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Corners

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About Corners

  • Birthday 11/08/1943

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  • Bio
    Old, gray hair, wrinkled, love driving and riding fast and shiny things.
  • Location
    Oregon
  • Interests
    Motorcycles, Diesel pick-ups, racing, detailing
  • Occupation
    Disabled Veteran
  • Vehicle Year
    2012
  • Vehicle Make
    Dodge
  • Vehicle Model
    2500 Diesel High Output
  • Real Name
    Bill
  1. Really glad you got them. BTW, what method did you use. Drill or Revive? I ask because my wife gets her nails fixed up by some woman's "barber shop." Fake, glued on nails and it's driving me nuts trying to figure out how to get these scratches out. You're lucky if that's the correct word, for only having a few. The drivers door on the black Mercedes looks like a cat hates door handles.
  2. What part of the application process is it that you don't like?
  3. Yo Dan. I was waiting for ya to send a post. Yea, it's that new sub-division about 30+ miles North of town. They sure cleaned things up in there. Moved all the old buildings into one group.
  4. Hey Chase. Ya notice I already "De-Badged" both of them.
  5. My Cousin Billy Bob is really great when it comes to doing body work.
  6. Oh I should have 'er done in about a week. Have just a couple of pieces I have to weld together. Then if ya look close you will see some pretty deep scratches I will have to wet sand. Also need to shorten the shifting and emergency brake levers about one foot and then send 'um out to be chromed.
  7. Nice quess. What you see hanging in the photo is the way "things" were done. Kind of hard to make out what it is, but it's an "original" corn cob. The Sears "catalog" hadn't come out back then.
  8. Vacation cut short due to 4 pages of defective "junk" on a brand new 28' Travel Trailer. However, in the proces of this short trip, I bought a new business in a nice community. A small grocery store, living quarters in the back. Only draw back is the new bathroom isn't ready yet. So in the meantime we are using the older one. Really neat thing is I found "two" really nice Daily Drivers. Lots of Adam's products and they will be looking fine.
  9. I learned this from my Uncle who was in the Army during the Korean war. It does work. I too did the same thing while going through Boot Camp. We didn't have any ice in the barracks but would use the coldest water we could get from a faucet. $5.00 to shine a pair of boots X's 13 weeks gave me a lot of money before we graduated. This may sound crazy but when I was riding my Harley and was preparing to be in a parade or some formal gathering, I had a special pair of danner boots just for this reason. I would take the Kiwi "Parade Polish," lay a piece of newspaper on the floor and lean back against my recliner. I'd then take the lid off the polish, put one half of an ice cube with water into the lid. Taking a very soft and old tee-shirt, wrapping that around two fingers, I would just barely get the tee-shirt wet. Prior to this I would put about three coats of polish all over the boots, letting each coat dry and then buff it off. This gave me my "base coat." I would then get just enough of the polish on the wet, cold t/shirt and start going in circles on the toe areas. Once I got a shine that I actually could see my face on it ~ a little blurry though ~ then I would finish doing the entire boot. I would even take the boot laces out and spit shine the tongues. With the leather chaps and vest I would use leather cleaner. Lay them out and put three coats of the Kiwi polish on them, again waiting for each layer to dry. I would then rub the leather with ice cubes, put one more layer on, ice cubes again and then buff with a soft brush. The ice would make the polish "set up." Some of the older Harley riders wouldn't speak to me and if they did, they made it very clear that I didn't deserve to be riding a Harley. Even today when I know I will be wearing a pair of dress shoes, slacks, etc, I always spit shine both black and brown shoes. My Dad told me a very very long time ago that you could tell a good man by the way his shoes looked ~ "Debatable to say the least." Finally, I saved this article for my best friend who I use to ride with. Going to try this method on his Harley this winter. Far far less sections to do.
  10. No, you're not a minority when it comes to QS. I won't say I dislike it because I ordered so many cans of it when it first came out. I like it in respect to using it on chrome and the wheels. I also like it when it's first applied and wiped off because it really puts out a great shine. However, I have been paying close attention to it after I first apply Glaze or the BW over it. It seems to "dull" the original shine if that makes any sense. The MSS, after applying products over it, seems to shine a lot better. I go through an awful lot of the QS on the front bumper and surrounding grill areas especially this time of year, due to the bugs. Applying it to the wheels makes it a lot easier to clean them. However, as I said above, the original shine I get when first apply it is great until I then add other products over it. Also agree with you are talking about the application. With this product being so thin and slick, it takes me longer to apply it. The area's I use it on, I only do smaller sections at one time so I don't end up over applying it. As far as protection and length of use, I prefer the MSS except for chrome areas.
  11. That's quite awhile for QS to last. Additionaly the beading is fantastic. At last count ~ before I had to stop ~ I counted 985 beads. It's pretty obvious that QS is superior to MSS. The "red" car doesn't have any beads on it at all.
  12. If you've already laid down products from a previous detail and just want to bring back a little shine, use the Glaze. QS normally goes on first, followed by Glaze.
  13. Len: If that's what he's talking about, this is just my .02 but do think that it will take an awful lot of air to get the water moving fast enough to thoroughly reach every towel, depending on how many towels are in the bucket. Even with just a few towels, as I originally posted, I still take a simple paint stirring stick and swirl them around for a minute or so. When I have a bunch soaking, I will even move the ones from the top, to the bottom. Haven't tried it yet but with all the APC I put in the soaking bucket, perhaps I wouldn't have to stir them period. The main point is to simply ensure that "all" of them soaking good enough to get the real dirty stains out.
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