Junkman2008

Some folks have been calling for it so I'm going to let the cat out of the bag. If you have a need to shut down an artery, then this artery clogger is for you. Here's how to create one of these beast. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees. You start out with a Digiorno, 4 meat pizza. As you can see from the picture below, it is not anything to get happy about in its virgin state. Although I have never had a frozen pizza that taste as good as the Digiorno brand, it still needs some help out of the box. I like to spice up my food so crushed red peppers are a staple addition to anything I eat, especially pizza. Sprinkle some of these puppies on your pizza to give it that hell fire and brimstone kick. The next thing you need to do is fix that sorry excuse for pepperoni. There's like 7 of them on there. You'll be lucky to taste one unless you start at the right part of the pizza. With the Junkman's mod, you'll hit pepperoni no matter where you start. Here's the upgrade: Now we need to add some Canadian bacon. The meat on the pizza is so small, I can't tell what anything is. Thus, I add meat that you can see. Now time for some sausage. You can't just use any brand of sausage because a lot of them are too greasy. The Bob Evans brand however does not soak your pizza down with grease. It is a more "healthy" sausage, if you will. I cut each sausage up into six pieces. Four of them will fill up the pizza like so (24 chunks). Last of all, you top it off with some Mozzarella cheese... ...and stick that puppy in the oven for 20-25 minutes. This should be your final product: Top it off with your favorite beverage, hog it down and wait for the heartburn. I don't do one of these every day because they make my butt look big. But after a day of rubbin' your baby down, you should reward yourself. Anyway, Adam's polishes smell good and make me hungry! The Junkman

Pansy. I'm detailing my car when my neighbors come in from work and I wave at them as they leave the next morning! ...but then you have a life.

I'm so glad that you've explained this. So many people use clay for the wrong reason. Claying is only necessary when you can actually feel contaminants in the paint. If you car is garaged all the time, you will not clay no where near as often as guys who park outside all the time. Mine stays garaged and I keep it really clean. Thus, I have only clayed it once in a year. Claying is a lot of freakin' work. I ain't looking forward to doing it again anytime soon!

Thing is, who needs self healing when you properly wash and maintain the paint in the first place? I cherish the time I spend rubbing my baby down. I wouldn't give that time up for the hardest clear coat in the world. Plus, I get to meet you guys!

Junkman, reporting as ordered sir! Hold your horses there Jub Jub! You don't even want to get next to your car with some 2000 grit sandpaper unless you know what you're doing. My first time making that mistake cost me $1900. I could have used that money on something else! Wet sanding is something that you learn to do on a junk piece of car. I tell people to go get a fender or hood from a junk yard to learn on. Get something that you can lay flat across a horse so that you can work comfortably and get a lot of light on it. Your wet sanding papers will run anywhere from 1000 grit to 3000 grit. Most professionals will tell you that 3000 grit is like staring at the scratch! I feel a lot differently and in the videos that I did, you will see the results of what 3000 grit sandpaper can do. Before I found out about Adam's products, I made a series of videos detailing the process of wet sanding. You can watch them and see the process as I do it. You must pay strict attention to the information that I give in the first video as I cover a lot of rules. Also, I would never recommend that any novice or professional try and do this without a paint thickness gauge unless you have the funds on standby to repaint the area of the car when you mess up. Before I did that video, I had about 6 months of constant practice under my belt so I had learned a bunch by then. Here are the videos. Feel free to hit this thread back up with any questions you have. Be sure and click the high quality link in order to see the detail of the work I'm doing. Wet Sanding, Part 1 Wet Sanding, Part 2 Wet Sanding, The Conclusion A.J.

Good Lord, this cat could hear a gnat fart on the 101st floor of the Beverly Hills Hilton from a underground bunker in Indiana! I'd love to have a unique fur ball like that! ...and how you could ever walk away from that face is beyond me. I wouldn't work anywhere if he couldn't go out the door with me everyday. What a cutie!

"Watch sucker! You car detailin' fool!" Now you need to get you a "chest" to put all that gear in!

That's the love perch! It was there when I moved in and I never took it down. Hey, I'm a bachelor! I guess I could at least paint it a different color. It doesn't match anything in the house!

C'mon you big, burly guys, you can post pictures of you cats. I promise you won't get banned from the man table! Here's my two. First there's Big Pu$$y. So named because my little girl cat takes whatever food I give him and he won't put up a fight even though he's twice her size. Oh, and I'm a Soprano's fan too! With his "game face" on, waiting for the game... Leaving the vet's after his checkup. I love his Godzilla eyes! Then there's Smokey, the queen of the house... She loves her some fried chicken wings!

