Favorite Non-Detailing Tool Used For Detailing

[boilers38]

Saw a similar thread somewhere else and figured I'd ask on here.

 

What are your favorite non-detailing tools that you like using for detailing?

[stirthepot]

air compressor for blowing dust out of the interior

Edited August 2, 2013 by stirthepot

[THE Mook]

I had to bite the bullet and get some wireless over ear headphones. Went with Klipsch.

 

Holy Moly are they KILLER!

[stirthepot]

I had to bite the bullet and get some wireless over ear headphones. Went with Klipsch.

Holy Moly are they KILLER!

 

Thanks for the idea, I have wireless noise canceling ones from Parrot, never thought of using them when detailing.

[Ricky Bobby]

I use this as my Master Blaster.

 

 

65 cc, 3.9 hp, 236 mph.  Doubles as a finisher for my landscaping duties of my 2 acres that I cut with my 52" Scag walk behind mower every week.  Go around the cars once with that, and its off to the Detail spray and drying towel!  Also works great on the engine bay, after I rinse off all APC I step on a small ladder and shoot the air down to blast out the standing water in the engine bay

[THE Mook]

I use this as my Master Blaster.

 

 

65 cc, 3.9 hp, 236 mph.  Doubles as a finisher for my landscaping duties of my 2 acres that I cut with my 52" Scag walk behind mower every week.  Go around the cars once with that, and its off to the Detail spray and drying towel!  Also works great on the engine bay, after I rinse off all APC I step on a small ladder and shoot the air down to blast out the standing water in the engine bay

 

Does that shoot oil out of the spout?  I know some of those babies do.

 

I JUST picked up a pretty killer Headlamp at Home Depot a couple weeks back.  $15 and I can now see the car's soul.

[Ricky Bobby]

I'm sure some older, not well maintained ones  or ones that run way too much 2 cycle oil might, but I've been using this particular model RedMax for 10 years now, used to use them when I was in the business, then when I bought my house last year I bought a brand new one for my property.  Doesn't shoot any oil mist, spit, nothing.  I blow leaves, dirt, grass off of myself after working outside, no problems there either, so I'd say it gets the "stamp of approval".  You should have seen my wife's face the first time I told her "I was washing her car and cleaning the engine" and then 30 minutes later she hears the blower going, she runs out like "I thought you were cleaning my car not cutting the grass!"

 

If you look at the hole on the rear of the red piece that looks like a square, that covers the exhaust for the carb/engine, I'd assume if any oil was being "spit" it would be out of there.  But as long as you're mixed a proper 50:1 mix I don't think you would actually blow out oil, unless you purposely increased the mixture or were so far off that the engine couldn't combust the fuel/oil mix in the tank and blew out the excess unburnt oil.  Then we'd be talking major issues on a $500 piece of equipment LOL

[IrishCurse]

The big concern is non-filtered air depositing dirt onto the finish before polishing/finishing work begins as well. But people have used them forever...

[afmilboy02]

I have used mine just fine with no issues and sometimes I even use my Bostich pancake compressor to get into really small places if needed without issues but I can see how some would back away from this.

[Ricky Bobby]

Ohhhh, never thought of a blow gun used with an air compressor, that's a good idea too.  As long as its an oil-less compressor even better!

[Feets31]

[Feets31]

Of course you put Adams Products in the contraption above. 

[Doug123]

 I like the foam tip makeup applicators for cleaning the fuzzy lining that touches the outside of the window glass.  When they get gunk down in them, raising and lowering the window puts quick streaks in the window.  A little APC on one and slide it in on the glass , and the rub back and forth just before washing, and it cleans them up nicely.

[Black out - Anthony]

and I will soon try woolies

[Whitlock]

I've been using those wooden paint stirrers from Lowe's wrapped in a microfiber towel to get to really super hard to reach areas.

Been working great!

[mc2hill]

I've been using those wooden paint stirrers from Lowe's wrapped in a microfiber towel to get to really super hard to reach areas.

Been working great!

 

Excellent tip David!  I use craft/popsicle sticks for smaller spaces.

[PT3]

I get gloves from my wife (works at a surgery center in the materials dept), I get medical masks (when dust is too much and I'm a little under the weather with a sore throat) from her, I get my foam block applicators from the 2x2' packing foam (egg carton style) she brings home from work (i have tons), she brings me long q-tip swabs, wooden with cotton on one end, but Mook already beat me to my primary non-detailing tool that gets the job done faster and helps me focus -

 

My stereo in my garage.

 

I have a 1000 sf detached double garage that I have to fill with everything from old school Rush, to Chimaira and Inhale/Exhale while I detail. Without that, the job would NEVER get finished right.

 

+1 on the music.

Nice! Loving the Chimaera! Add a side of Slipknot...Slayer....Lamb of God...Pantera....Shadows Fall....Skrillex and deadmau5.