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That would be awesome Cameron! I've enjoyed speaking with you the few times I've helped you out!

Feeling the Winter Time Blues??? Get excited for the 8th Annual Grabiak Detail Clinic on Saturday May 21st from 9am - 2pm! We moved the event to May this year instead of April for a chance at better weather since we had some snow last year! This is a MUST ATTEND event if you're anywhere near the Pittsburgh area - it keeps getting bigger and better every year. Adam and I will both be in attendance, and we might have a few more members of the team there too! In addition to the Adam's Detail Clinic, there will be several other activities, including prizes, giveaways, and one day only show specials. Please see the flyer below for the official announcement and RSVP to this thread if you will be attending so that we can get an accurate count for lunch supplies! Follow this thread for more details as they are announced! Thanks and we look forward to seeing you. Here are a few shots from last year, where we demonstrated on a C6 Corvette!

Thank you for that post Steve! I was typing up all of that information just now with links, but I see you beat me to it Welcome back Bill. In regards to the new blue Car Shampoo, it was reformulated about a year and a half ago to be higher concentration, more suds, and more slick. We updated the color to blue to match the rest of our blue washing products, and we changed the scent to a wild berry scent instead of cherry, since Super VRT has a very similar cherry scent. If you have any questions about any new or updated products since your last visit, please let us know and we'll gladly help out!

Chris is right on the money with his suggestions there! Since it is a single stage paint, don't be alarmed when your orange foam pad starts to turn white, as some paint transfer onto the pad is normal with single stage paint. You just need to remember to keep the polisher moving and not generate too much heat in any one area

Oh, I didn't fly out for this one. I was working on other work-related projects for most of the weekend

Hey Everyone, Adam, Matt, Ben, and Joe attended Corvettes and Coffee this past weekend at Purifoy Chevrolet. Topics that were demonstrated included Two Bucket Wash, H2O Guard & Gloss application, drying with the Air Force Blaster B3-CD, and paint correction with the Cyclo polisher! Joe and our friend Alex got some great photos and video of the event. Here are a few of Alex's snaps, and then Joe or I will get his content posted soon too. Enjoy Thanks for looking!

Very nice rides, love the color on that truck!

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Don't worry, my detached garage looks like a war zone of parts, boxes, lawn equipment, junk, etc. I try to keep the attached garage strictly for detailing work. One of these months I'll start organizing the mess in the detached

I will add that I've only had these installed for a few months now, so I cannot comment on reliability with long-term use. So far so good though!

Thanks! Yeah the bulkhead is certainly annoying, but that is where the HVAC ducting and other wiring runs for the bedrooms upstairs. I plan to mount the 3 pull-chain LEDs there to help with the light that gets blocked I could always get 2 more of them to have 20 feet of light going down the middle of the garage I really wish I could remove the center pole, but it's unfortunately load-bearing...boo. Any votes on what color to paint the ugly pole?

Goo Gone or Adam's APC with a Clay Bar is what I use. I will also warm up the area first with a hair dryer, just don't get the paint too hot as you don't want to burn it. C7 clear coat seems more soft to me than the hard clear coats of C5 and C6 Corvettes. I also agree on the comment that plastic razor blades can still scuff up soft clear coat. I use them when removing all of the rally decals from my vehicles and always end up machine polishing those areas afterwards.

I do believe the canister volume is larger but I will have to double-check on that. We are also moving to a slightly different, more rugged spray handle design, that you can see pictured on the website, but I am not sure how soon those will be included in the kits. And in case anyone doesn't know, we now only ship the foam gun with 2 of the yellow-green metering tips and 2 of the purple metering tips rather than all of those extra colors. We found that the yellow-green tip is sufficient for almost every application. The purple metering tips will have a higher flow rate, but they will also use up the canister much more quickly!

