contend that your conclusion does not logically follow from my earlier statement due to the fact that SHR contains micro abrasives wheras the wax does not. The agressiveness of the pad determines how much of the force applied to the PC actually gets transfered to the micro abrasives in the polish. This is why the more agressive pads are so dense, as the pad doesn't give as much and really forces those micro abrasives into the paint. Let me be clear that I'm not trying to say the net affect is zero, I just strongly doubt it will be noticible; certainly no where close to doing damage to the paint. It's akin to your "can I damage my car with a PC video." The accepted answer is no but given enough time and determination you could conceivably do damage. Same is true here, however, all bets are off with a dry pad. Now that I think of it, this would make a good video series for you. If you can find another car that had Spiderman and Wolverine duke it out on the paint, you can show just how much of a difference the pad+polish paring makes. As a bonus you can try my theory with yellow pad+wax. You should probably test the wax first so as not to contaminate it with abrasives. A new pad would be ideal but I've seen how well you clean em so that's fine too.
  5. If somebody actually made this mistake and did this, I doubt it would do much of anything since the buttery wax has no cutting power at all. Even though the yellow pad is "aggressive", it's really the micro abrasives in the polish/compound that do the hard work. Still and all, maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to make the buttery wax black, although that doesn't look very buttery now does it
  6. Hah, crap. I saw Adam's post say 2/10 and I assumed it was a few weeks ago. Maybe now that he is in CO this compound might be a reality?
  7. I'm really looking forward to this new Adam's compound. My wife's '98 mustang is beyond what SHR can do for it. Some Adams compound with those new spot remover pads aught to clean some of these scratches up nicely without having to resort to wet sanding.
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