I post a thread and go out for a day full of work and you all have a field day! VG, whip me, spank me, make me your cabana boy! I've already given my body to Vette Girl. You'll need to fight her for it! Make sure you shoot a post it note to Jason about that! :lol: Exactly what I was shooting for.

There are plenty of post that show what Adam's products can do for the exterior of the car, but what about the interior? That same quality that goes into the products that make the outside "bling" also goes into the interior products. Thanks to Adam's Leather and Interior Cleaner, you too can have that bling! As you can see by the photos below, the interior can pop too. I'm not one who is into too much interior bling, just enough to make it stand out a tad. Notice how lustrous the leather looks after one wipe down with minimal effort (unlike other cleaners that I have used). Now for the photos! Give it a try. You'll love how this stuff goes on and how much dirt it removes! The Junkman

The halogen lights that you find at hardware stores are excellent for seeing scratches. The key to finding them though is to look at the car in multiple light sources, as well as from different angles when using those sources. I have also found that going to a DIY car wash (preferably a newer one), that has those huge bay lights will also reviel any hidden swils or scratches that may be trying to hide.

That picture is worth another thousand words!

They are not expensive when you realize how effective they are and the fact that they protect your paint the way they do. After sinking as much money into these cars as we do, that price is a drop in the bucket. However, to a normal Joe who doesn't understand the way that they work, they seem pricey at best. Now that I am informed, that price pays for itself after the first wash! I hope more guys realize the effectiveness of these buckets and save their paint by buying two!

I only have the new pads so someone else will have to chime in with their opinion of the old.

Tough! Okay! I spent time down there when I was on my WestPac tour in the Marines back in '85. Tough. Yep, that's how I would describe it!

I would still recommend the two bucket system. I was using two buckets and still managed to get all that grit in my wash bucket. Imagine how much dirt would have been in that bucket if it was the only one I used. Now you need to give Adam's a call and see which starter package they have that will get that paint back where it belongs. It ain't easy maintaining the paint on a dark colored car. As a matter of fact, it is a labor of love.

Well, there's one thing that is true about our work history. We have definitely ran the gauntlet of job opportunities!

Too bad you're not closer. I'd love to bust out a quarter-panel full of swirls just to show you how easy it is!

Hey Rich, I used a Flex orbital and the amount of pressure that you apply with that monster is not much. Unlike the PC, it will throw you across the car before it will bog down. Since it is a orbital polisher, it won't burn the paint even if you do stop in one place as long as you don't get crazy with it. You may need to get a more aggressive compound if your swirls are really bad but I would try the Flex first. That thing is like the PC on steroids. It definitely cut my work time in half.

That's where I kept my .60 cal. Or if you really made me mad, my .50 cal!

Welcome Kim! How do I get a job at the Australian branch of Adam's Polishes?! Nice duty!

...because it will make your shine go deep. What you are looking at is the rear quarter-panel of my 2001 Corvette Coupe. Here's the kicker. There is no wax on this section of the car yet. I went around the car and hit spots where swirls and scratches had developed from just driving the car. What a lot of folks don't understand is that if you touch the paint with the slightest amount of dust on the car, you grind that dust into the paint and this starts the swirl and scratch process. If you drive your car with any frequency, this is just the nature of the beast. However, there is a solution to get rid of those nasty imperfections. That being the Adam's Swirl and Haze remover. I got these results with one pass in each area with a white pad and my Flex orbital buffer. It took about 3 minutes in each section that I hit (keep in mind that my paint is already in good condition because of the methods that I use to wash and wax it). One section were I started waxing it immediately got deeper but I'm saving that for my video series that I doing on Adam's products. I wanted to show this, just to give you an idea of what your paint can look like. The color of my paint is Navy Blue Metallic but you can see how it does an excellent job at reflecting the Kentucky fall season. Notice that the paint's reflection rivals the reflection off the hatch glass (upper left-hand corner). Deep my fellow detailers..... deeeeeeeeeeeeep. The Junkman

Man, more guys need to consider this bucket. If common sense doesn't sell it, those pictures should. I washed my car today and had the same results. No wonder my paint looked like crap the day I finally decided to do something about it.

Yea, I've got bills older than some of these guys!