A few months back I decided to do a serious overhaul of the lighting in my garage. My whole house is energy star certified, and I try to keep it as efficient as possible in regards to utility costs, so I decided to spend a little extra and go with all LED lighting instead of the T5HO setup that I had originally planned on going with. To start, I picked up all of these at Lowe's. My plan was that the four 4-foot strip lights would go in place of the current 4 CFL bulbs I had in the garage ceiling, and then the smaller, 24" under cabinet strip lights would be mounted onto the side walls. The 4-foot fixtures are 40w and 3600 lumens each with a color temperature listed at 4000k but they seem a little closer to 4500 or 5000 to my eyes. The 2-foot fixtures were magnitudes brighter than every other LED cabinet fixture they had in the store. They are 18w and 1400 lumens each, same 4000k color scale. Ok, enough with the geeky tech specs, onto the pictures! The 4-foot fixtures are hard-wired, and the 2-foot fixtures are plug-in; however both types are linkable using included link cables. I really liked the link cables for the 2-foot fixtures, as this meant I only needed to use one outlet to power 3 lights per wall. The 3000 lumen, 40w spot light is awesome as well and great for paint correction, as it doesn't radiate a ton of heat onto the paint like my old dual 500w halogen setup. Three of the 2-foot lights installed onto the wall, powered on with the brightest setting: And with the lights off, they blend into the wall nicely, barely noticeable: Before, excuse the messy garage, I was rearranging a bunch of things in the detached garage: After: Next up was installing the 4-foot overhead fixtures, first fixture in place: Huge difference from the CFL on the GTO side of the garage: And with the wall LED's on to show how bright the garage was starting to get: Then I put the second overhead light up on the same side as the first light: A shot of one side of the garage now fully lit up with the ceiling and wall-mounted LEDs: Comparison of the LED side of the garage compared to the dim CFLs: Then I had to move big bad blue out into the driveway...can't have any drywall dust falling on the goat...love this car and I don't post nearly enough pictures of it on here: Both LEDs now above the GTO: Then I picked up 3 of these 4-foot plug-in, linkable chain mount LED's from Home Depot - great price, same 4000k color temperature, 36w and 3200 lumens each, slightly less wattage and lumen output than the Utilitech lights on the ceiling. I purchased some 5-foot link cables for these, and I still need to mount them to the ceiling in the middle of the two garage bays to have more light down the center of the garage. I'm going to plug them into the extra outlets in the ceiling for each garage door opener and then use them with a wifi WeMo setup so that I have a wireless light switch to turn them on and off. This way I won't have to use the pull-chains all of time and worry about drywall anchors pulling out of the ceiling. Yes, the lumen output on all of these lights are lower than T5HO lights, but the nice thing with LED is that all of the lumen output is going outward from the casing - none of the light shines back up into the housing like a fluorescent tube, so these do appear brighter to me than their output rating. I still plan on purchasing 2 more of the 4-foot ceiling fixtures and linking them directly to the 2 fixtures above the hood area of each car. This will give an uninterrupted 8-foot light to cover the hood and roof area, then the second 4-foot light shines on the trunk/bed area. New setup = 416w total with all lights on (not counting the portable work light...that stays in the car with the cigarette lighter plug) Old setup = 1,104w total with the 4 CFL's and halogen work light. Even after I add 2 more of the 40w 4-foot LED's to the ceiling, that's less than half of the total energy cost of my terribly dim old setup. If I stay in this house long enough, they will pay for themselves, and the garage looks 10 times better now in my opinion! I'll update this or make a new thread once I have the remainder of the lights installed. Let me know if you have any questions Edit: My only complaint, and it's a minor one, is that the 2-foot LEDs mounted to the walls do have a very slight buzzing to them when they're on at the full bright setting. This isn't a big problem though since I usually either have a polisher making noise or music playing when I'm in the garage. I hope to have a TV mounted to the front wall above the work bench soon to use as a computer monitor. I plan to have a computer setup in there to scroll through pictures of cars I've worked on, or to display a big checklist of what still needs to be done when I'm detailing a car.

I recently overhauled all of my garage lighting back in September. I had 4 not-bright CFL's in the ceiling of a 24'x24' garage and a dual 500w floodlight on a stand that I would use for detailing, as well as the natural light that comes in from 2 windows. I now have four linkable 4-foot surface mount LED fixtures, 4000k color temperature, on the ceiling, with 3 more linkable chain mount LED fixtures that I'm going to suspend in the middle between both vehicle bays. I also have six 18" LED under-cabinet fixtures mounted onto my side walls, 3 per wall, and a 40W LED spotlight. They have completely transformed the garage and make things much easier for me while paint correcting. Lumen output on all of them is great! I will post some pictures with product names and specs tomorrow...falling asleep right now. Haha.

It still looks great though! That is one big, sweet car

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Best way to shake an Adam's gallon? Turn big and green and use Hulk muscles!

I think the Rupes 15 would also work fine in most of those areas with the 6" pads. A little bit of pad overhang behind the T-tops would be ok as long as it's not polishing up against any weather stripping (which you could tape off if necessary) and any super tight areas could at least be partially addressed by hand with an Orange Hex Grip Applicator with Paint Correcting Polish, and then a Blue Hex Grip Applicator with Revive Hand Polish, if you really wanted the Bigfoot 15 and didn't want to spend the money on a second machine. The Cyclo rocks too though, and I use mine a lot! It's such a comfortable machine to use and I do get outstanding results with it. You can't go wrong with either option in my opinion

Wow a curtain is a great idea. Why didn't I think of that? Lol. Always learning from the master!

I would agree with Jason that doing a Rinseless Wash is a great option for you, as long as the vehicle isn't super dirty with tons of dirt, mud, salt etc. Kinda slipped my mind to mention it in my first post since I got caught up on using a hose in the garage. This video is a little bit old, but Dylan essentially shows a version of the GDWM here: I follow this method when doing Rinseless Washes, with a slight change that I will sometimes dry with a Great White Microfiber Drying Towel rather than a dry Double Soft Towel.

That would be my recommendation too James. When I'm away from home at a show for a few days, I will take one or two 5 gallon buckets with all of my washing supplies in them, and take those with me to a touchless coin-op car wash. I will go during a time of the day where there hopefully won't be too many other people there, pull into an unused bay, and then start cleaning my vehicle using the Two Bucket Method, but using only water pressure from the hose at the car wash - none of their soaps or waxes. In my buckets I will have 2 Adam's Wash Pads, grit guards, a 16oz bottle of Car Shampoo, a 16oz bottle of APC, a 16oz bottle of Deep Wheel Cleaner, a blue Deep Clean Tire Scrub Brush, and a red Short Handle Wheel Brush. If the tires or wheels aren't too dirty, I will skip using the APC and DWC and just clean them with Car Shampoo. Once it's clean, I'll pull out of the stall for the next person and park near the side of the building, using the shade from the building if possible, and dry the car with a Great White Drying Towel, lightly misting Detail Spray onto each panel as I dry. If there is no room to dry there, I will drive back to the hotel/show/parking lot/etc and do a Waterless Wash to dry the rest of the vehicle. I have a water faucet inside of my garage that I've used once or twice, but you will want to make sure there is adequate, working drainage and avoid spraying water onto the walls or you could get mold and mildew buildup. I only have about 3 feet of clearance between the vehicle and side wall of my garage, and I have LED strip lights mounted to the side wall for detailing, so this is why I don't do this wash option very much. If you do want to wash inside the garage with a hose, I would definitely suggest applying some type of waterproof paint to the drywall/concrete walls.

Super impressive turnaround there! I'm eager to see the rest of the pictures when it's all finished up