I think <rm1100 abit hard, how many r interest? Try to nego witn the rupes agent lo

Don't feel like the agent will entertain u leh if u r referring to Malaysia official agent.

This post has been edited by scoutfai: Mar 26 2014, 12:58 PM

yo guys. anyone can intro some MF towels for Quik detail and Quik Wax? where the price is not so expansive le...

anyone had use the SONAX - Microfibre Ultra Fine before?

Im interested if the price is attractive enough.
Alternatively do u wanna get Flex? Should be cheaper than Rupes i believe

The Flex XC3401 is cheaper? I'm interested.

Anyone knows what is the current average market price for IPA 99% concentration? in big volume pack, like for instance 1 liter, 2 liters, etc.

Rm15-25 depend location

RM15-25 is for how many liter?

Ok for those who are living on a budget and wish to experience the fun of big throw machine, I found the following Thailand seller. But he does not sell Rupes, he sells a China made Rupes copy. 21mm throw.
Price, after conversion, is like RM500+.

Have a look. And use Google Translate. The website has a tendency of fail to load. Just keep refreshing, and try on other time in a day.

http://www.thaiwashercarclub.com/forum/ind...p?topic=32043.0

From the youtube video comment, when a USA guy asks him does he ships to USA, he replied he ships worldwide. So I think ship to Malaysia shouldn't be a problem unless he changes his shipping policy.

As far as I know (if I am not wrong), this China copy Rupes is using 5/16" thread. So compare to Rupes Bigfoot LHR21ES where you can only use the proprietary 6" and 5" backing plate, this one you can just use any backing plate. Of course do expect vibration when you change plate.

This particular China copy Rupes is from Ansi Auto company, website here:
http://www.ansiauto.com/showpro.asp?ArticleID=7487

There is another one called MaxShine, but not carry by this seller. From look alone I feel the Maxshine is better built than the Ansi Auto. But I haven able to find which Thailand seller carries this.
http://www.maxshinechina.com/product_show....lassid=25&id=83
Remark: MaxShine is the manufacturer of Griot's Garage 6" DA polisher.

This post has been edited by scoutfai: Mar 30 2014, 02:51 PM

I got my 99.9% 2.5L container for RM50. And btw, I think the xx% is not 'concentration'....it's xx% purity...correct me please....

Still remember where or who you bought it from?

Yeah...our resident chemical engineer in the Kakis....

Thanks, contacted the guy (believe is him). Meeting him soon.
Regarding the meaning of the %, just did some search and it should means purity, which means alcohol by volume. In the case of drinking beverage, it means number of millilitres of pure ethanol present in 100 millilitres of solution at 20 °C. Guess we can simply replace the ethanol in this definition to propanol.

hmmm... % can means both purity or concentration (v/v). Most of the time purity is used for the stock solution whereas concentration is used when we dilute the stock solution.
So if you were to buy a new chemical such as isopropanol from manufacturer/distributor, mostly it means purity.
There are many grades of chemicals. Commonly, industrial grade not so pure, might have some impurities such as trace metal elements in it. Whereas analytical grade will be better as the spec of the metal impurities is much more tighter than industrial grade.

Industrial grade IPA mostly used for cleaning purpose, but for some industrial cleaning, they even use electronic grade IPA.
99% IPA (industrial grade) is good enough for average cleaning.
Correct me if I were wrong.

The higher the % purity of the IPA, the lesser 'foreign content' in it and would leave lesser stuffs behind when it evaporate. Which one to get would depend on how anal and what you're trying to achieve. Unless you're cleaning *very* sensitive electronics, in general, anything above 75% purity is more than good enough already.

Well in lyn we can get around 99% pure ipa for a farely cheap price. That's the reason I mentioned the %purity here. no need to be too concern about the industrial grade ipa unless it is recycled ipa.

@Waregem is right about the % can mean both purity or concentration when it is just barely labelled in % without description.
Concentration in chemistry is a term defined as the ratio of quantity of constituent to total volume of mixture.
It can be expressed via various mathematical formula, and all equally mean concentration. Eg volume concentration, molar concentration (molarity), mass concentration, number concentration.
Being a quantity divided by volume, in SI unit, volume unit = m^3, so when volume concentration is interested, m^3 / m^3 which yields unity (1, i.e. dimensionless), then it will become just plank decimal figure, or fraction, and hence can always be expressed as %.

Purity, which has formula mass of constituent divided by mass of total mixture, also is dimensionless, also can be expressed as %, but is using mass as the calculating means.

Volume concentration (or volume fraction) should not be directly equals to Purity (mass fraction), though both are in %. This is because volume of different constituent with same mass does not occupy same volume in liquid state, which is due to their molecule geometry. And where you have a liquid A in volume X, liquid B in volume Y, it does not necessary means when liquid A poured and mixed into liquid B in a container, the total volume is X + Y. Because molecule of liquid A might interact physically (not chemically) with molecule from liquid B, the cavity between molecules of liquid B itself might be occupied by smaller molecule from liquid A. This can causes the total volume less than X+Y. But the mass, being undiminishable due to Law of Conservation of Mass, will remains mass liquid A + mass liquid B.

The industry should already have a well established convention on whether the % figure printed on the label of a IPA bottle means purity or volume concentration. Nevertheless, since all drinking beverage has the % means volume concentration or more appropriately alcohol by volume (how many milliliter of ethanol in 100 milliliter of solution), I would deduct that the non-drinking purpose IPA bottle label should mean volume concentration too.

Reference: My sad old SPM chemistry memory. My loyal best gay friend Google. My rusted yet and barely functioning brain.

This post has been edited by scoutfai: Apr 5 2014, 10:06 AM

Question to all. Regarding masking tape.
In western country, most of the detailer use 3M automotive masking tape, which typically looks like this:



Sometime they also will use 3M painter masking tape, which looks like this:



The 2nd one (blue color) I have seen them being sold in Ace Hardware. But damn expensive like RM30+ per unit.
The 1st one (black color) I have never seen them any where in store or hardware shop.

1) Do you guys use these kind of masking tape only?
2) If you don't, what masking tape you use? normal hardware shop RM5 masking tape? Will it leave glue residue on your surface?
3) Do you know a cheaper place to buy these 3M masking tape (other than Ace hardware).

This post has been edited by scoutfai: Apr 5 2014, 10:24 AM

interesting read found on nanoarmor.com.my

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[SIZE=7] So got this type of hardness one ar?

Ha, go to the shop and test first?

If it works as intended and marketed, no need to work for rest of life ady. Sell to US and EU.


By the way, you guys should try Prima Hydro Max, as well as new stuffs from Duragloss, the Enviroshield Coating.

This post has been edited by ZeroSP: Apr 5 2014, 06:21 PM