Wow that is a surprise. May I know when was the price quoted? And what what size of car the price is referring to?

If the price still remains the same then I think not bad an offer, for a place that gives so much luxury feel to the walk in customer. The photo of the waiting lounge seem very comfortable and impressive too.

By diffuser you mean your aircon vent?

That is strange. My cheap PERMA GLASS clay which you can buy from AEON nowadays with less than RM30 does not suffer from this problem.
Do reveal this issue to the seller. It could be a defective product. Or maybe the seller getting a counterfeit product but even he/she does not realize that.
With 3M I expect tip top quality. Never heard of such issue with 3M clay.

If you accidentally spray some WD40 or some degreaser on clay then yes it can dissolve the clay. But I think you did not do this.

What exactly they had swept from you?

This post has been edited by scoutfai: Mar 7 2014, 10:22 PM

Million thanks to you bro. Great job you done on the black car. You achieved that with this Shine Mate ERO600?

Thanks so much again for still remember my request.

Does anyone knows what are the differences being air purifier, ionizer, ozone generator, and dehumidifier?
What each one can do and cannot do?

I think ozone generator purpose is to kill bacteria. Good for car that is already grows germ I guess.

Recognize you from other forum.
Hard core detailer spotted.

Interested but at the end can pull the trigger or not depend on the price.
Mind sharing your plan source of purchase and expected price?

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

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 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

Still remember where or who you bought it from?

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.

@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

But the Duragloss Enviroshield Coating only last up to 2 years (mean could be less) according to Duragloss official website oh.
Doesn't seem like attractive enough in term of durability.

Can't deny on the price point it is indeed very cost effective.
You tried before already? Malaysia weather is always a worst case scenario test for any kind of coating.

Any thought anyone?

The ultimate idiot proof paint care guide for anyone new into this hobby:

Meguiar's 5 steps paint care cycle!http://www.meguiarsonline.com/forums/showthread.php?37320-Meguiar-s-5-Step-Paint-Care-Cycle-Updated!

This post has been edited by scoutfai: Apr 7 2014, 08:07 AM

That's the easiest way of explaining and the products show there readily available to the person who asks the question mah
If not after he see the video and read the thread, I'm sure his next question is "where to get the stuff"
then if our reply is "purchase from USA/Europe, with shipping fee equals to product price itself", then people get scared and run away from this hobby already
Let him slowly get both of his foot wet first Then when he not satisfy with Meguiar's which is available locally, we poison him with USA/Europe stuff.